Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 2 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 3 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 4 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 5 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 6 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 7 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |
| 8 | After a brief stay there , we move south-west into the ubiquitous rural ocean until we arrive at a remarkable experimental settlement just off the main road between Kharkov and Poltava . |
| 9 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 10 | If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama . |
| 11 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 12 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 13 | We 've all seen it when you arrive at a new prison . |
| 14 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 15 | As long as you go at a slow , steady pace , the job can be done and you none the wiser . |
| 16 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |