Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 2 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 3 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 4 | It analyses the problem of marketing to multi-individual buying structures , and concludes by looking at the applications of industrial purchase behaviour models . |
| 5 | In either case the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere and the lithosphere as a whole becomes thinner ( Fig. 4.5(B) ) . |
| 6 | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed . |
| 7 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 8 | Quite often , this begins with looking at the enticing pictures in the catalogues . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the lawyer can only respond to knowledge that has already been established ; he has little scientific imagination , especially when it comes to pushing at the frontiers of advancing aerodynamics or similar matters . |
| 10 | It begins by looking at the Reagan record in such areas as pollution control , natural resource management and energy , at the administration 's attitudes to the international environment ( it wants to cut its contribution to the UN Environment Programme by 70 per cent ) and at the massacre of the Council on Environmental Quality ( two thirds of its budget and four fifths of its staff chopped ) . |
| 11 | This chapter begins by looking at the formation of groups , and the emergence of roles , norms and control devices . |
| 12 | It begins by looking at the ideas of lecturers , but is primarily concerned with the meanings that ‘ physics ’ or ‘ physical science ’ have for students , and the ways in which those meanings are sometimes at odds with the experience of studying those subjects . |
| 13 | This section begins by looking at the changing fate of old people during the past century as they have retired . |
| 14 | This section begins by looking at the role of sales and market forecasting in the operation of the business . |