Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hyperactive and overactive young children often can not concentrate long enough to sit at the table and so teaching this is a very important part of learning to control them generally .
2 Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ .
3 On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted .
4 I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done .
5 They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end .
6 The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee .
7 Our amateurs were simply not dedicated enough to win at a world level .
8 But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly .
9 One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists .
10 Once at the Tate , they usually had time only to look at the sea and river pieces , the Turners and the Whistlers .
11 You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power .
12 But this is only to look at the question as a matter of law .
13 It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true .
14 ‘ SSDs need only to look at the legislation to see they should be meeting the needs of the black community through mainstream budgets ’ .
15 I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse .
16 This is n't the case at all , and to see why , one need only to look at the composition of the rocks involved .
17 To see and support British effort , one has only to look at the Chelsea Show which starts on May 25 , where the National Farmers Union stand is so impressive with the huge pyramid of vegetables , fruit and flowers .
18 One has only to look at the United States , where they take sex education very seriously but seem to have got everything wrong , with the most appalling results to the nation 's health .
19 We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food .
20 We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns .
21 One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again .
22 The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land .
23 To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly .
24 ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’
25 It is not enough to look at the company 's accounts : the nature of the market , the stance of competitors , likely technological changes have all to be considered .
26 A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited .
27 It was certainly and opportunity for the churches together to look at the world situation in conversation together and thus , to deepen the faith which have to proclaim at arriving at a common understanding of the situation .
28 Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you .
29 ‘ It ca n't be that time , ’ she said , bounding up , only to clutch at the table as her head started up again .
30 Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way .
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