Example sentences of "of [verb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy . |
| 2 | Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey . |
| 3 | For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating . |
| 4 | His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship . |
| 5 | A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department . |
| 6 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 7 | One useful way of looking at this problem is to recall Kuhn 's notion of ‘ normal ’ science ( Kuhn 1962 ; Lakatos and Musgrave 1970 ) . |
| 8 | As feminists , we need to have a way of looking at this work which makes us think about whose shattered lives and suffering produced the money used to pay her for her paintings — namely the poor rural workers of Britain and Ireland and the enslaved African peoples working in the West Indies and the American colonies . |
| 9 | There is another way of looking at this issue . |
| 10 | An alternative way of looking at this phenomenon is to see the field official as a ‘ street-level bureaucrat ’ . |
| 11 | Another way of looking at this conundrum is to compare the market value ( the total value of all the shares ) of the two companies . |
| 12 | For example you might say , ‘ I wonder if there is another way of looking at this situation … ’ or ‘ do you think you might redefine the problem in a different way ’ . |
| 13 | There is another ( and not generally accepted ) way of looking at this situation which may seem more acceptable . |
| 14 | So in in terms of looking at this criterion , can you also er include within your thinking process , the need for the er or the possibility that the development of a new settlement could actually be a positive enhancement of the environment or make use of derelict land . |
| 15 | The government favours using these new tests as a replacement for the current methods of testing at that age for admission to grammar secondary schools ( which emphasise verbal reasoning rather than attainment ) . |
| 16 | ‘ He may have considered the possibility of selling at some stage in the past , ’ she conceded reluctantly . |
| 17 | Essentially what Darwin realized was that sexual dimorphism , particularly where it makes the male spectacularly different from female is not always the outcome of inter-male conflict , very often it is , we saw examples of the films of stags , of erm elephant seals , those kinds of animals where the dimorphic differences appear to be the result of inter-male conflict , for instance elephant seals are seven times heavier , the males are seven times heavier than the females on average because sheer weight is what wins those astonishing battles they have on the beaches when they , they kind of lunge at each other . |
| 18 | Cos it was sort of rationing at that time . |
| 19 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 20 | Fights occur , of course , but conflicts are most often settled by bouts of roaring at each other ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 21 | Today , you can enjoy the challenges and benefits of learning at any time . |
| 22 | It may be generally true that the natural language use which constitutes the goal of learning is realized by a focus on meaning rather than form , and is a matter of top-down rather than bottom-up processing , but the process of arriving at that goal , the development of the authenticating ability , calls for an effective internalization of form and capability of analysis which will allow for their use across a wide and unpredictable range of different contexts . |
| 23 | When you work out the probability of arriving at that point . |
| 24 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 25 | Its membership consisted of Brooke ( still Minister of Housing at that stage ) ; Iain Macleod , the Colonial Secretary ; and John Hare , Minister of Labour . |
| 26 | Congratulations to all graduates and welcome to membership of a special group of people of a wide variety of ages and careers , in all parts of the world who share with you the experience of studying at this University . |
| 27 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 28 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 29 | Say on the subject of shipping at that time . |
| 30 | Er and what was your sort of feeling at that time er about taking such as unofficial action for example ? |