Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the infancy stories about Jesus as recorded by both Matthew and Luke . |
| 2 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the varying responses to Jesus found in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 3 | One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph . |
| 4 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 5 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 6 | Every day , almost my first act is to glance at the hills near my home . |
| 7 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 8 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 9 | He says it 's hard in a new league with new players but his job is to look at the positive things and not the negative ones . |
| 10 | The critic must study the text with the maximum degree of attention to all its parts ( Richards suggests ( 1970 : 317 ) that four poems may be too many for a week 's reading ) , but his aim is to arrive at the ‘ relevant mental condition ’ ( Richards 1970 : 11 ) associated with it , and then to judge this mental condition according to the principles outlined above . |
| 11 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most suitable starting point is to look at the major domestically based leisure groups , the activities of which are summed up in Table 11.13 . |
| 13 | The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years . |
| 14 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 15 | Our policy is to recruit at the lower levels and train those staff who show aptitude for managerial responsibility . |
| 16 | The Wanless way out of trouble is to look at the detail . |
| 17 | If your strategy is to start at the starboard end of the line and carry on sailing on starboard tack , the situation is as illustrated in Diagram 1 . |
| 18 | A crude but effective method is to look at the rider 's backside and pick a horse with one to match ! |
| 19 | I have great difficulty in picking them up with binoculars , but with × 7 I find that the best method is to start at the Delta-Epsilon pair and then proceed to Lambda ( 3.8 ) ; M12 forms a triangle with Lambda and Epsilon . |
| 20 | The best method is to begin at the fainter of the two Pointers ( Agena , or Beta Centauri ) and extend a line from it through Alpha Trianguli Australe ; prolonged for far enough this will lead to Alpha Pavonis in the Peacock , after which the other Birds can be sorted out . |
| 21 | The secret 's to start at the bottom and work up . |
| 22 | My idea of good style is to arrive at the stance with a minimum of runners . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the classification in terms of the legal nature of the transaction is important and the author 's suggested approach is to look at the predominant purpose of the transaction . |
| 24 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |
| 25 | it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people . |
| 26 | One of the best — and easiest ways to obtain information is to LOOK AT THE LABEL . |
| 27 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |
| 28 | One way of attempting to assess the situation is to look at the list of unfair terms set out in the annex to the Directive , and decide the extent to which English law will already control such clauses . |
| 29 | Secret The crucial part of this trick is to arrive at the yellow sweet whatever number is called . |
| 30 | One way of gaining a crude overall view of the pattern of income is to look at the current pay attached to a range of jobs in Britain . |