Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 2 | The right wing coalition parties , RPR and UDF , are expected to triumph at the French legislative elections due to take place at the end of this month but , regardless of who wins , the French economy is set to go into recession in the first half of this year with even the most optimistic forecasters predicting zero growth . |
| 3 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 4 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 5 | To make money in engineering contracting you have got to work at the blue chip end of the market , people who want a top class value-for-money service and are prepared to pay a reasonable price for it . |
| 6 | Overall this looks to be a group with the physical and mental resources needed to play at the top level in New Zealand . |
| 7 | You 've got to look at the real situation . |
| 8 | I think we 've got to look at the other side of the |
| 9 | You 've got to look at the other positive thing as well though that if it comes out as a target and there are specific training needs there throughout the |
| 10 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 11 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 12 | In 1987 we were invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in the ‘ Celebrating Age ’ programme , and auditions were held to form a 55+ Team under the direction of Jean Parmiter . |
| 13 | Welsh Water managers have been invited to speak at the annual meeting of Wirral Deewatch at the Friends Meeting House , Telegraph Road , Heswall , next Wednesday night , the day before the petition is presented . |
| 14 | She dramatically resigned after hearing that he has been invited to speak at the Green party conference next month . |
| 15 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 16 | Unless the landlord has opted to tax at the standard rate , there is generally an exempt supply for VAT purposes on the grant of any interest in , right over , or licence to occupy land in the UK ( for example , the grant or assignment of a lease , except an assignment to the landlord ; Sch 6 , Group 1 , item 1 , Note ( 1 ) and Sch 6A , para 2-4 ) . |
| 17 | After John died , when the Girls were asked to appear at the Royal Command Performance , she saw no reason why this show should be any different from the others and stood in her usual place at the side of the stage , hissing corrections at the Girls . |
| 18 | If Ricky was there Perdita might not make a scene , but he had paused to look at the front gate which needed mending . |
| 19 | Cabinet was to be asked to look at the probable growth in the economy , and the amount of tax revenue it wished to generate , and then decide what in total it could afford to spend . |
| 20 | Her friend — for she and Rose had become quite close — had sniffed at Mrs Langtry , and said kindly , ‘ I ‘ ear as ‘ ow she 's a right fat cow these days , ’ and fortunately had not asked to look at the other one she had bought . |
| 21 | The question puzzled me for I had not mentioned Sister Island , nor its old name of Murder Cay , to either the police or to the Defence Forces , nor had Billingsley troubled to look at the pencilled line on the chart , yet he had somehow connected Hirondelle with the mysterious island . |
| 22 | But while he was placed on the ‘ at risk ’ register he was allowed to remain at the foster home at Ysgubor Esgob , a smallholding near Gwalchmai . |
| 23 | Students should be encouraged to look at the other information in the financial accounting system to see if it would be helpful for managers in terms of monitoring , planning or control . |
| 24 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |
| 25 | Since the possession of the knife was not in itself illegal , the jury should have been directed to look at the accused 's intent . |
| 26 | The rain passed and we took off , only to be forced to land at the military airbase at Butterworth . |
| 27 | Since Britten 's death in 1976 Sir Peter has continued to live at the Red House where he observes with sometimes amused and sometimes astonished eyes , the considerable development of the Britten-Pears Library and the Britten Archive . |
| 28 | Both sported a magnificent moustache , both wore a ten-gallon hat and both were dressed to kill at the Golden Boot Awards for Westerns in Beverly Hills last night . |
| 29 | BUFFALO TOM , THOUSAND YARD STARE and SKAW are confirmed to appear at the final night of NME 's Viva Eight gigs . |
| 30 | Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man . |