Example sentences of "[prep] a glance at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British National Bibliography Research Fund , established in 1975 , includes amongst its aims the promotion of research into the use of books and into reading habits , and has achieved an impact beyond its modest resources — as a glance at the bibliography of this book will show . |
| 2 | Here again , as with discourse type and discourse parts , there are often quite everyday names for functions ( as a glance at the contents page of any functional course will reveal ) , so there is no need to burden students with any metalanguage from the theory of discourse analysis . |
| 3 | And these are very extensive as a glance at the examination syllabuses will reveal — including mathematical , statistical and financial techniques , economics and accounts , probability and statistics , institutional investment theory and the mathematics of finance . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll come with you , ’ said Charles , with a glance at the clock . |
| 5 | Pilots fell in love with the craft too ; some were eager to refresh their memories with a glance at the Meteor ; s cockpit . |
| 6 | You can tell her priorities from a glance at the obituary columns . |
| 7 | The reason for its traditional importance as a trading centre is obvious from a glance at the map . |
| 8 | Plumpton climbed into his bus without a glance at the damage and drove off . |
| 9 | We swept over the surface of the planet without a glance at the perceptor screens , for Vadinamia 's surface is of no account . |
| 10 | They backed the horse between the traces and untied her hobble without a glance at the Horsey townsfolk who watched them from a very great distance . |
| 11 | These aesthetic thoughts will have been overcome by a glance at the grass , the playing surface . |
| 12 | If there were any ambiguity as to the meaning of the section — and in my judgment there is not — it would be resolved by a glance at the Report of the Committee on the Age of Majority ( 1967 ) ( Cmnd. 3342 ) ( ‘ the Latey Report ’ ) to see what was the mischief which the section was intended to remedy . |