Example sentences of "of [v-ing] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , from a letter of 1867 : " most philologists lack that elevating total view of antiquity , because they stand too close to the picture and investigate a patch of paint , instead of gazing at the big , bold brushstrokes of the whole painting and — what 's more — enjoying them … " ; and " … our whole mode of working is quite horrible . |
| 2 | In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music , and many famous singers were his pupils . |
| 3 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 4 | If there is no wool available to them , cats with an urge to re-create the pleasures of sucking at the maternal nipple have been known to suck their own fur , sometimes their feet and sometimes the tips of their tails ; or they occasionally develop a fixation on their owner 's hair and make repeated attempts to suck on that , if they are given half a chance . |
| 5 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 6 | Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused . |
| 7 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 8 | In conclusion , Jones notes the potential value of explicit instruction on the nature of writing at the preschool level for subsequent success in school . |
| 9 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 10 | In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field , the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton . |
| 11 | Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships . |
| 12 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 13 | ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) . |
| 14 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 15 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 16 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 17 | Tired of looking at the blank wall at the side of the house , he asked students from the Cheltenham Art College to submit ideas on decoration . |
| 18 | In our near-sighted way of looking at the stratigraphical column , we tend to forget that these recent events , if considered on the normal geological time-scale , were virtually instantaneous and certainly catastrophic . |
| 19 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 20 | Through our experience and knowledge derived from sales in the area we are able to ensure that you have the greatest chance of selling at the highest figure . |
| 21 | Thus the swing towards maintaining primary schools today is evidence of a change of heart although this conflicts with the Government 's policy of economising at the Regional level . |
| 22 | ‘ Steady , Dr. Stevie , ’ Patrick warned , as he showed every sign of rushing at the next shot . |
| 23 | Even worse , some think public relations stands in the way of getting at the real facts . |
| 24 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 25 | It moves towards the acceptance of belonging at the same time to a larger enterprise which combines the strengths of sharing and collaboration and the sharpness of keeping an eye out for one 's own survival . |
| 26 | They contrast with the ‘ reluctant commuters ’ of more limited means , forced to live in villages for the sake of buying at the cheaper end of the housing market . |
| 27 | I think we have got to sort out these problems of restructuring at the same time as those of market and state regulation . |
| 28 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 29 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 30 | The ‘ great and the good in serried ranks ’ at the Royal College of Physicians heard clinicians from different specialties confront managers with the problems of rationing at the clinical interface . |