Example sentences of "[to-vb] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Government would like to aim at an insurance pool of around £500m a year , the industry thinks this would be optimistic . |
| 2 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 3 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 4 | Before considering the " Cambridge Crisis " , it is important to look at an aspect of English studies which is often ignored . |
| 5 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 6 | Move on now to look at an area that 's er not frequently er does n't impinge a great deal on life in this country but it certainly does for travellers and for many people in the developing world . |
| 7 | I saw it erm I ran it — I ca n't remember why I was running it , oh I think I wanted to look at an actor erm , oh no , it was at a festival and I had to sit through it and I was very disappointed in it , I found it slow and rather obvious and erm a little lacking in bite . |
| 8 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
| 9 | After the age of around three months , an inability to look at an object without an eye turning in or , rarer , an eye rolling slightly outwards or upwards . |
| 10 | The couple met when Heath stopped to help at an accident outside her home near Pontypridd , Mid-Glamorgan , the court heard . |
| 11 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 12 | The fact that he is under-age could be a problem but a false beard , grey wig and strap-on paunch should be enough to fool any referee likely to officiate at an Athletico game . |
| 13 | One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran . |
| 14 | His project is to discover the series of computations that the visual system performs on the input-pairs so as to arrive at an interpretation of the ( 2-D ) array in terms of ( 3-D ) replacement , motion , or change . |
| 15 | An object of a particular date in a particular context does not automatically mean that it dates that context : a context often contains artefacts of quite different dates , and it is the archaeologists 's task to arrive at an interpretation that fits all the facts . |
| 16 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 17 | Whereas the language of a and b is quite straightforward and all you require to arrive at an interpretation are values for expressions being used to refer , you may feel that the language here is obscure , perhaps not even meaningful . |
| 18 | This principle instructs the hearer not to construct a context any larger than he needs to arrive at an interpretation . |
| 19 | This consisted of " reading off " , against the benchmarks established in the study , broad descriptions of posts ( or groups of similar posts ) to arrive at an assessment . |
| 20 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 21 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 22 | The method we adopt to arrive at an answer will be peculiar to the enquiry ( or discipline ) we are exploring . |
| 23 | I felt that no attempt was being made to arrive at an analysis of our situation based on the specificity of our experience as lesbians and gays . |
| 24 | An examination of Volume II will quickly reveal the unfinished nature of parts of the material , but there is sufficient there to enable the reader to arrive at an understanding of Marx 's ideas . |
| 25 | For instance , when trying to arrive at an understanding of the Earth in space , children discussed some of the following , statements in groups . |
| 26 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 27 | A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident . |
| 28 | The failure to arrive at an agreement sufficiently alarmed the District to establish its own sub-committee to examine the District 's future relationships with the Cambridge Board and LEAs in the region . |
| 29 | Eighty jobs are to go at an insurance group in Gloucester . |
| 30 | Thirteen hundred jobs are to go at an oil platform construction yard in the Highlands . |