Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at [adj] [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 | The pair were friends for 65 years after meeting at New College , Oxford , and regularly telephoned each other with their latest jokes . |
| 5 | And lively Bradford forward Fairbank completed the rout of the League leaders with a final touchdown after racing at top speed onto Watson 's delicate short pass . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After gesticulating at each other , they both fell silent and looked at their drinks . |
| 8 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 9 | If you wish to record a dialogue for use as above , it can be done as follows : record the whole dialogue for listening at normal speed , without any pauses between the various utterances ( if there are pauses you will be tempted to mimic ) |
| 10 | In the post-Bullock years , thinking about writing at secondary level in particular has been dominated by the model developed by Britton and his colleagues at the London Institute for the Schools Council . |
| 11 | But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now in fact , before patch clamp came along in in a in around nineteen eighty there were there was another technique which was available for looking at single channel currents . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it is nevertheless worth looking at one market in some detail — that for grains . |
| 16 | If this is so , it is worth looking at professional development a little more closely . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Again , people in other religions may likewise have had ( though for myself as a westerner I find the most to be gained through looking at western religion ) . |
| 19 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 20 | Probably he was unused to such directness from lowly individuals such as herself — individuals incapable of producing at short notice trifling sums like three and a half thousand pounds ! |
| 21 | Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey . |
| 22 | For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating . |
| 23 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 24 | This way of looking at professional education is having a considerable impact on many fields . |
| 25 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 26 | A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As yet this technique has limited spatial and temporal resolution but it does offer a means of looking at human brain activity in a fairly safe way . |
| 29 | The systems approach is often a convenient way of looking at human behaviour either internally — this is man as a set of sub-systems or in terms of the man interacting with mechanisms — man-machine systems , or man interacting with organisations — socio-technical systems . |
| 30 | A vigorous critique of utilitarianism has been offered by Bernard Williams who refers to it as ‘ distinctive way of looking at human action and morality . ’ |