Example sentences of "in [v-ing] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls . |
| 2 | By the time of the committee 's first meeting on March 5 controversy had mounted further still as allegations were made that " names " working inside Lloyd 's had an unfair advantage in trading at the insurance market . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , there are readers who are more interested in laughing at the past than in understanding it ; if they find disease and human suffering good for a giggle as well ; if they think that a sort of free association of ideas is a good substitute for historical explanation ; and if they are unperturbed by gross defects of style and grammar , then they will enjoy Andrew Nikiforuk 's The Fourth Horseman : A Short History of Epidemics , Plagues and Other Scourges . |
| 4 | Wolfe puts his argument as follows : ‘ What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of the New York Times saying : In looking at a painting today , ‘ to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial ’ . |
| 5 | No point in looking at a gift horse till you see the whites of its eyes , etcetera . |
| 6 | Nonetheless the key to understanding this formalist revolution might lie in looking at the content of proto- and early modernist works . |
| 7 | In looking at the industries in which black workers work , we are only examining the kind of work they do — what industry they are employed in . |
| 8 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 9 | Indeed , in looking at the structuring in a different guise , we have got erm , something less than seven percent of total costs , that relate to erm , indirect management and administrative costs . |
| 10 | I think environmental discount and environmental considerations are factors which we 'll come back to in in looking at the migration rates , so you 're going to have another shot at this one . |
| 11 | It has also helped in looking at the functions of the business in outline . |
| 12 | In looking at the way in which schools and colleges were managed after the 1988 Act , the Commission pointed out that LEAs would have a less directive role but would still have to monitor the services of schools and colleges . |
| 13 | For example , in looking at the way in which primary-school teachers respond to new ideas in environmental study and mathematics , Briault and West ( 1990:20 ) pointed out that teachers came to understand environmental studies more fully by engaging in such work [ i.e. action learning ] , became more confident about investigative approaches in mathematics by undertaking problem-solving activities in a supportive , non-threatening climate . |
| 14 | In looking at the child as a whole person , the involvement of the child 's parents is essential . |
| 15 | In looking at the services to be provided , it is recognised that some duties require a more responsible level of staff than others . |
| 16 | Too often time on site is absorbed in dealing with contractor 's queries rather than in looking at the work . |
| 17 | This involves students in the examination of conflicts between and within societies , and draws on the insights of political scientists , historians , social scientists and philosophers in looking at the origin and nature of such conflicts and the means of resolving them . |
| 18 | But first , in looking at the history of classical principles in the previous chapters I have left loose ends untied and contradictions unresolved . |
| 19 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 20 | In looking at the size of endowments for these houses it is important to recognize the wider benefits that are secured . |
| 21 | The remainder of the meeting was spent in looking at the Grid on which visitors envisaged were placed with Regions for Primary ( ten days to a fortnight ) or Secondary ( 5-7 days ) periods . |
| 22 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 23 | In looking at the process of database creation , the value of databases in the school library will be seen to extend beyond immediate access to specific information . |
| 24 | Maxfield ( 1987 ) in looking at the fear of crime , found that this profoundly affected a minority of people 's lives . |
| 25 | I would say that it 's a general applicability and it er governs the erm size that one should have regard to potentially in looking at the matter from the local plan point of view . |
| 26 | The two essential parts in looking at the adequacy of the diet are : |
| 27 | In looking at the importance of studying aspects of speech above the segmental level some writers have claimed that learners can come to identify an overall ‘ feel ’ of the pronunciation of the language being learned . |
| 28 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |
| 29 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 30 | It seems that the church could perhaps take a lead in looking at the implications of suicide , and at possible ways of providing services to try and prevent it . |