Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This course is designed to produce graduates conversant with the techniques of physics and chemistry and armed with the necessary mathematical skill to work effectively at the chemical/physical interface . |
| 2 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 3 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 4 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 5 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 6 | But the new financing structure collapsed under them and , as the cultural energy build up during the 1939–45 period became depleted , these filmmakers were only occasionally to work again at the same level of intensity . |
| 7 | Indeed in cases where such companies had a vital stake , as with the British South Africa Union Minière in Zaire they were seen to behave badly at the very point at which their host countries became independent . |
| 8 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 9 | She smiled ruefully , then continued to wave frantically at the approaching train . |
| 10 | Sarah Bamfield seized on a loose ball and swung the ball across the D for Lucy Youngs to poke home at the far post . |
| 11 | She turned to smile benevolently at the scurrying passengers behind her . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ . |
| 13 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 14 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 15 | People do n't seem to moan on but tend to look more at the positive angles . |
| 16 | In this way , the mind is taught and instructed to look inwardly at the spiritual nature [ of things ] , towards the secret power that is hidden in everything and works in everything in an incomprehensible way . |
| 17 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 18 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 19 | Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room , but we did n't find anything important . ’ |
| 20 | If each overlay were drawn on transparent paper then a light table could be used to allow the viewer to look simultaneously at the spatial distribution of each attribute and to pick out by eye the areas of interest . |
| 21 | The door was opened almost immediately by a tiny grey-haired woman , who looked past Collins to stare hard at the two strangers standing behind him . |
| 22 | Before looking more closely at the reasons why children come into care , and at the numbers involved , it is necessary to look briefly at the main legislation in this field and the powers and duties of the child care service . |
| 23 | As he folded the screen she stepped forward to look closely at the adjacent panel . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 25 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 26 | I hope that this series of articles may have encouraged you to look again at the various stitch patterns which your machine can produce . |
| 27 | This it does by turning away in a deliberate manner and refusing to look again at the glowering face . |
| 28 | Sir if I could complete the er arithmetic , I think it would be helpful , if you were to look again at the single page note that was handed on this morning . |
| 29 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 30 | In order to deal effectively at the front line of enquiries it is essential that these are dealt with by experienced and capable staff at the Administrative Assistant level . |