Example sentences of "be [verb] at [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managing director of the family-run firm , Owen Patterson , said : ‘ We are looking at rationalising the workforce but it is not fair to talk about numbers until we have completed discussions with unions . |
| 2 | ‘ We have thought about developing our own commercial but the cost would be prohibitive so we are looking at repeating the success of the ‘ Nature ’ commercial by taking advertisements from other parts of the world . ’ |
| 3 | It was usually solved by arguing that our visual systems use our knowledge of the identity of objects we are looking at to dictate the colours we attribute to them , independently of the wavelength information available at the retina . |
| 4 | not because we 're looking at expanding the service . |
| 5 | We 're looking at maximizing the benefits of the alliance in other parts of the world and not just Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Tilda , who had been vexed at missing the actual shipwreck , went straight down to Willis 's cabin to ask him if he would draw her a picture of it . |
| 7 | The standardised testing of children aged seven and 14 , currently the focus of so much controversy in Britain , will at best tell parents and teachers how well children are doing at learning the facts and basic skills . |
| 8 | First of all ‘ society ’ , as distinct from the State , had to be isolated and analysed , and secondly an attempt had to be made at understanding the evolution of society , since only then would it be possible to understand under what circumstances the State evolved and what its historical significance was . |
| 9 | It 's agreed that we should be looking at improving the standard in D risk areas etc etc etc etc but we should have a higher level of cover , not putting anybody into a suffering situation , quite the reverse that we would have an improved level of of cover within the County and the Chief Officer he 's said this time and time again . |
| 10 | For example , if language difficulties identified from an assessment can be described in terms of a functional analysis , and an environmental deficit , remedial procedures might be directed at rearranging the contingencies in the child 's natural environment . |
| 11 | Fairly obviously , your recommendations should be aimed at correcting the weaknesses you have identified . |
| 12 | These would be aimed at ensuring the blockade of all land , air and sea points of entry [ see pp. 39041 ; 39084 ] . |
| 13 | The proposal , put forward by the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) , appears to be aimed at defusing the strong US opposition on environmental grounds to the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) between Canada , Mexico and the United States . |
| 14 | The first part of this work will accordingly be aimed at elucidating the totality of Nizan 's experience as a communist writer/intellectual in the political and historical context of interwar French society . |
| 15 | Cairngorm sells to the Ministry of Defence and the oil industry as well as to the climbing world , and new markets being looked at include the whole range of marine ropes . |
| 16 | Munro said : ‘ We were looking at finding the right outdoor follow-up to our Loch Lomond concert of 1991 , and were considering various options when the Fleadh approached us . |
| 17 | Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone . |
| 18 | Much of the International 's efforts were directed at reinforcing the resolution of European socialists not to go to war with each other . |
| 19 | By the time you were four and old enough to go to school you were practised at enticing the dogs in to be fed , undetected . |
| 20 | Russian colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were aimed at maximizing the income of the state by the subjection of aboriginal peoples to fur tribute . |
| 21 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 22 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 23 | He said that the government 's actions were aimed at bringing the two states closer and promoting integration . |
| 24 | Many of the proposals for re-establishing full employment in the aftermath of the 1979–81 recession were aimed at increasing the level of demand in the economy . |
| 25 | New fisheries legislation which changed the basis for regulation of Greenland 's shrimp fisheries and attached quasi-property rights to licences to fish were introduced in 1990/91 , and were aimed at tackling the industry 's problems . |
| 26 | Primary or public health standards were aimed at protecting the most susceptible part of the population from adverse effects , with an adequate margin of safety being included , while the more stringent secondary standards were aimed at protecting public welfare , such as damage to vegetation , wildlife , materials , and so on . |
| 27 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 28 | The Praesidium , headed by President Gorbachev , said many of these laws were aimed at strengthening the ‘ economic and political independence and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens ’ . |
| 29 | Specific recommendations were aimed at strengthening the police , in manpower , efficiency and pay , and speeding up the process of amalgamating local forces . |
| 30 | The work is targeted at identifying the fundamental mechanisms governing dermal penetration of chemicals and developing predictive mathematical models . |