Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 2 | The opening chapter uses a slightly different method and looks at the greatest variable in improving — namely ourselves , since the way we approach and react to learning greatly affects the end result . |
| 3 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 4 | This month Cathy Bryan looks at the best buys in sandpits and paddling pools |
| 5 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Mum looks at the proffered phone in a slightly puzzled way . |
| 7 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 8 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |
| 9 | It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee . |
| 10 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 11 | Olivine , for instance , is the most unstable mineral in the weathering series and crystallizes at the highest temperature in the reaction series . |
| 12 | While making no overt concessions , he told lawyers and judges at the Middle Temple in London that discussions between a proposed advisory committee , the Law Society and senior judges ‘ may lead to different conclusions for different types of case , and most important of all , our conclusions may change in the light of experience ’ . |
| 13 | In 1883 she and Ann won the consolation doubles at the Northern Championships in Manchester . |
| 14 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 15 | Czeslaw Milosz , a great poet and the author of one of the classics of anti-totalitarian literature , ‘ The Captive Mind ’ , openly rebels at the heroic image in which he and his peers are cast by their western admirers . |
| 16 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 17 | The difference between these tax bases arises at the practical level in that some things are more easily measured as a stock than as a flow , for example the value of a painting . |