Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The second-year economic history course looks at changes in the world economy between 1750 and 1914 while the second-year social history course studies world urbanisation from antiquity to the present day .
2 This Update looks at aspects of the new beginning , from an individual view of the validation process to an account of how new national units are developed .
3 Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference .
4 The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard .
5 Further work looks at links between the pattern of business development and family and community structure among Afro-Caribbeans and Cypriots in North London and Pakistanis in Birmingham .
6 Central News is a product aimed at students at the intermediate level and above .
7 Such a concept seemed at odds with the progressive and ameliorative spirit of the age .
8 For the third time this greatest of Scottish Protestant heroes , whose name has lived for four centuries as the architect of Scottish religious life ( not to say the strict bleakness of that life ) , whose statue in Edinburgh gazed balefully down on the meeting between pope and moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk in 1982 , and whose inordinately lofty statue in the Glasgow Necropolis lours at patients in the upper stories of the Royal Infirmary , made a strenuous effort not to return to his native country at all .
9 Preincubation was usually continued for a further 10 minutes , and then agonists were added to the suspensions and the change in cyclic AMP content recorded at intervals over the following 30 minutes .
10 The very low values of NO 2 observed at the end of autumn and the beginning of spring imply that the NO x reservoir is almost empty , with the remaining fraction lying at altitudes above the ozone depletion region .
11 In parallel with the fresh crusade directed at politicians in the present election run-up , the Fnac last week launched a F5m campaign aimed at young people , the section of the public the store group says is most discouraged by current book prices .
12 This project looks at aspects of the migrants ' housing experience , using aggregate statistics to establish general tenure patterns and interviews to recreate biographical histories .
13 ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK .
14 The survey looks at changes in the number of medical men in practice during this period , and at their career structures , training , qualifications , practices and appointments .
15 The front of the shop was open to the street , but large blocks of stone set at intervals across the threshold carried rebates for timber uprights , presumably to support the gable or perhaps an upper storey .
16 In this respect , the European tradition appeared at odds with the American one .
17 The Manual of Ornamental Fish is a fish disease handbook aimed at vets by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association at .
18 A further complicating factor is that English interference in BSL occurs at times under the guise of improving the English skills of deaf people , so that the interlanguage ( a variable form of signed English ) may be given a higher status than the original language .
19 If he , Neil , was content to leave the house unwatched by day , and to spend his time looking at rocks on the broch island , then I could stay indoors with a clear conscience , and wait for the rainstorm to pass .
20 Above his eyes a thick , prickly hedgerow jutted at right-angles to the bone .
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