Example sentences of "[subord] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor . |
| 2 | TRACE II has no choice but to start at the beginning and work rightwards , since input directed to feature detectors automatically results in activity at the phonetic and lexical levels through the hard-wired connections . |
| 3 | A man who is so abnormal as to weep at the death of his wife is said to be behaving illogically . |
| 4 | How could he be so offensive as to stare at the chap 's disfigured face , he wondered . |
| 5 | Alternatively the retained profit could be deducted from a calculation of the profit and loss account balance carried forward so as to arrive at the profit and loss account brought forward . |
| 6 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 7 | His project is to discover the series of computations that the visual system performs on the input-pairs so as to arrive at an interpretation of the ( 2-D ) array in terms of ( 3-D ) replacement , motion , or change . |
| 8 | The writer Valentin Rasputin , reflecting some of these concerns , went so far as to complain at the Congress of People 's Deputies in 1989 of ‘ Russophobia ’ on the part of other nationalities . |