Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge . |
| 2 | The Government 's new City Challenge Initiative , which we are all hoping will be accepted er on behalf of , that they are willing to look at social partnership with firms , although we have reservations about some of their proposals er in that area . |
| 3 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 4 | But we are perfectly prepared to look at scientific evidence — we are not afraid of that . |
| 5 | If Labour 's executive brethren are also disposed to look at new options and new deals today they will doubtless incur some internal wrath . |
| 6 | Or the London Gazette Supplement which is free to read at main Post Offices lists all winning numbers . |
| 7 | When households initially decide the flow of their labour services that they are willing to supply at different values for the real wage rate they are simultaneously deciding the quantities of goods which they demand in exchange for those services . |
| 8 | When necessary , it was also willing to strike at perceived threats , for example Iraq 's nuclear reactor in 1951 . |
| 9 | No wonder I could n't quite believe it when we went into the top entrance of OFD II and it opened into wide open spaces where it was easy to walk at full height . |
| 10 | It is not easy to measure at local scale because the 1981 Census did not contain an ethnicity question , but an impression can be gained from birth-place data in the Census . |
| 11 | Nigel Jemson is still ruled out along with centre half Peter Shirtliff ( hamstring ) , but full back Roland Nilsson looks set to return at full back in place of John Harkes . |
| 12 | Harry and I were tall and strong , not easy to attack at close quarters . |
| 13 | It 's also possible to play at Old Trafford ( applications are negotiable and subject to committee approval ) . |
| 14 | Armour-plated like giant turtles , humped and unruly and gashed with ferocious battle scars , yet in other places so biscuit-thin that it is possible to look at distant landscapes or clouds through the pierced form of a perforation in the ridge ( rather like one of Henry Moore 's outdoor sculptures ) . |
| 15 | These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples . |
| 16 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 17 | Although the need for fixed radio relay systems seems likely to remain at current levels in the foreseeable future , any diminution in spectrum availability will have to be compensated for . |
| 18 | Upstream , production in 1993 is likely to remain at current levels , as a series of new fields come into production and offset the older declining fields . |
| 19 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 20 | In some cultures there are still some established religious and social rituals surrounding death that help all the bereaved have a better understanding of how they are supposed to behave at certain times . |
| 21 | But the not-in-my-backyard arguments are hard to resist at local level . |
| 22 | In planning ward staffing , the ward manager should start with a clear view of the number of staff she is likely to require at various times of the day . |
| 23 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | It is the small local business , as in the examples above of builders , carpenters and glaziers , who are most likely to balk at long-term clearance of a debt . |
| 25 | This has not satisfied Essex County Council , which has produced statistics showing fatal accidents are four times more likely to happen at automatic gates . |
| 26 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
| 27 | It may also be feasible to look at individual letter confidences to determine an ordering of letter positions in which to apply the substitution algorithm . |
| 28 | In exploring what this may mean for professional practice , it may be helpful to look at other attempts to reconstrue the nature of professional activity . |
| 29 | It is particularly useful to look at overall patterns which emerge from a sequence of activities and ( maybe ) to discover obvious gaps in the child 's experience . |
| 30 | After surveying the general scene it is useful to look at existing differences between educators about each of the four main activities . |