Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective . |
| 2 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 3 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 4 | Where standard discussions of the self talk about memory and unity , brain transplants , the rational agent acting on his beliefs and desires , or the self in its public aspect as citizen , here the self is looked at in the context of the past history of a person , unconscious or fantasy relationships with others , the importance of feelings , or the body . |
| 5 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 6 | Each covenant is looked at in the light of the people , the business or the profession and all the circumstances involved . |
| 7 | Account men make it their business to learn everything they can about the client 's product and how it compares with others on the market , and a strategy is arrived at with the help of the researchers and planners , and sometimes with the creative team on the writing and art side . |
| 8 | The Civil Justice Review recommended that the suggestion of Lord Donaldson M.R. That the subject be looked at in the round be taken up . |
| 9 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 10 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 11 | Sometimes the similarity is hinted at in the question itself ; for example , you may have looked at another passage involving characterisation and this will guide you in looking at this one . |
| 12 | The same kind of problem arises if the system is looked at from the angle of the natural sciences . |
| 13 | The problem is hinted at in the uneasy combination of the two descriptive terms , one signifying natural complexity and even contrariness , the other , mechanical order and simplicity . |
| 14 | But when the problem is looked at from the miners ' point of view a rather different history comes into view . |
| 15 | Sexual deviance is hinted at in the use of the term ‘ bachelor ’ which manages both to describe and to cast doubts on the celibate state of the priest , and the general honesty of Catholic priests is challenged by branding Murphy as a liar . |
| 16 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |