Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside tests of observation , students would be required to work at different sections in the kitchen : sauce-making ; larder-work ; vegetable-preparation , etc . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To establish this , we have to look at other evidence in the surrounding context . |
| 4 | Somehow Paul manages to look at other people in three different directions in our reading . |
| 5 | Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth . |
| 6 | ‘ The achievement has important implications for the region as it enables us to look at economic development in a European context . |
| 7 | To understand the reasons for this we need to look at penal policy in a wider economic and social framework . |
| 8 | After that we will be ready to look at specific policies in more detail . |
| 9 | We have to look at left criticism in the context of the harsh political climate in which it has had to survive , the resultant lack of opportunities to practice and develop , and the dominance of mainstream criticism and its supporting political ideas . |
| 10 | In these autobiographical investigations , he seems to follow an aim he had noticed in L'Intelligence des Fleurs where , at times , Maeterlinck ‘ seems to be striving to look at scientific facts in a poetical manner … . |
| 11 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 12 | To look at Christian dualism in this way is actually to advance an argument against God , not the Devil , and some people feel that in discrediting God such a view calls into question not only the Devil but the whole of Christianity . |
| 13 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 14 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 15 | With turnover down 27 p.c. to £27.1m , reflecting both the tough trading climate and the group 's reluctance to compete at uneconomic margins in the construction market , profits slumped from £1.83m to £410,000 before providing £775,000 ( £1.2m ) for the fall in land values and reorgnisation costs of £325,000 . |
| 16 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 17 | The murderer has to wink at other children in the room . |
| 18 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 19 | A total of three thousand jobs are to go at British Aerospace in Hertfordshire and the North West . |
| 20 | Although the need for fixed radio relay systems seems likely to remain at current levels in the foreseeable future , any diminution in spectrum availability will have to be compensated for . |
| 21 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 22 | Nigel Jemson is still ruled out along with centre half Peter Shirtliff ( hamstring ) , but full back Roland Nilsson looks set to return at full back in place of John Harkes . |
| 23 | Both need the opportunity to explore beach and castle , to look in on a busy workshop , to wander round a ruin , to wonder at a megalithic monument , to gaze at strange animals in a wildlife park . |
| 24 | I HAVE always had a clear idea of what I hoped to achieve at certain points in my life , which has given me a sense of direction . |
| 25 | Whatever the exact mechanism for U/Pb fractionation , it seems to occur at shallow depths in the mantle at about the time of formation of the local oceanic lithosphere . |