Example sentences of "be [verb] at [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters . |
| 3 | So , we 're looked at in an ambivalent way . |
| 4 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 5 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 6 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 7 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 8 | This can already be guessed at from the demonic intensity of his most famous recordings , and it is confirmed by first-hand reports . |
| 9 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 10 | It must be looked at as a grand community of integrated environment . |
| 11 | A capital injection from the company 's bank has to be looked at as a probable source of additional finance , although this would mean a secured loan . |
| 12 | But the important point here I think , is that this is a corporate , or may be a corporate res responsibility , and therefore my understanding is that the officers are going to look at those parts which may be looked at as a corporate responsibility , and I would therefore erm , assume that one would look at all the C A B services in that light . |
| 13 | The emergence of three youngsters from Ibrox , Murray , Hagen and Pressley , could be looked at as an unusual bonus but that initial impression may not necessarily be the correct one . |
| 14 | And because this issue is clearly so site related , it seems to me it can not possibly be looked at at a strategic level . |
| 15 | Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view . |
| 16 | However , the situation in Leeds needs to be looked at in a national as well as in a local context . |
| 17 | There was a feeling that the wider issues needed to be looked at in a national forum . |
| 18 | Areas to be looked at in the short term are : |
| 19 | part of the area that we would be looking at for the new settlement . |
| 20 | Those grades will be arrived at by a complex and outwardly objective system external to the school . |
| 21 | Or , again , a new discovery might be arrived at after a long series of observations and calculations , as exemplified by Kepler 's discoveries of his laws of planetary motion . |
| 22 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |
| 23 | Of course it would be the height of absurdity to lay down a rule that these proportions should even approximately be aimed at in every orchestral movement . |
| 24 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 25 | So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board . |
| 26 | For days afterwards , he was unable to make a telephone call without imagining he was being laughed at on the other end of the line . |
| 27 | People were tiring of old-style ‘ workerist ’ ultra-left politics and standing at factory gates being laughed at by the very workers they were supposed to be leading to the new Jerusalem . |
| 28 | I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding the best efforts of the distinguished panel , the findings were arrived at after a one-sided presentation of evidence and argument . |
| 30 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |