Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter looks at the three major categories of organisation in the light of those considerations likely to prove most significant for surveyors : management authority of the participants , the raising and use of finance , the administrative burdens which will be created , the conduct of relations with outsiders and the settlement of disputes . |
| 2 | This chapter looks at the main academic and political perspectives on health and health care which have shaped the debate , and revolves around three broad areas of analysis . |
| 3 | The chapter looks at the formal regulatory approach as adopted in the UK and the US . |
| 4 | Though Alner has failed to finish on both occasions he has ridden Seven of Diamonds this season , the horse won at the two previous meetings on this afternoon 's course , when partnered by Malcolm Batters . |
| 5 | There had been a revolt in Alexandria and the Caliph 's army , Mowbray 's group amongst them , had massed outside the city : the air thick with the beat of their kettledrums , the wind snapping at the huge green banners , and the silver crescents on the standards dazzling in the scorching sunlight . |
| 6 | Research conducted at the Alister Hardy Research Centre suggests : a culturally mediated prejudice . |
| 7 | More than 1,000 YFC members took part in the 1992 competitions programme staged at the National Agricultural Centre and watched by the Princess Royal . |
| 8 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 9 | ‘ Then we had a Highway Code-cum-driving practice test and a 30-minute test on everything from dirt roads to motorways , which was partly an economy test driving at the maximum safe speed . |
| 10 | Top price in the dairy ring of £1,130 was paid for a choice calved Friesian heifer and a calved Ayrshire heifer sold at the second top price of £1,070 . |
| 11 | Preparing to test an underwater optical fibre cable joint on the 600kV DC test set at the new high voltage laboratory at Southampton University . |
| 12 | The girl started at the Royal High as an 11-year-old in 1986 . |
| 13 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 14 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 15 | The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog , Fimbra , may well fail to materialise . |
| 16 | In practice , however , the BBC knew that as its audience share fell , the case for a compulsory fee would become weaker and that getting the fee raised at the regular three-yearly review would be trickier ( no government was going to win votes by raising the licence fee , even during the years of monopoly ) . |
| 17 | As guests of the French government , they were the first British school group to learn at the 30,000 square metre , futuristic exhibition and learning centre — and did so entirely in French . |
| 18 | Far from receiving a discount the purchaser arriving at the average high street store which a bunch of fivers in most cases pays more for his new washing machine or bicycle because the retailer has factored into the pricing structure the credit card company 's fee ( which can range from one to four per cent ) . |
| 19 | He lingered for a moment sneering at the guilty red core that was revealed beneath the stucco of lime and sand . |
| 20 | As long as the differential remains at the present level incorporation can not be justified on fiscal grounds . |
| 21 | In Rome , the group stayed at the Venerable English College in Old rome , and at the college 's summer retreat , the Villa Palazzola , on the wooded slopes of Lake Albano , directly opposite Castel Gandolfo . |
| 22 | Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet . |
| 23 | I also found certain sections of the press grossly biased ; and when a representative of the Daily Express called at the New English Weekly office and asked for a copy of the relevant issue , I thought I might be involved in a libel action . |
| 24 | My poor old mother , and me sister finished at the same big house , servant there for them . |
| 25 | A new development called time-coding is in the process of revolutionising video editing at the advanced amateur level . |
| 26 | The community physiotherapist is part of the district physiotherapy service organized at the major local hospital , and the general practitioner has direct access to the service . |
| 27 | Evidence presented at the International Ornithological Congress in New Zealand has suggested that the " de-beaking " of chickens , widely used in the poultry industry , may not be as benign a practise as previously thought . |
| 28 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 29 | As Clune puts it : ‘ Being required to do anything and especially being required to do something specific can not match the effectiveness of internally motivated , adaptive behaviour directed at the same underlying end . ’ |
| 30 | The ultrasonic immersion method developed at the National Physical Laboratory uses the measurement of wave velocity on accurately made specimens with parallel sides . |