Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An information board for each entrance should also be provided , so that visitors can be given topical information — what is going on , what is worth seeing at any given time — as well as permanent information on the Garden itself . |
| 2 | However , for practical reasons , most are concentrating only on the borders to their own territories , and for cultural reasons ( say their customers ) some are still not serious about competing at all , and retain the old , nationalised take-it-or-leave-itism . |
| 3 | These teachings clearly influenced the early books of The Prelude , and it is worth digressing at this point to see how Wordsworth amended and yet clung to the spirit of Rousseau 's ideals . |
| 4 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 5 | Hazel and Blackberry , after looking at each other for a moment , caught him up and went beside him . |
| 6 | Eventually , after looking at several different rooms , Endill chose the one he wanted . |
| 7 | You see , I think I was in such a state after glancing at those few pages simply because I did n't read any more . |
| 8 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 9 | After gesticulating at each other , they both fell silent and looked at their drinks . |
| 10 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 11 | Bereiter 's mention of syntax provides a timely cue for looking at another area of research into writing development which , it was hoped , would give us clear indicators of development through the years of schooling . |
| 12 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 13 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 14 | All along they were also aware that brains were composed of living cells that were active in non-electrical ways as well , but until recently the techniques for looking at this other activity were not available . |
| 15 | The reasons for looking at this change and , I quote the reports the the ways the district council interpret the existing clause about provi , precedency is the district council ah , interpret in very different ways . |
| 16 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |
| 17 | By ensuring adequate representation of sentencers from all levels of court , in addition to other professionals with experience of the penal system , he suggests that such a body would be capable of developing realistic guidance for sentencing at all levels that should at the same time be acceptable to sentencers themselves . |
| 18 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 19 | Visitors to Chris Martin 's house in Cheltenham might be forgiven for shivering at all the slithering going on among the selection of snakes which share his semi . |
| 20 | It is worth looking at each key word or phrase in turn . |
| 21 | It is worth looking at these in detail : |
| 22 | Yet it is worth pausing at this point to remind ourselves that throughout her years in office , the Prime Minister has not created any new constitutional structures from which she and her Cabinet have been able to benefit . |
| 23 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 24 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |
| 25 | ‘ Hey , Phil , ’ he called , ‘ did you ever think of dying at all ? |
| 26 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 27 | Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey . |
| 28 | When atrocious weather precludes any possibility of climbing at all , it 's worth descending a ‘ comfortable ’ distance down the terrace to witness the natural turmoil taking place in the inlet between Stennis and neighbouring Bosherston Head ; a simultaneously exhilarating and sobering sight . |
| 29 | For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating . |
| 30 | The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve . |