Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between . |
| 2 | Ten ratings were chosen to stand at selected points along the way . |
| 3 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 4 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 5 | In planning ward staffing , the ward manager should start with a clear view of the number of staff she is likely to require at various times of the day . |
| 6 | They would move to buy at low prices from those sellers who have not discovered that some buyers are paying high prices . |
| 7 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 8 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 9 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 10 | I want to look at new charges for home care and day care and transportation services for disabled people . |
| 11 | It was agreed at the Hague to enlarge the Community to include Britain and others , to finance CAP by giving the EC its own resources and to look at new areas of co-operation in the economic and political fields . |
| 12 | Miller asset is to look at new ways of tackling formation damage problems in wells — thanks to BP Exploration 's first Well Productivity Awareness School . |
| 13 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |
| 14 | or where the advanced society shows signs of vulnerability in its central value-system , pluralist methods may fail to fully explain persistent conflict because of their limited assumptions of causality and , in particular , because of their unwillingness to look at other manifestations of power in society . |
| 15 | These factors take us beyond the study of language , in a narrow sense , and force us to look at other areas of inquiry — the mind , the body , society , the physical world — in fact , at everything . |
| 16 | To establish this , we have to look at other evidence in the surrounding context . |
| 17 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 18 | Somehow Paul manages to look at other people in three different directions in our reading . |
| 19 | One has just to look at recent results from a number of the Banks to get an idea of the vast profits being made . |
| 20 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 21 | ‘ You only have to look at unmanned stations like Thornaby , Stockton and Seaham to imagine the scale of the problem . |
| 22 | Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth . |
| 23 | After surveying the general scene it is useful to look at existing differences between educators about each of the four main activities . |
| 24 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to look at alternative means of toughening the law on Scotland 's knife thugs after it emerged that urgently-awaited legislation has been edged out of the parliamentary timetable . |
| 25 | If , however , local authorities are going to continue to be responsible for personal social services , then they need to look at alternative methods of service organisation and delivery . |
| 26 | We encouraged group members to look at alternative ways of dealing with feelings , such as talking to a friend , crying , shouting and asserting themselves . |
| 27 | It may be necessary to get the individual to look at alternative ways of approaching and coping with the circumstances of life without work , perhaps trying to ‘ wipe the slate clean ’ and start the process all over again , but with an increased awareness of the problems and difficulties that are involved . |
| 28 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 29 | The technique was made possible by the use of the scanning tunnelling microscope which allows researchers to look at individual atoms on a surface . |
| 30 | ‘ The achievement has important implications for the region as it enables us to look at economic development in a European context . |