Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 She stays at the market for 1 hour , then starts to drive home at 40km per hour . |
| 2 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 3 | In this instance , the grammar of BSL is rejected and the parser tends to look only at surface structure and provides word-for-sign matches . |
| 4 | Through detailed village studies the research aims to look critically at problems and opportunities of existing approaches to promoting local institutions ( water users associations , farmer groups etc. ) for common property resource management . |
| 5 | One lane , often heavy traffic , tends to stop while the other continues to rush past at speed and the pedestrians ' view is obscured by the heavy traffic . |