Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [noun] that " in BNC.
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1 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
2 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
3 | The second finding looks at the impact that CNN has had on the viewing of news . |
4 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
5 | James Chapman looks at the advances that have since been made in diver deployment and recovery . |
6 | Thus Gandalf says at the start that the Ring will ‘ possess ’ and ‘ devour ’ any creature who uses it , while Elrond later goes further and says ‘ The very desire of it corrupts the heart ’ ( I , 281 ) . |
7 | However , the weakness of setting out to find a compromise is that each side assumes at the start that its own view is the one to be preferred . |
8 | The breach occurs at the moment that the act causes the harm . |
9 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
10 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
11 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
12 | One of the boys , now adult , tells me that even today he shivers at the thought that is etched on his brain of being chased by a ghost on a motorcycle … |
13 | It is only at the end of the poem that Mariana finally despairs at the realisation that her lover will not come . |
14 | And he laughs at the idea that the Prince of Darkness will now become King of the Castle . |
15 | This hits at the doctrine that Parliament can not bind , or curtail , the powers of future parliaments . |
16 | straight through Smith 's hand , this time , I 'm sure that 's the Stewart a little in fact shies at the stumps that 's the bowlers in , was well home . |
17 | He rejoices at the fact that they started off with small-town views , and began thinking globally . |
18 | A computer manager with the Scottish Examination Board , Mr Fisher chuckles at the thought that he is ‘ fighting my boss 's boss ’ . |