Example sentences of "[to-vb] at a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 2 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |
| 3 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 4 | Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years . |
| 5 | Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up . |
| 6 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 7 | He claimed that the government was forcing Petrobrás to run at a loss in order to keep petrol prices and thus inflation down . |
| 8 | Richard Rolle 's at times flamboyant attempt to arrive at a form of living which would express his compulsive and impulsive drive towards personal realisation of the love of God , brought the circumstances of his life into prominence . |
| 9 | Although in trying to arrive at a definition of schizophrenia much emphasis has been placed on the disturbances that are found in cognitive functioning ( perception , thinking , and attention ) , abnormal emotional response is almost universal . |
| 10 | Continuing , this charming road , my second favourite in all Scotland , now turns inland to avoid the high ground overlooking Plockton , and after a new byroad leaves on the right , makes a long detour , passing a pleasant inland loch , to arrive at a T-junction at Duirinish , the left fork heading for Kyle of Lochalsh , that on the right being a no-through-road to Plockton . |
| 11 | To arrive at a theory by reasoning . |
| 12 | But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement . |
| 13 | Facing forward again , I touched the jewel again , seeming to brush at a lock of hair . |
| 14 | His header from inside the six-yard box was somehow parried and then gathered by Kopke , to hint at a night of frustration for Andy Roxburgh 's team . |
| 15 | For the criticality to occur at an angle of incidence less than 90° , the shear velocity in the solid must be greater than the dilatational velocity in the coupling liquid . |