Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the Reis-ul-Kuttab , or Reis Effendi as he was usually called by foreigners , the head of the grand vizier 's chancery , showed some signs of becoming at least an approximation to a foreign minister . |
| 2 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 3 | He repudiated his first wife and married a recognised Judaic princess , thereby seeking at least a form of legal sanction . |
| 4 | As they uncovered it , they found they were looking at not a human , but an animal . |
| 5 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 6 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 7 | In this experiment we would be making measurements of the entire world ocean looking at essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean during a five year period . |
| 8 | Vattimo and Rovatti 1983 , Vattimo 1985 , 1987 ) — are recognized as possessing at least a family resemblance to the more general phenomenon of ‘ postmodernism ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's pretty fast and I expect everyone to be going at quite a lick from the start , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Dig to two spade-lengths if possible , adding at least a bucketful of organic matter per square yard . |
| 11 | In other instances the , client company insist on using their own letter heading at least a brand identification . |
| 12 | The unresponsiveness of the V8 T-cell subset is frequent , since it occurred in 55% of the patients studied and longitudinal study of 10 patients indicated an effect lasting at least a year . |
| 13 | A cold snap , lasting at least a week … |
| 14 | In August , a Blackpool Times reporter visited the new depot and reported : ‘ This is an erection of imposing dimensions , with a capability of holding at least a score of cars . |
| 15 | As a rough-and-ready guide , one can think of these gestural usages as requiring at least a video-tape of the speech event if the proper interpretation is to be available from a recording . |
| 16 | In his mind , Roxburgh must have reckoned on getting at least a point in Berne . |
| 17 | For the FA Cup Finalists to go down Sunderland would have to lose their last three matches , with Oxford winning their final game at Tranmere and making up for their inferior goal difference , Plymouth and Newcastle also winning , and Grimsby getting at least a draw . |
| 18 | Jaq tore the cockade loose and pocketed it , for the minor satisfaction of having at least a scrap of the Harlequin man in his grasp . |
| 19 | Overall , we can see groups moving out from Selsey — Chichester , along the Ouse valley from Lewes and out from Hastings , in search of the more fertile areas , creating at least a parish , village and hamlet pattern that later men could build on . |
| 20 | With all five of his rivals carrying at least a stone more than the handicapper intended , he will clearly be very hard to beat . |
| 21 | Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable . |
| 22 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 23 | Many factories are working at only a fraction of capacity . |