Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 2 | In Britain , the electronics industry has set up a working party to look at the options . |
| 3 | It does not take a well-qualified anthropologist to guess at the impact on self-esteem , relationships , and family lifestyles . |
| 4 | A game of darts at the local pub ; just as much a favourite way to relax at the end of the day 50 years ago , as it is now . |
| 5 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 6 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 7 | Moreover , as Figure 7.2b shows , there is a marked tendency to congregate at a very few ‘ honeypot ’ sites . |
| 8 | So as far as you 're concerned , P E Ps have got a tremendous part to play at the moment , and I do recommend that you take advantage of them . |
| 9 | 1-0 at half time was n't so bad , especially with a second leg to come at the Manor . |
| 10 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 11 | In other words , for a human being to stare at a cat is to threaten it . |
| 12 | This column is genuinely not written with a sense of criticism , but I believe it does demonstrate one of the problems that is at the very heart of British tennis — lack of a sense of vision , a sense of belief and a passionate desire to achieve at the very highest echelons of the world game and not to be content to make a comfortable living in a relatively small pond . |
| 13 | Innocent III himself by the bull " Vineam Domini " of April 1213 summoned a great council to meet at the Lateran in Rome on 1 November 1215 to be known as the Fourth Lateran Council . |
| 14 | The lance shivered , the shaft splintering halfway down to the guard , and Hotspur hurled it from him , and reached a long arm to snatch at the bridle as he was swept past , and drag the terrified horse to its feet again . |
| 15 | It will also receive a four-year option to buy at an undisclosed price 65% of GPA 's equity , with the possibility of extending that to 80% . |
| 16 | It is a good idea to know at the outset whether the members of the critical mass will be willing and able to respond appropriately to the change ; then , if it is determined that certain members are unwilling or unable , that situation can be planned for and dealt with . |
| 17 | If you have any problems with this , it would be a good idea to work at the phrasing aurally , by listening closely to the record . |
| 18 | It might then be a good time to look at the original sources of stress which created these symptoms in the first place . |
| 19 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 20 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 21 | On the day Melrose proved why they are champions and why Russell 's words could be prophetic — now the Border League too looks a safe bet to stay at the Greenyards . |
| 22 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 23 | It 's a difficult job to look at the legislation and see a way through it for organisations dealing with homelessness — there is no way through it . |
| 24 | it 's a dirty fuel to use at the moment but they 're all , there are means being developed even now on |
| 25 | It is a biological catalyst , a catalyst being something that encourages a chemical reaction to proceed at a faster rate than it would do normally . |
| 26 | Perhaps , in retrospect , rather a dull pair to have at a dinner party . |
| 27 | It 's a modern affliction to look at an aircraft , something that has yet to reach its 100th birthday in our history , and take it for granted . |
| 28 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 29 | Melissa felt a wild desire to laugh at the thought of herself , a sane Englishwoman in her forties , playing a sort of eighteenth-century game of cops and robbers with a simple-minded Frenchman suffering from delusions . |