Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 3 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 4 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 5 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 6 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 7 | His/her only consolation may be that most of his/her friends will soon be those who are failing at about the same level as he/she is . |
| 8 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 9 | The p0·75 and p0·875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 10 | The p0.75 and p0.875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 11 | This can already be guessed at from the demonic intensity of his most famous recordings , and it is confirmed by first-hand reports . |
| 12 | It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course . |
| 13 | Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view . |
| 14 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 15 | This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible . |
| 16 | A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have . |
| 17 | Areas to be looked at in the short term are : |
| 18 | ‘ I feel that any threatened site , be it on land or not , should be looked at in the same way : that is , will excavating this site advance our knowledge of history in a significant way ? |
| 19 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 20 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Blood samples for assay of the aminoglycoside concentration should be taken at around the third or fourth dose , when the steady state has been reached . |
| 22 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 23 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 24 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 25 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 26 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 27 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 28 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 29 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 30 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |