Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 2 | Meetings had been videotaped at which the legislators accepted from him a total of $370,000 . |
| 3 | As more energy is put into the hammer without a check ( in other words , as the player plays more loudly ) a critical point will be reached at which the hammer retains enough energy after hitting the string to bounce up and hit the string again . |
| 4 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 5 | As the forces of production change and develop , as men acquire new skills , fashion new implements , discover new raw materials , a point is reached at which the existing structure of society becomes an obstacle to further development . |
| 6 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 7 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 8 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 9 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 10 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 11 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 12 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 13 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 14 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |