Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These teachings clearly influenced the early books of The Prelude , and it is worth digressing at this point to see how Wordsworth amended and yet clung to the spirit of Rousseau 's ideals . |
| 2 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 3 | Hazel and Blackberry , after looking at each other for a moment , caught him up and went beside him . |
| 4 | IN 1990 , 87,555 women married between the ages of 20 and 24 , and 71,489 — or 81.6 per cent — divorced after marrying at this age . |
| 5 | After gesticulating at each other , they both fell silent and looked at their drinks . |
| 6 | Bereiter 's mention of syntax provides a timely cue for looking at another area of research into writing development which , it was hoped , would give us clear indicators of development through the years of schooling . |
| 7 | The reasons for looking at this change and , I quote the reports the the ways the district council interpret the existing clause about provi , precedency is the district council ah , interpret in very different ways . |
| 8 | So we aim to provide some of the luxuries which most of us tend to take for granted at this time of year . ’ |
| 9 | Yet it is worth pausing at this point to remind ourselves that throughout her years in office , the Prime Minister has not created any new constitutional structures from which she and her Cabinet have been able to benefit . |
| 10 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 11 | Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey . |
| 12 | For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating . |
| 13 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 14 | A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department . |
| 15 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 16 | One useful way of looking at this problem is to recall Kuhn 's notion of ‘ normal ’ science ( Kuhn 1962 ; Lakatos and Musgrave 1970 ) . |
| 17 | As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies . |
| 18 | There is another way of looking at this issue . |
| 19 | An alternative way of looking at this phenomenon is to see the field official as a ‘ street-level bureaucrat ’ . |
| 20 | Another way of looking at this conundrum is to compare the market value ( the total value of all the shares ) of the two companies . |
| 21 | For example you might say , ‘ I wonder if there is another way of looking at this situation … ’ or ‘ do you think you might redefine the problem in a different way ’ . |
| 22 | There is another ( and not generally accepted ) way of looking at this situation which may seem more acceptable . |
| 23 | So in in terms of looking at this criterion , can you also er include within your thinking process , the need for the er or the possibility that the development of a new settlement could actually be a positive enhancement of the environment or make use of derelict land . |
| 24 | The government favours using these new tests as a replacement for the current methods of testing at that age for admission to grammar secondary schools ( which emphasise verbal reasoning rather than attainment ) . |
| 25 | ‘ He may have considered the possibility of selling at some stage in the past , ’ she conceded reluctantly . |
| 26 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 27 | Cos it was sort of rationing at that time . |
| 28 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 29 | Fights occur , of course , but conflicts are most often settled by bouts of roaring at each other ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 30 | Today , you can enjoy the challenges and benefits of learning at any time . |