Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These teachings clearly influenced the early books of The Prelude , and it is worth digressing at this point to see how Wordsworth amended and yet clung to the spirit of Rousseau 's ideals . |
| 2 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 3 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 4 | The reasons for looking at this change and , I quote the reports the the ways the district council interpret the existing clause about provi , precedency is the district council ah , interpret in very different ways . |
| 5 | So we aim to provide some of the luxuries which most of us tend to take for granted at this time of year . ’ |
| 6 | Yet it is worth pausing at this point to remind ourselves that throughout her years in office , the Prime Minister has not created any new constitutional structures from which she and her Cabinet have been able to benefit . |
| 7 | For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating . |
| 8 | One useful way of looking at this problem is to recall Kuhn 's notion of ‘ normal ’ science ( Kuhn 1962 ; Lakatos and Musgrave 1970 ) . |
| 9 | As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies . |
| 10 | There is another way of looking at this issue . |
| 11 | An alternative way of looking at this phenomenon is to see the field official as a ‘ street-level bureaucrat ’ . |
| 12 | Another way of looking at this conundrum is to compare the market value ( the total value of all the shares ) of the two companies . |
| 13 | For example you might say , ‘ I wonder if there is another way of looking at this situation … ’ or ‘ do you think you might redefine the problem in a different way ’ . |
| 14 | There is another ( and not generally accepted ) way of looking at this situation which may seem more acceptable . |
| 15 | So in in terms of looking at this criterion , can you also er include within your thinking process , the need for the er or the possibility that the development of a new settlement could actually be a positive enhancement of the environment or make use of derelict land . |
| 16 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 17 | Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University . |
| 18 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 19 | It is worth noting at this juncture that , in Britain in the 30s , the prevailing view among those of a leftist orientation on the issue of global alignment was at least pro-Russian , if not actively pro-Communist . |
| 20 | It is worth noting at this point that currently there is very little overlap with the Savoy titles from France which have been available through Vogue ( distributed by New Note in this country ) . |
| 21 | It is worth noting at this point that many young readers do not recognize the distinction between ‘ fiction ’ and ‘ non-fiction ’ that many adults seem to find critically significant . |
| 22 | Two things are worth noting at this point . |
| 23 | It is worth noting at this point , however , that although the HGT-1 cell line shows morphological heterogeneity , seven clonal cell lines each with homogeneous morphology have been identified . |
| 24 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 25 | But I , I think it 's also erm , worth saying at this point , that a a , the higher rate of divorce is perhaps an indication again , |
| 26 | Therefore , in looking at this diagram , one needs to realize that to the southwest er and just east of er Strensall erm the area is filled up by greenbelt . |
| 27 | Before looking at this group , I will first consider some general trends . |
| 28 | She was being stupidly short-sighted in snapping at this man . |
| 29 | The dead volume of outlet tubing ( 25 L ) was equivalent to a 10 min delay in sampling at this flow rate . |
| 30 | LABOUR big guns may be barred from speaking at this month 's party conference because of a power struggle inside the party . |