Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 2 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 3 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 4 | Painter Nadezda Petrovic made one of her most significant paintings after volunteering at the military hospital during the first world war . |
| 5 | The ‘ great and the good in serried ranks ’ at the Royal College of Physicians heard clinicians from different specialties confront managers with the problems of rationing at the clinical interface . |
| 6 | I think we have got to sort out these problems of restructuring at the same time as those of market and state regulation . |
| 7 | If your lounge is equipped with batteries of spot-lamps and other sophisticated facilities , you could spend an hour or so trying out all kinds of variations before arriving at the best effect . |
| 8 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 9 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 10 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 11 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 12 | But bureaucratic and constitutional obstacles may prevent South African athletes from competing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics , even if political objections are soon lifted . |
| 13 | Although in Burmah Oil there was a reluctance to accept the " class " arguments without looking at the actual contents of the documents in question , subsequent cases have accepted class arguments without question . |
| 14 | Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused . |
| 15 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 16 | By providing several columns for the estimates , the stages in arriving at the final budget and any changes of mind during the working stages of the project , can be recorded . |
| 17 | Make a point of visiting friends with children before starting at the mother-and-toddler group , so she has a chance to widen her circle before meeting more children and being overwhelmed . |
| 18 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 19 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |