Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |
| 2 | Although this chapter can only look at national-level data , indicators of acute housing shortage are much more evident in certain areas such as London since the geographical distribution of housing does not match the availability of employment and the location of places in which people want to live , and regional differential price rises in houses exacerbate this problem . |
| 3 | In K 3 C 60 , a T curve ( dashed line in Fig. 1 a ) provides a slightly better fit at higher temperatures ( T60 K ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The Darkfall strike generates what we can only call at this stage a chemical reaction . |
| 5 | However , there is scope , in future years , should the Committee wish to develop the site , but I recognise the limited resources of the Civic Trust and I would only wish at this stage that the Trust continues to visit the site and also encourages and supports educational visits . |
| 6 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 7 | Working hours were thus dictated by tides , and the mill can only operate at favourable times . |
| 8 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |
| 9 | A charity bookshop in Darlington is seeking a new home after its landlord Vaux Brewery said it could no longer stay at cramped premises in Priestgate . |
| 10 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 11 | Border , too , it is rumoured , is nearing the end of his career and could easily survive at great profit in the county scene having also tasted life in England with Essex . |
| 12 | Martin said , ‘ Will you just look at that child ? ’ |
| 13 | Whilst we 're er whilst we 're waiting for her can I just look at that book please ? |
| 14 | ‘ OK , let's just look at these phone-booths the rat has been using . |
| 15 | No , I I 'm gi it 's not my , I I would just look at mathematical skills and saying that you 're not really yo you do n't really mean mathematical skills . |
| 16 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 17 | The well-organised firm does not just look at last year and add ten per cent . |
| 18 | But , rather than spend the money and trouble on another of these exercises in exhibitionistic virtue , could we all just gather at some shrine , shout , ‘ Thank you , Arthur Miller , for being so much better than us ! ’ and go home to dinner ? |
| 19 | One should perhaps just add at this point that Proust also underlines the very flexible nature of this existential time . |
| 20 | You can normally retire at any age after 50 . |
| 21 | Could I just say at this point , this , this is one area where I would envisage us looking critically at what we 're doing and , and , and , and altering things quite significantly over the next six months . |
| 22 | Can I just say at this point that erm John will happ had a word with the landlady and the landlord of the Reindeer , with regards to this application , and what the landlady told John was that she and her husband would dearly like to do away with the breeze block garage that is there , that is totally out of character , and extend the car park way back to the garages , but the brewery are insisting that they do what is planned here and do away with some of the |
| 23 | However this problem will usually arise at that time when this can not be done . |
| 24 | In the first place , such measures have victims whom one can not always compensate at later times . |
| 25 | I must admit I 'd always cheat at that corner , when I 'm coming up to it , I do n't do it suddenly |
| 26 | While Baptist fundamentalists are powerful in the ‘ Bible Belt ’ of North and South Carolina and Virginia , they can only ever succeed at federal level by working in alliance with other conservative blocs , of which the biggest is that of American Roman Catholicism . |
| 27 | Fly around this area even without landing there , and you can still look at unbelievably-coloured lakes , watch steam issuing from cliffs , see silica terraces , sulphur mines and geothermal power plants . |
| 28 | Do you ever look at this Cilla er Blind Date ? |
| 29 | A person who harasses does not usually stop at one victim . |
| 30 | Does your niece still live at One House ? |