Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Uist in sunshine in March is not common but the visual beauty is hard to beat and Lochboisdale Branch situated at the waters edge looked in as good fettle as I have ever seen it . |
| 2 | He was a powerfully built man , over six feet tall with sleek black hair greying at the temples . |
| 3 | He was tall and thin , a leggy lightweight in a dark-grey suit , with a pleasant , long , cleanshaven face , and short hair greying at the temples and receding slightly from a weathered brown forehead . |
| 4 | Her heart sank at the thoughts aroused by the sight of the romantic poet-painter , and Sam 's puppy eagerness to reach him . |
| 5 | Our legal correspondent looks at the possibilities of and the background to plea bargaining , one of the issues covered in a recent Government consultation document on improving the delivery of justice system in Scotland . |
| 6 | The sixties look adopted by Betty Boo and by Deee-Lite 's Lady Miss Kier is visible in the eye kohl , the bodysuits and the dark , straight hair curled at the ends . |
| 7 | The cafe situated at the watersports building is opened for all the summer months and provides a comprehensive menu of both hot and cold foods . |
| 8 | This chapter looks at the efforts of philanthropists and defenders of women 's rights to expand the range of employment for both working-class and middle-class girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 9 | The following chapter looks at the debates over permissiveness in more detail , by examining the preoccupations of the moral entrepreneurs of the period , and in particular , Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association . |
| 10 | This chapter looks at the perceptions of parents of their role in the assessment of their child 's special educational needs as part of the Statementing process carried out under the 1981 Education Act . |
| 11 | This chapter looks at the roles video can have in teacher training and at materials associated with these roles . |
| 12 | This chapter looks at the uses they may put it to . |
| 13 | Occasionally more heavy digestion occurs at the tips of the incisors ( Fig. 3.22 B , C ) , where the enamel is totally removed . |
| 14 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 15 | The wind rattled at the bars and made the doors of the Cages shake and squeak . |
| 16 | Reginald Bassett 's 1931 : Political Crisis , published in 1958 , was the first attempt to look at the events of 1931 free from contemporary preconceptions . |
| 17 | Or try the heart-in-mouth sensation when you 're strolling with your lover at some secret rendezvous and you suddenly see a neighbour across the street or your husband 's car waiting at the lights . |
| 18 | Dot clutched at the cuffs of her coat but even the familiar softness of worn velvet was not reassuring . |
| 19 | This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country . |
| 20 | Her mouth drooped at the corners . |
| 21 | The liftmaster looked at the others questioningly . |
| 22 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 23 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 24 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 25 | Another study looked at the consequences of family conflict and a ‘ new wave of teenage girls breaking away ’ ( Willans , 1976 ) . |
| 26 | In its most spectacular mainland attack , the INLA killed the Conservative politician Mr Airey Neave in a car bombing at the Houses of Parliament in 1979 . |
| 27 | ‘ I only hope and pray it does n't do too much damage , ’ he said , and jumped as they all heard a high-pitched , deafening roar which shook the house , followed by the sound of wood splitting as the wind tore at the planks and ripped the front door off its hinges . |
| 28 | The ambulance arriving at the gates of the hospital , two men heaving back the great iron gates . |
| 29 | Poor Cypriots who have no option but to look on , while their boss — who is suited by Anzio , shod by Hoage 's , and shirted by Barries ’ — rants up and down the linoleum batting at the flexes of their sewing machines , and talking of productivity deals and workers ' share options . |
| 30 | On the television he saw the President waving at the cameras before the doors on Air Force One closed . |