Example sentences of "[verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 2 | and they rated at with the high , when the house boom was on |
| 3 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 4 | Oligodendrocytes appear at about the time of birth and the astrocyte a week later . |
| 5 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 6 | The people the people who are living in Kuwait , they got all the basic erm services such as electricity and water , which is , you know , water is processed a mechanically processed system , we do n't have rivers and we do n't have portable water wells erm we process our own water through erm desalination plants located at on the gulf . |
| 7 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 8 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 9 | Meeting Steve the stamp man from Surbiton or Billy from the back of beyond or travelling around attending street parties and generally being gawped at by the Press and the populace is not my idea of whooping it up . |
| 10 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 11 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 12 | For this the sore is gently scraped and any fluid that exudes can then be looked at under the microscope . |
| 13 | However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . |
| 14 | However , even this situation is not ‘ new ’ if looked at over the longer term . |
| 15 | It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course . |
| 16 | I 'm now just got their comments now , and it may be helpful if I enclose a copy to er whoever may may wish to have a copy to be looked at over the weekend . |
| 17 | Now from the , from the evidence that we 've all looked at over the l past few weeks and tell me if I 'm boring you |
| 18 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |
| 19 | And to a very large degree , that has been erm , achieved , and I think that erm , the prospects for the county council for ninety-four five are now much better than they appeared to be a year ago , and er , I think the prospects for ninety-five six will need to be looked at through the budget review sub-committee and this committee at an early stage , and I 'm sure that the workman-like way in which it 's addressed it 's business is a good sign for the future . |
| 20 | Football League spokesman Ian Cotton admitted : ‘ The competition will be looked at at the end of the season . ’ |
| 21 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 22 | ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football . |
| 23 | This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 . |
| 24 | ARGUMENTS against electoral reform look rather threadbare when looked at against the reality that our constitution has already failed to prevent ideologies of the extreme Right and Left from seizing power at both local and national levels . |
| 25 | Looked at against the background of the difficulties in the way of achieving a representative sample , the close result of 1932 was a fantastic stroke of luck ; and errors of 4 per cent or so , as produced in 1936 , are only to be expected . |
| 26 | That the audition process was one that examined you totally — your private behaviour as well as your theatrical ability , the two feeding into each other to find a way to suit the requirements of the part and the particular aspects that were being looked at by the director , Michael Blakemore . |
| 27 | The A-level is also being looked at by the School Examinations and Assessment Council , but ideas are in still in the very early stages . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 30 | 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 . |