Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph . |
| 2 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the infancy stories about Jesus as recorded by both Matthew and Luke . |
| 3 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 4 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 5 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 6 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 7 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 8 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 9 | Every day , almost my first act is to glance at the hills near my home . |
| 10 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 11 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 12 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 13 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 14 | The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years . |
| 15 | Her routine was to rise at a quarter past seven , bath , take a light breakfast and catch an omnibus into the City . |
| 16 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 17 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 18 | The Wanless way out of trouble is to look at the detail . |
| 19 | If your strategy is to start at the starboard end of the line and carry on sailing on starboard tack , the situation is as illustrated in Diagram 1 . |
| 20 | A crude but effective method is to look at the rider 's backside and pick a horse with one to match ! |
| 21 | I have great difficulty in picking them up with binoculars , but with × 7 I find that the best method is to start at the Delta-Epsilon pair and then proceed to Lambda ( 3.8 ) ; M12 forms a triangle with Lambda and Epsilon . |
| 22 | The secret 's to start at the bottom and work up . |
| 23 | My idea of good style is to arrive at the stance with a minimum of runners . |
| 24 | The new musical was to open at the Palace Theatre , Manchester , for three weeks , before moving to the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in London 's West End . |
| 25 | The Liverpool keeper 's one big mistake was to flap at a Wallace cross , allowing Cantona to head into a empty net and give Leeds a 4-2 advantage with a couple of minutes left . |
| 26 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 27 | it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people . |
| 28 | One of the best — and easiest ways to obtain information is to LOOK AT THE LABEL . |
| 29 | Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up . |
| 30 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |