Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry .
2 It was agreed that the procedures for data entry would be looked at over the next few months , and further discussions would be held in due course .
3 However , even this situation is not ‘ new ’ if looked at over the longer term .
4 erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that
5 A capital injection from the company 's bank has to be looked at as a probable source of additional finance , although this would mean a secured loan .
6 It must be looked at as a grand community of integrated environment .
7 But the important point here I think , is that this is a corporate , or may be a corporate res responsibility , and therefore my understanding is that the officers are going to look at those parts which may be looked at as a corporate responsibility , and I would therefore erm , assume that one would look at all the C A B services in that light .
8 The emergence of three youngsters from Ibrox , Murray , Hagen and Pressley , could be looked at as an unusual bonus but that initial impression may not necessarily be the correct one .
9 And because this issue is clearly so site related , it seems to me it can not possibly be looked at at a strategic level .
10 We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there .
11 An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on .
12 Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover .
13 So an interval of 10 years will have gone by without his situation being looked at by the local review committee or the parole board .
14 Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 .
15 Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added .
16 Looked at from the Overseas Groups point of view , the pattern would look something like this :
17 So all lines of enquiry in regard to body stance are amenable to alternative explanations , perhaps because the issue is looked at from the wrong perspective .
18 Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view .
19 However , the situation in Leeds needs to be looked at in a national as well as in a local context .
20 There was a feeling that the wider issues needed to be looked at in a national forum .
21 The issues must , however , be looked at in a broader context .
22 Looked at in a different way , a feudal knight would have a squire who carried his armour for him , sharpened up his sword , and polished his boots .
23 A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration .
24 Many of these aspects are looked at in the following chapters .
25 The concern of the writers that we have looked at in the preceding pages are with a number of organisational variables :
26 Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely .
27 This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible .
28 A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have .
29 The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology .
30 Areas to be looked at in the short term are :
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