Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Many unpredictable issues may emerge which are difficult to plan for at this stage .
2 Dovercourt was designed for at most 500 residents but was providing for up to twice as many .
3 Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form .
4 She was obviously not being looked after at all .
5 This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment .
6 This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment .
7 It 's good to see their interests being looked after at long last .
8 FOOTBALL is probably not a F subject Darlingtonians F would care to be reminded of at this stage in a trying season .
9 Take the time at the gallery to see what a communications satellite looks like at close quarters , or one of the first budget 405-line TV sets sold by Pye in 1938 .
10 ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said .
11 We shall refer again to this investigation but there is one aspect of it which it is appropriate to comment upon at this point .
12 I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors .
13 The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day .
14 Rather , in most ordinary kinds of talk these principles are oriented to , such that when talk does not proceed according to their specifications , hearers assume that , contrary to appearances , the principles are nevertheless being adhered to at some deeper level .
15 Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution .
16 ‘ Jesus , Father , and where would you be walking to at this time of the morning ? ’
17 Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time .
18 Er and also it 's not always easy , I mean there 's all this youth work business and sort of detached youth work and so on in erm er you know in the very underprivileged areas , but actually I , I think people say that the erm er the disaffected teenagers are actually some of the most difficult people to relate to at all .
19 Th it was being looked at at one point
20 ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks .
21 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
22 Not something I want to talk about at this moment .
23 Whatever your ideas on style and whatever your budget , you will find what you 're looking for at Allied .
24 It was just one of those situations where you find just the sound you 're looking for at that particular time .
25 The transparent ‘ honesty ’ with which he will say good and bad about the people he 's worked with and around has always to be taken as having a ‘ point of view ’ ; that ‘ point of view ’ is governed by what Niki is looking for at any particular moment .
26 So you want it arranged in some form that makes it easy to retrieve ( find ) the specific item you are looking for at any given moment .
27 However , product quality may not be sought after at all .
28 What were houses made of at this time ?
29 He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it .
30 Elsewhere in the country , however , the idea met with at best a lukewarm response , and evidence of the existence of classes exists for only about a quarter of English counties .
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