Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | Its aim , according to Vice-President Al Gore , is to " ensure that environmental considerations are brought to bear at the earliest stages in the development of economic policy " . |
2 | Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part . |
3 | She could not bear to look at the fallen doll in white satin and tulle . |
4 | Students should be encouraged to look at the other information in the financial accounting system to see if it would be helpful for managers in terms of monitoring , planning or control . |
5 | Laura turned to look at the other woman in astonishment . |
6 | Sacheverell Sitwell , a young aesthete from England , had crossed the Channel to look at the new painting in post-war Paris with a view to putting on a comprehensive exhibition in London . |
7 | When one visits a gallery it is important to look at the great works in the context of their period . |
8 | The preceding section has emphasised the day-to-day actions in the money market , but it is also useful at this stage to look at the aggregate position in recent years which is shown in Table 6.2 . |
9 | Cabinet was to be asked to look at the probable growth in the economy , and the amount of tax revenue it wished to generate , and then decide what in total it could afford to spend . |
10 | To look at the black experience in Britain since 1979 is to expose the effects of Conservative policies at their harshest , with few if any palliative gestures to hide the stark reality of life for deprived minorities in the 1980s . |
11 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
12 | If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur . |
13 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
14 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
15 | In spite of these remarkably positive indicators , Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
16 | Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
17 | Gorbachev met with Yakovlev , Nazarbayev , Akayev and Yeltsin on Aug. 27 and called for the Union Treaty process to be renewed , threatening to resign at the Supreme Soviet in September if the uncontrolled dissolution of the Soviet Union continued . |
18 | This meant the Government would have less to announce at the unified Budget in November , when tax and spending plans will be unveiled together for the first time . |
19 | Overall this looks to be a group with the physical and mental resources needed to play at the top level in New Zealand . |
20 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
21 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
22 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
23 | Characteristically , Adam decided to stay at the best hotel in Dresden . |
24 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
25 | ‘ That depends , ’ Marianne purred silkily , and Shae was hard pressed not to shudder at the malicious pleasure in the other woman 's green eyes . |
26 | His impassive , fierce stare reminded her of an owl squatting on a fence post , watchful and ready to plunge at the first rustle in the undergrowth . |
27 | Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . |