Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she left West Heath , Diana followed in sister Sarah 's footsteps by enrolling at the Institut Alpin Videmanette , an expensive finishing school near Gstaad in Switzerland , where Diana took classes in domestic science , dressmaking and cookery . |
| 2 | One can begin to answer these questions by looking at the proportion of the population who live in households of different types . |
| 3 | This study attempts to address some of these questions by looking at the desirability of design as a career . |
| 4 | I always try solving problems by starting at the end — never the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | Literary Pragmatics aims to establish a common interdisciplinary ground of research for linguists and literary scholars by looking at the " writing and reading of literary texts as interactive communication processes … inextricably linked with the particular sociocultural contexts within which they take place " ( p. xiv ) . |
| 6 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 7 | Nationalists organized in " Citizens ' Committees " attempted to pre-empt the Estonian Supreme Soviet elections by holding at the end of February and in early March privately organized elections to a rival " Congress of Estonia " , intended as a revival of the parliament of the independent pre-war republic . |
| 8 | English Hops began their development of hop oils by looking at the ‘ dry hopping ’ end of the brewing process , when a handful of whole or pellet hops are added to casks of beer . |
| 9 | The factors that helped to build them will be examined further in the next two chapters by looking at the forces that influence the making and implementation of social policy . |
| 10 | The good news is that you can usually tell which type of value a keyname experts by looking at the value that is already there before you start . |
| 11 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |