Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 2 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 3 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 4 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 5 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 6 | One has only to look at the new jobs created and investment . |
| 7 | One has only to look at the United States , where they take sex education very seriously but seem to have got everything wrong , with the most appalling results to the nation 's health . |
| 8 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 9 | To see and support British effort , one has only to look at the Chelsea Show which starts on May 25 , where the National Farmers Union stand is so impressive with the huge pyramid of vegetables , fruit and flowers . |
| 10 | One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists . |
| 11 | One has only to look at the economic forecasts . |
| 12 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 13 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 14 | For example , in assigning an index to a word like ’ making ’ or ’ baking ’ , it may be possible to work backwards to arrive at the root ( ’ make ’ or ’ bake ’ ) by removing the ’ ing ’ ending and adding the letter ’ e ’ . |
| 15 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 16 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 17 | Then his weight lifted and she opened her dazed eyes , confused , as he moved away to sit at the edge of the bed . |
| 18 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 19 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 20 | There was one other issue which the CEGB tried hard to avoid at the Hinkley C Inquiry . |
| 21 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 22 | Filmer came alone to sit at an untenanted table , ordering eggs and coffee from Oliver without looking at him . |
| 23 | The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee . |
| 24 | We would do well to look at the life of the one who is arguably the first church planter ; the apostle Peter . |
| 25 | Dave 's verdict : lightweight travellers , cyclists and mountain marathoners would do well to look at the advantages this flexible combination system offers . |
| 26 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 27 | Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah . |
| 28 | The goldfinches pecked neatly and precisely : The snow buntings burrowed energetically , discarding dead stalks and leaves with a quick flick of the head ; then dug deeper to get at the hidden seeds , their busy movements leaving visible impressions . |
| 29 | Instead , he turned away to stare at the picture of her mother which was on the chest of drawers . |
| 30 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |