Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Purposive sampling , for example , could not be effectively done in advance of interviewing , since significant others could only be guessed at without the informant furnishing more detailed information .
2 First , a rational plan of action can only be arrived at after the patient 's problems have been identified .
3 There is a necessary compromise which can only be arrived at in the context of a particular system .
4 This can already be guessed at from the demonic intensity of his most famous recordings , and it is confirmed by first-hand reports .
5 This is of course very much smaller than the comparative figure for the previous year of £321,715 , but it should also be looked at in the context of the budget for 1991–92 which had predicted a loss of £117,000 .
6 For this the sore is gently scraped and any fluid that exudes can then be looked at under the microscope .
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