Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may be forgiven for thinking at this stage that , given the weaknesses in much project work , the solution would be to abandon it altogether . |
| 2 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 3 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 4 | The expert 's liability in his primary profession is considered by looking at successful actions against members of the same profession in cases where the duty is owed to one party only : for instance , where a valuation is prepared for a buyer and not both buyer and seller . |
| 5 | It is a view I believe which is held by everyone connected with policing at local level and additionally , the continuation of the tripartite system with its essential checks and balances on the activities of the three parties involved and My Lords that is the real importance and value of the tripartite system that depends on the local authorities being seen to be in the driving seat . |
| 6 | In the end I simply did what I had done in writing at full length but I compressed the whole into the 5000-word stipulated maximum length . |
| 7 | This concept is then expanded by looking at specific areas within the personnel function which can benefit from this approach , and the various computer solutions to these requirements are reviewed . |
| 8 | Sorry , September and really they were n't bothered about selling at that time although they always said if the right offer comes along |
| 9 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 10 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 11 | After landing , the aircraft was found to have split fabric and extensive minor damage to the wings , which could only be attributed to overstressing at high speed . |
| 12 | They are doing work which every compositor is called upon to do at some time or another , that is plain composition , " but he added that the men do " the many operations that go to make up the comp 's calling " . |
| 13 | She will not be called upon to contribute at this time . ’ |
| 14 | some maths , based on looking at simple statistics |
| 15 | We can get an idea of how they might have breathed by looking at modern fish . |
| 16 | Were there species adapted for living at particular depths ? |
| 17 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 18 | Further openings are to be found in teaching at various levels and , in addition , biologists are well qualified to take up further training in areas such as production management and scientific information services . |
| 19 | Now turn to the sleeve material which has to be sealed from fraying at each end . |
| 20 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 21 | The data collected allow the medical school to calculate the time actually spent on teaching at each site . |
| 22 | Again , people in other religions may likewise have had ( though for myself as a westerner I find the most to be gained through looking at western religion ) . |
| 23 | Sartre records that by 1920–21 , the personal predicament of Nizan 's father had become so desperate that he had taken to disappearing at frequent intervals from the family home at night , disappearances which Sartre interprets as " attempted suicides " . |
| 24 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 25 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 26 | LABOUR big guns may be barred from speaking at this month 's party conference because of a power struggle inside the party . |
| 27 | Consequently , the study of the distribution of power should be analysed by looking at actual decisions and finding out which person(s) or group(s) was ( were ) most responsible for shaping the final outcome of the decision-making process . |
| 28 | Acupuncture conceives of a kind of ‘ bioenergy ’ , which flows along channels in the body and can be manipulated by acting at particular points on those channels ( by needles , heat or pressure ) . |
| 29 | Even more insulation is given by looking at all things from the transcendent level , for then each event is looked at as if it is seen through coloured lenses that transfigure it and place it in another dimension and time . |