Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 2 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 3 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 4 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 5 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 6 | Last spring Nelson Mandela was released and the USSR began to split apart at the seams . |
| 7 | And he especially wants to encourage female football players to join : ‘ We do n't get the response we should from the girls it would be nice to see more at the schools . ’ |
| 8 | Is it not time to look afresh at the foundations of our laws in relation to mental illness with a view to making the central focus that of providing a framework whereby those whose judgment is so impaired by their illness that they are unable to recognise the need for treatment will receive such treatment in as humane , sensitive and effective a way as possible . |
| 9 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 10 | However , to look only at the persons who were the actual depositors would not be satisfactory . |
| 11 | In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself . |
| 12 | I I I have to say that I I I I 'm not enthusiastic about using this which is so obviously at a report in support of the particular locations , to look objectively at the criteria . |
| 13 | If they are receiving thousands of pounds as members of Cardiff Bay development corporation , they are unlikely to look dispassionately at the interests of their wards . |
| 14 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 15 | It relates to that other world , the great shabby confusion outside these walls to which I return each evening , to Timmy and Cheryl , to my mother-in-law who comes to help out at the weekends , to everything unresolved and unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | However , he had continued to look regularly at the newspapers for other vacancies . |
| 17 | We have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users |
| 18 | In the UK we have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users , let alone ask their views , and community care encourages this approach to service delivery . |
| 19 | In analysing political action — that is to say , struggles for power — we need to look primarily at the activities of social groups rather than the actions of individuals , although the influence of particular individuals may evidently be a significant factor in some historical situations . |
| 20 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 21 | Er the reason for the get-together is for us to look closely at the aspirations of the group within the immediate future , and taking us forward three to five years . |
| 22 | Dr Vaughan , whose firm employs 3,800 , had asked the MP to look closely at the cuts issue . |
| 23 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will take the case to his colleagues in the Council of Ministers and ask them to look again at the proposals , which would be damaging not only to British industry but to industries — including tourism — right across the Community . |
| 24 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 25 | The Jockey Club has announced it is to look again at the appeals procedure available to parties involved in disciplinary hearings . |
| 26 | With the franchise bids for Channel 3 close to completion and the date set for the advertising of Channel 5 franchises it is timely to look again at the possibilities in the new channel , and in particular at the potential for ‘ city television ’ . |
| 27 | It seems essential to look explicitly at the implications of the interpretation of normalisation for professional styles of working . |
| 28 | Booksellers should begin to look seriously at the possibilities of stocking multimedia products , or run the risk of losing out to consumer electronics retailers and an erosion of their market . |
| 29 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 30 | Neither the neo-Nazi thugs nor the Republicans who threaten to do well at the polls next year point to anything like a return to the days of Hitler . |