Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , they roasted Lavelle for eating at exclusive restaurants at the expense of company officials who were , at the time , under investigation by her department for dumping toxic waste in harbours and unprotected dumps . |
| 2 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 3 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 4 | Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay . |
| 5 | After looking at various books and pictures of English rural life they decide what jobs they will have in this community — fishing , farming , milling , etc . |
| 6 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 7 | The model serves well for interpersonal relationships but is less useful for looking at mass communications where opportunities for feedback are not always present and where the power and resources of the two parties may be vastly disproportionate . |
| 8 | 1 telescope ( either for looking at wonderful views from Chinese Bedroom or more likely for reading the label on object ten feet beyond the red cordon — seldom as rewarding as it should be , as it usually says ; Portrait of Unknown Lady by Anonymous Artist or Occasional Table in the style of Sheraton ) |
| 9 | Were there species adapted for living at particular depths ? |
| 10 | If couples learn and adopt means of spacing at adequate intervals , if breastfeeding is prolonged and if appropriate contraceptives are used during the period of lactation ( where abstinence is not practised ) , the result will not only be improved health and mortality conditions but also a concomitant spread of knowledge as to means of terminating childbearing . |
| 11 | the skill of communicating at different levels without necessarily articulat-ing them . |
| 12 | Catalysts must have a high surface to volume ratio to be effective and a physical form which presents minimum resistance to high velocity gas streams and be capable of operating at high temperatures and often under high humidity conditions . |
| 13 | This may be of use in looking at early events , such as occur during the establishment of tolerance ; thereby facilitating the task of looking at low numbers of cells . |
| 14 | I talked about the conditions that Normandin had described and kept repeating that it was n't a question of doing a deal , but of looking at other ways to get the hostages out . |
| 15 | This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise . |
| 16 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 17 | We also explored alternative ways of looking at certain events . |
| 18 | Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint ? |
| 19 | Why not just call you back and tell you what they told me ? — what you obviously knew all along , that there 's no hope at all of looking at secret files . ’ |
| 20 | This method of looking at cultural objects , developed chiefly by German and American scholars at the turn of the century , assumes in its extreme form that complex and exotic techniques can only be invented once in the history of mankind . |
| 21 | Hayek suggests that there are two ways of looking at human activities and institutions . |
| 22 | At the time of writing the Conservatives are taking these developments much further ; they plan for a centrally determined basic curriculum , with obviously a strong emphasis on the three Rs , a system of testing at various stages in the educational process , and the development of centrally funded schools removed from local authority control . |
| 23 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It 's just another way of getting at female employees . ’ |
| 24 | The peaks and pitfalls of buying at public auctions — Page 14–15 |
| 25 | The distinction between the two at this level , however , does not have as much meaning as such labelling might suggest , for there are many species that can use both methods of feeding at different times . |
| 26 | We have certain clues , such as the folklore tradition of dancing at key dates and times in the year , and the importance of the type of stone used , some for example being pure quartz . |
| 27 | Leopold and Wolfgang followed their usual pattern of stopping at large towns , such as Innsbruck , Rovereto , Verona and Mantua , to give concerts and to allow sceptics to subject Wolfgang 's legendary abilities to stringent tests . |
| 28 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 29 | Secondly , the process of arriving at consensual objectives meant that they represented ‘ the least-common-denominator ’ . |
| 30 | Belief in its importance is in fact a consequence of the recognition that people , including priests , are fallible , so that the right to challenge their views is a necessary condition of arriving at valid opinions . |