Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In raising questions about curriculum content and balance , therefore , the balance and disposition of these generic activities must be looked at as searchingly as the balance of subject time . |
| 2 | Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer . |
| 3 | Stressing the apparent universality , intractability and unacceptability of the problem of violence , the theories prominent in Anglo-Saxon lay ideas focus strongly on the irrationality and bestiality of violence … the approach to violence advocated in the discipline of ethology — in which violence is seen at least partly as having genetic determinants — is rather close to Anglo-Saxon folk ideas . |
| 4 | A settlement may be arrived at more usually before proceedings have begun , but may also be arrived at after proceedings have begun . |
| 5 | In a conversation in July with Cloyce K. Huston of the American mission in Japan , MacArthur reverted to his former view that a peace treaty should be arrived at as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Something like a worm is often taken at once even if groundbaiting has not been carried out beforehand . |
| 7 | The door was a scuffed and peeling blue which had probably been painted at least once since the house was built , maybe to celebrate the toilet coming indoors . |
| 8 | A murder inquiry was launched yesterday after Denise 's body was discovered at about 11.30am after staff had arrived to find the pub locked up . |
| 9 | Matthew would need to be hospitalised at least overnight where he could receive further epinephrine if necessary , and his vital signs could be monitored . |
| 10 | In the latter case the passage was read at slightly slower than normal reading rate with care being taken to ensure that inflections or intonation did not carry across sentence boundaries . |