Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |
| 2 | We arranged to meet at the hotel the following morning . |
| 3 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 4 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 5 | Given the mythology surrounding Nizan 's life and work , it is essential to establish at the outset the full range and scope of Nizan 's activities in order to highlight the very real intellectual and literary qualities of the man himself . |
| 6 | It is essential to establish at the outset the correct relationship between Nizan and the communist party . |
| 7 | Journalists who telephoned the divisional police were told bluntly that the men had not even been interviewed at the time the army spokesman had made his statement . |
| 8 | I mentioned at the beginning the idea of a classless society , now I do n't know what you think of the er the idea of a classless society , it 's something that the th th Prime Minister erm er er talked about when he , when he took office and I asked whether you think it 's possible to have , we if you think a classless society is possible at all , whether you think it 's desirable . |
| 9 | In the final part of our series on the work of the RSPCA , Liz Hannam looks at the difficulties the society face when they try to take a cruelty case to court . |
| 10 | It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce . |
| 11 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |
| 12 | Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view . |
| 13 | But whereas General Franco 's rapid and decisive action resolved at a stroke the problem of order and the underlying political question , the use of force to suppress anarchists and revolutionary communists in Barcelona only exacerbated the Republic 's political difficulties and thereby seriously undermined its capacity to offer united resistance to its attackers . |
| 14 | The major points of difference between the proposed Statement of Auditing Standards and the existing standard are that : auditors ' reports would contain brief descriptions of the respective responsibilities of directors and auditors , and would indicate the basis of the opinion expressed and include a description of the key features of the audit process ; auditors would no longer issue qualified reports solely as a result of uncertainties which can not be resolved at the date the financial statements are approved ( ‘ inherent uncertainties ’ ) . |
| 15 | He was a religious sheikh and presided at the mosque the girl 's father attended . |
| 16 | However , parties should consider at the outset the payment of their advisers ' fees in the event that the transaction aborts . |
| 17 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 18 | They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization . |
| 19 | One of the advantages of a quantitative study of this sort is that it is possible to view at a glance a collected set of responses . |
| 20 | There are other texts which answer different needs , both our own and those living at the time the texts were produced . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 22 | A series of record cards are produced which reveal at a glance the condition and effectiveness of the stock in each interest category , and an ‘ annual replacement target ’ is worked out which serves for the selector as the target figure of acquisitions for his category during the year . |
| 23 | She was picking at a leaf-taking the green out to leave a filigree of veins . |
| 24 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |
| 25 | I ask whether the legacy is only of what was owed at the time the will was made or if later increases in that sum by way of interest are also included . |
| 26 | I think , was it Colin I was talk , we were looking at a Porsche the other day , and he was drooling over this Porsche , and yet it does n't do anything for me . |
| 27 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 28 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |
| 29 | It is worth looking at the way the Soviet leader 's behaviour changed in the course of the crisis . |
| 30 | Looking at the way the international bodies like IEEE and X/Open Co Ltd have failed to define even a basic set of standards due to the competitive nature of the marketplace , AFUU believes an international body of GUI users is what is needed to get some momentum going , a global organisation that can represent user requirements to the GUI providers . |