Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 2 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 3 | ‘ I have absolutely no plans to retire at any time . ’ |
| 4 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 5 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 6 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 7 | First , despite a brave attempt to encourage candidates to stand at last week 's annual general meeting , the council remains grossly under-represented . |
| 8 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 9 | ‘ I want David to look at another skin rash . |
| 10 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 11 | The curriculum provides many opportunities to look at current work and organisational problems . |
| 12 | It is understandable for our staff in the offices to look at such claims in a different way from that of someone who comes in off the street . |
| 13 | As the authors state , it is important for neonatal research to look at simple interventions such as this . |
| 14 | Kenneth Clarke , the education secretary , poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party set up by his department to look at physical education . |
| 15 | These could be controlled by the driver , on either side , enabling the cars to load at central islands , as envisaged on the Lytham Road route before it was conventionally relaid in 1936 . |
| 16 | Langton could also play snooker despite his disability , and negotiated 35 steps to play at one club , Preston Crown Court heard . |
| 17 | Last month 's issue featured my visit to East Lambrook Manor to look at true geraniums , or cranesbills . |
| 18 | NEW SPARCS TO FLY AT HOT CHIPS |
| 19 | It 's only natural for defeated parties to grab at such explanations , but there are some reasons for believing that the result of the general election in Scotland owed more to Conservative skill at exploiting the mechanics of registration and demography than to any ‘ principled ’ decision-making by voters . |
| 20 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 21 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 22 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 24 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 25 | That is , while it may prove difficult or impossible to devise the appropriate experiment to get at young children 's appreciation of logical necessity , they may reveal that they have a measure of understanding of logical necessity in what they say and do in everyday contexts . |
| 26 | The court held that it was not open to the defendant to raise at that stage the question of the validity of the notice to quit . |
| 27 | For its elegance , performance , comfort and refinement , the XJ6 4.0 is a hard car to beat at any price . |
| 28 | The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown . |
| 29 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 30 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |