Example sentences of "at [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 27 government spokesperson Yuan Mu was hissed at during a packed meeting with Beijing University students on current events when he said that China would not deviate from the socialist road , despite current events in Romania [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't abide things you have to peer at through a magnifying glass before you can see them , ’ he said , and pulled open the bottom drawer . |
| 3 | That is in itself a problem , for nothing in the arguments to explain the decline suggests why the fall in fertility should stop at about a two-child family , rather than ‘ overshoot ’ and decline still further ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 4 | A capital injection from the company 's bank has to be looked at as a probable source of additional finance , although this would mean a secured loan . |
| 5 | It must be looked at as a grand community of integrated environment . |
| 6 | Well every domestic I go to , I look at as a potential murder . |
| 7 | But the important point here I think , is that this is a corporate , or may be a corporate res responsibility , and therefore my understanding is that the officers are going to look at those parts which may be looked at as a corporate responsibility , and I would therefore erm , assume that one would look at all the C A B services in that light . |
| 8 | Notwithstanding the best efforts of the distinguished panel , the findings were arrived at after a one-sided presentation of evidence and argument . |
| 9 | Or , again , a new discovery might be arrived at after a long series of observations and calculations , as exemplified by Kepler 's discoveries of his laws of planetary motion . |
| 10 | There was a feeling that the wider issues needed to be looked at in a national forum . |
| 11 | Here are some of the main basic devices : [ quote ] Looked at in a cold light , most of these devices seem pretty silly , if not worse . |
| 12 | Looked at in a different way , a feudal knight would have a squire who carried his armour for him , sharpened up his sword , and polished his boots . |
| 13 | But everybody you see now , you look at in a different light . |
| 14 | Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property . |
| 15 | When asked what happened , 62% said they were touched in a sensual way ; 42% experienced someone touching their sex organs ; 33% were masturbated ; 28% were forced to show their sex organs to another person ; 25% were shown another person 's sex organs ; 24% touched another person 's sex organs ; 21% were talked to about sex in an erotic way ; 21% were shown pornographic material ; 16% took part in oral sex ; 10% were flashed at in a public place ; 5% were involved in sexual intercourse ( sometimes including anal sex ) ; and 3% were involved in kissing in a sensual way . |
| 16 | please sir , I want some more , the master of the but he turned very pale and then he what , said the master at in a stern voice , please sir , replied Oliver I want some more , the master glare at Oliver 's head with the ladle |
| 17 | The Construction Skills Training Programme is based at in a purpose-built centre that can provide facilities for all aspects of training for the construction industry . |
| 18 | But looked at from a Roman point of view , the papacy is not one system of Church government among others . |
| 19 | Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis . |
| 20 | ‘ I thing it is my forte to take something like a relationship , and then examine it and mirror it in different songs , it 's actually the same relationship but looked at from a different way . |
| 21 | This evolutionary argument appeals to continuities between humans and other animals , looked at from a human point of view . |
| 22 | Looked at on a year-by-year basis , the sum of money we must set aside to pay for decommissioning represents only 4% of our annual turnover . |
| 23 | When looked at on a year-to-year basis , our diets may very little . |
| 24 | Which if any of these magazines do you read or look at on a regular basis ? |
| 25 | And because this issue is clearly so site related , it seems to me it can not possibly be looked at at a strategic level . |
| 26 | I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger . |
| 27 | Then the sleeve of Dot 's coat was clawed at by a long briar . |
| 28 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 29 | Early starts and early finishes are arrived at by a forward pass through the network . |
| 30 | Well camouflaged stick insects , whose concealment has for once failed to work and who are about to be snapped at by a hungry predator , will suddenly flick open their brightly coloured wings in a dramatically unexpected display that may shock the enemy into retreat . |