Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he said erm he thought people might be less willing to speak at the meeting if they knew it was being recorded , which seems entirely reasonable . |
| 2 | Thank you Chair , er , obviously this comes at the end of er , of er , a series of reports where we 've put back additional or complementary revenues and the last item , number T , talked about a twenty thousand capital contribution , er , the budget will bring all this together , and if I could just add one erm , update on the first page , where paragraph three , and talk about the provision resource allocation to this Committee being a reduction of fifty thousand from the community based budget . |
| 3 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 4 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |
| 5 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 6 | Some theories , especially those pitched at the level of the international system , refuse to enquire what the human actors have in their heads . |
| 7 | You are only obliged to pay at the London venue . |
| 8 | WITH MILLIONS of spotty young upstarts being so alarmingly eager to please at the moment , I guess that the slightly askew likes of Strangelove should be welcomed with open charms . |
| 9 | She was still sufficiently girlish to blush at the formula compliment . |
| 10 | Angelica 's eyes were just visible staring at the wall , unblinking . |
| 11 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 12 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 13 | Not only does this mean that you are more likely to get at the truth , but it is also likely to be more fruitful for whatever purpose you have in mind . |
| 14 | Er and erm it 's difficult for people to maintain er not only as I say , but in their lifestyle over a particular period of time , so you could be more likely to get at the truth by this method , than by sending out questionnaires . |
| 15 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 16 | Rather than trace individual papers in detail , it is more useful to look at the development of particular classes of paper . |
| 17 | In the context of nurses and health visitors returning to work it might be more useful to look at the ways in which regrading affects your application and appointment , and to provide you with general advice on what to expect from employers in due course . |
| 18 | However , support mechanisms for information seeking in the online environment , such as shelf browsing and more sophisticated contextual subject access features , could encourage the searcher to use the catalogue and ultimately lead to more effective searching at the shelves . |
| 19 | If we wish to discuss changes in punishment it is perhaps more helpful to look at the percentage of those found guilty receiving different types of sentence . |
| 20 | This makes it all the more important to arrive at the interview well prepared . |
| 21 | And it was Silvia , not Ronni , who was the first to arrive and the more reluctant to leave at the end of each lesson . |
| 22 | Perhaps the scarcity is of trombonists keen to seek the front of the platform — it may be more appealing to lurk at the back , menacing one 's colleagues from behind . |
| 23 | With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred . |
| 24 | Seldom is anything genuinely new shown at the Earls Court venue , normally used more as a glorified car showroom by the manufacturers than as a showcase for forthcoming cars and innovative ideas . |
| 25 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 26 | SunSoft president Ed Zander was probably ill-advised suggesting at the announcement that serious changes would be made . |
| 27 | SunSoft president Ed Zander was probably ill-advised suggesting at the announcement that serious changes would be made . |
| 28 | It is also useful to look at the bibliography or index to see what it includes and what it misses out . |
| 29 | At Ephesos , as in Rome , baths were constructed in various parts of the city , notably those built at the Vedius gymnasium , ( mid-second century A.D. ) , the immense complex down at the harbour ( second century A.D ) and the smaller Scholastikia Baths , enlarged in the fourth century A.D. and situated on the marble sacred street . |
| 30 | As I said earlier , we are also able to look at the successes being achieved by other trust status hospitals elsewhere . |