Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's more to getting the chop than meets the eye , as Gill Kersley looks at blocks across the board |
| 2 | There is therefore no national study which also looks at students in the traditional university sector , and further comparative studies would be useful to help strengthen the conclusions which can be drawn . |
| 3 | In contrast , some sort of appeal to , say , the authority of the government executive ( although in practice often the implicit outcome ) looks at odds with the individualistic framework of neoclassical economics . |
| 4 | The survey looks at changes in the number of medical men in practice during this period , and at their career structures , training , qualifications , practices and appointments . |
| 5 | The second-year economic history course looks at changes in the world economy between 1750 and 1914 while the second-year social history course studies world urbanisation from antiquity to the present day . |
| 6 | Robert Rudhall looks at plans for the Brooklands Museum in its first full year of opening . |
| 7 | Further work looks at links between the pattern of business development and family and community structure among Afro-Caribbeans and Cypriots in North London and Pakistanis in Birmingham . |
| 8 | Chapter 10 looks at outcomes considering the degree results , and analysing them in comparison with other students in the same course by type of degree , university and age . |
| 9 | This Update looks at aspects of the new beginning , from an individual view of the validation process to an account of how new national units are developed . |
| 10 | This project looks at aspects of the migrants ' housing experience , using aggregate statistics to establish general tenure patterns and interviews to recreate biographical histories . |
| 11 | Friday looks at jobs in the legal profession . |
| 12 | A further complicating factor is that English interference in BSL occurs at times under the guise of improving the English skills of deaf people , so that the interlanguage ( a variable form of signed English ) may be given a higher status than the original language . |
| 13 | Addressing the problem of finding a clear definition of the principle of subsidiarity , an annex declared that it " contributes to the respect for the national identities of member states and safeguards their powers " and that " it aims at decisions within the European Union being taken as closely as possible to the citizen " . |
| 14 | My view about the Matsushita response is simply that the Japanese higher education system generally requires knowledge of English , which seems at odds with the Technics explanation . |
| 15 | Informalisation or permissiveness is seen as involving increasingly less regulation and less formality over rules of conduct , a relaxation in standards that seems at odds with the civilising movement identified by Elias . |
| 16 | The rhetoric of most Third World governments and radical researchers on the damage done by FDI in general and specific TNCs in particular , seems at odds with the almost universal scramble of these same Third World governments advised by ( in some cases ) the same radical researchers to create policies to attract more and more FDI into their countries . |
| 17 | For the third time this greatest of Scottish Protestant heroes , whose name has lived for four centuries as the architect of Scottish religious life ( not to say the strict bleakness of that life ) , whose statue in Edinburgh gazed balefully down on the meeting between pope and moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk in 1982 , and whose inordinately lofty statue in the Glasgow Necropolis lours at patients in the upper stories of the Royal Infirmary , made a strenuous effort not to return to his native country at all . |
| 18 | The frontier between France and Spain runs along the estuary of the Bidassoa and then for some little way along the river itself , until it turns at right-angles to the east , leaving the Bidassoa exclusively to Spain . |
| 19 | Joe Asnett never shuts at weekends till the last bugger drops . |
| 20 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 21 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 22 | With 1992 being a significant date when the customs controls at frontiers within the European Community are abolished it is anticipated there will be an increase in the transportation of goods by road from the beginning of 1993 . |
| 23 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |