Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of growth for 1990 was forecast at between 4.8 per cent and 5.2 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 2 | Individual ministries would face an average 5 per cent cut in administrative spending , and public-sector pay rises were to be contained at between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent . |
| 3 | Their stance is typified by one young officer 's remark , when faced with a recalcitrant discharger , that ‘ all cases should be looked at as potential prosecutions ’ . |
| 4 | Th it was being looked at at one point |
| 5 | Norman 's invitation to this year 's Masters was looked at with raised eyebrows by many , especially since , at this writing , the ever-steady Tom Kite needed to win New Orleans to get in on the Georgia garden party . |
| 6 | The point is that some things in health services ca n't easily be looked at with quantitative methods alone . |
| 7 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 8 | In these circumstances , the evidence of the first defendant , Mr. Morgan and Miss Calagarri of testamentary capacity required to be looked at with special care and caution . |
| 9 | The special case of a disseminated labour force , the railway and other communications workers , will be looked at for 1922 . |
| 10 | ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel . |
| 11 | I agree , I find it quite difficult to drive a lot of vehicles because I 'm very small and especially if you 've got small feet and I think there 's a big problem in that area and that it should be looked at for small people driving cars . |
| 12 | It 's a serious problem which has to be looked at on two levels . |
| 13 | These questions could be looked at within small groups of students . |
| 14 | Looked at like that , I gradually began to feel a little more able to let go of my unrealistic expectations of my mother and to love her as she is . |
| 15 | The rest of the speech is saying that since the whole argument must have no excuse for what he is at the moment , it must be looked at like this : that when he becomes greater , he will become very dangerous to Rome : like a serpent still in the egg , which , when hatched , will become deadly . |
| 16 | We 've looked Strategic sites were looked at after that event of December the eighth . |
| 17 | Why this need to imagine it finished , installed , looked at by other eyes ? he wrote . |
| 18 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 19 | I am immediately introducing new measures to ensure that all high-risk premises , which include restaurants , will be looked at by some health officer every six months . ’ |
| 20 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |
| 21 | Looked at from all angles , a member of the minority of the total listenership which spoke English well was likely to be better informed . |
| 22 | This may be looked at from two points of view : |
| 23 | Looked at from one point of view , snow is the wonder of the world , provided you have a child 's appreciation of magic and can withdraw quickly from the cold into the warmth of the indoors . |
| 24 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 25 | Looked at from another angle is the grill of the confessional . |
| 26 | Looked at from this new angle , the smears were only smears . |
| 27 | Looked at from this standpoint , the Court of the Tuileries seemed to be a tawdry affair governed by a spirit of careless frivolity where all was hugger-mugger . |
| 28 | Looked at from this angle , the mystery may not be such a mystery after all . |
| 29 | Looked at from this perspective , however , the distinction itself is not a very fruitful one . |
| 30 | Looked at from this point of view Gundovald 's revolt illustrates perfectly a major aspect of sixth- and indeed seventh-century politics , that is the tendency for those lacking royal support , either because of accidents of death or because they were in opposition to a particular monarch , to search out the favour of another king . |