Example sentences of "it [verb] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically a picture book , it looks at the great collections of Schukin , Morozov and Costakis , reproducing the well known photos of the interiors of their homes , but is probably more interesting for the lesser-known contemporary names . |
| 2 | It happened at the Olympic games at Munich in 1972 . |
| 3 | It chewed the bloody snow , gulped the entrails and the gore , growled in its throat as it worked at the tough tissues . |
| 4 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 5 | So it appeared at the public hearings . |
| 6 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 7 | It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information . |
| 8 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |