Example sentences of "marvel at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
| 2 | It was a time when children were encouraged to fantasize about machines and outer space rather than marvel at the open spaces where the deer and buffalo roamed . |
| 3 | I 'm not afraid of you , ’ and would marvel at the strength of her voice . |
| 4 | ‘ We all marvel at the Red Kite , ’ says Gareth , ‘ But we do n't marvel at the little beetles which are the reason it 's there . ’ |
| 5 | Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses . |
| 6 | Timid observers will marvel at the bravery of the men who dare descend into these black pits for enjoyment and adventure : their reward is a visit to a fantastic nether world the rest of us will never see . |
| 7 | And those who catch Lampi on occasional dates will marvel at the mixture of gut-wrenching string sounds and high-pitched synthesised treatments . |
| 8 | Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day . |
| 9 | On our popular , and well proven itinerary , you 'll visit PEKING where you can marvel at the Forbidden City and Imperial Palace , the Temple of Heaven , Ming Tombs and the world famous Pandas . |
| 10 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
| 11 | They will marvel at the Taj Mahal , by moonlight of course . |
| 12 | One can only marvel at the wisdom of the U.S. government in enabling the Freer to make itself over . |
| 13 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 14 | APPROACHING SOME of the more forbidding coasts of Scotland in a modern vessel , one must surely marvel at the temerity of those prehistoric voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats and refused to be deterred by lowering cliffs or storm-lashed , perilous rocks . |
| 15 | I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed . |
| 16 | It will view the events of Maastricht as important , but as yesterday 's agenda , and it will marvel at the failure of countries and their leaders to grasp the opportunities for progress . |
| 17 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |