Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington Civic Theatre THE Heather Brothers ' musical knew how to pull at heart strings of those who have felt first love . |
| 2 | For instance , it would be wrong to reconsider the Taylor Report because some fans say they prefer to stand at football matches and there is a likelihood that less wealthy clubs will be forced out of business . |
| 3 | Miners may now keep 20% of their output to sell at free-market prices . |
| 4 | They continue to converse at cross purposes and wonder why their numerous conversations never seem to get anywhere or resolve any disagreement . |
| 5 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 6 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ , so this is a good opportunity to look at colour mutations — what causes them , how they affect the fish , and how they affect us as fishkeepers . |
| 7 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 8 | Officials of the inquiry and MPs immediately called for the extradition of Klebeck to be considered and for the inquiry to be reconstituted to look at wartime crimes in the Channel Islands . |
| 9 | This index enables you to access a variety of options which display information about Design Changes ( DCs ) ; for example , to find out the state of a particular DC , who is approving it , and why , and to look at assessment comments . |
| 10 | DESPITE being a monster flop in the TV charts , property experts reckon the BBC soap Eldorado is tempting planeloads of Brits to look at dream homes in the sun . |
| 11 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 12 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 13 | Secondly , it 's obviously impossible to look at endomembrane channels using this technique . |
| 14 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 15 | I used to look at birth books and that , otherwise I would n't have had a clue . |
| 16 | The idea was to get a fairly homogeneous sample , to look at housework attitudes in a group of women with similar backgrounds . |
| 17 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |
| 18 | We are quite keen to look at equity options , debt equity swaps er perhaps talk a to the government about an extension of the business expansion scheme , specifically into manufacturing industry er and generally look for innovative solutions , persuade to customers to take loans out instead of overdrafts . |
| 19 | NESTON Care Group has organised a public meeting on June 15 to look at community problems in the area and to see what positive steps can be taken to help eliminate them . |
| 20 | It is obvious , too , that image and language become combined in a more pervasive and subtle way still to give some words a gender — as in European languages — although they appear neutral : I find it a constant effort of will to look at picture books with my three-year-old and say ‘ That 's the farmer and that 's the farmer 's husband ’ . |
| 21 | The visits will be followed in September by inspections of other selected SSDs to look at hospital discharges and other aspects of the reforms , and a major national joint monitoring programme , conducted by the SSI and RHAs . |
| 22 | You do n't even , do you get a chance to look at speech therapists in action ? |
| 23 | These studies , which have British Canoe Union approval , are now being extended ( with funding from British Waterways ) to look at marathon paddlers using canal systems and this is your opportunity to take part and do your bit for science . |
| 24 | You will be expected to keep this knowledge up to date , to make the time to look at studio representatives ' portfolios of illustrators , story board artists or photographers . |
| 25 | Another way of finding useful or appropriate things to read is to look at library catalogues which have been published as books . |
| 26 | A research team at Birmingham University asked women to look at magazine pictures of catwalk beauties and then asked them to guess how wide the models were . |
| 27 | The question of control of the trust income is a critical one when one comes to look at trustee expenses ( a point which did not arise in the Spens case ) . |
| 28 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 29 | Encourage anyone who wishes , to help at meal times either by preparing , serving or clearing away . |
| 30 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |