Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 2 | Archaeologists and historians studying the period since writing has been in use — the last few thousand years — examine different types of evidence , although they overlap at many points . |
| 3 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 4 | We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies . |
| 5 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 6 | Must be pretty tough for them when they look at other lasses . ’ |
| 7 | Though they stay at good hotels ( $2,150 a year ) , Britons prefer not to travel abroad . |
| 8 | Horseshoe crabs are seldom seen , for they live at considerable depths , some in Southeast Asian waters , others in the seas along the North Atlantic coast of America . |
| 9 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 10 | Bar-code-reading ‘ wands ’ will check in the questionnaires as they arrive at various offices . |
| 11 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 12 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 13 | They represent the product of a number of other factors as well , including political , economic , and demographic ones as they intersect at particular moments in history ( see Howe , this volume ) . |
| 14 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 15 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |