Example sentences of "by [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 2 | Warmer fluid escaped through the interfacial region above the sedimenting layer and enhanced the convection driven by cooling at the roof . |
| 3 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 4 | One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title . |
| 5 | However , frequently , the kind of questions we want to ask of the data are deeper than would be answered simply by looking at a cross-tabulation . |
| 6 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 7 | Both are bound up with the awareness and sensitivity aroused by looking at a flower or a tree ; an insect or a bird ; the environment in which they live . |
| 8 | Now , so we can actually distinguish between the two policies , which are very similar in lots of ways , we 're going to start again by looking at a video . |
| 9 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 10 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 11 | The second thing I found quickly by looking at a newspaper in a coffee-shop : the day 's date . |
| 12 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 13 | We will illustrate fourth normal form by looking at a relation which is in first normal form and which contains information about modules , lecturers and text books . |
| 14 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 15 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 16 | The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication . |
| 17 | As the Director explains in the preface , the exhibition was selected by looking at a number of separate modes of work , subject areas and photographic media . |
| 18 | The following chapters will attempt to outline some of the main features of discourse organization by looking at a number of factors which constrain or aid the way we produce and understand text . |
| 19 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 20 | The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas . |
| 21 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 22 | It is , therefore , all the more important to round off this discussion of the privileging of the gaze by looking at the work of critics who positioned themselves outside the psychoanalytical framework . |
| 23 | In the first term pupils are introduced to the skill of reconstructing the past by looking at the work of the archaeologist and the historian . |
| 24 | The court approaches the question by looking at the wording of the contract and whether the expert 's work has followed what the parties had agreed . |
| 25 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 26 | Finally , noting the prominence of assertions to the contrary , by Conservative speakers , we will conclude this chapter by looking at the relationship between crime and unemployment . |
| 27 | An individual facilitator 's performance can be viewed by looking at the percentage of ideas that move successfully from one stage to the next ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 28 | I started by looking at the chromosome patterns , of course — remember the men who are born with an extra Y chromosome , who show aggressive behavior and antisocial tendencies . |
| 29 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 30 | As we are particularly interested in the influences on women who choose science , we shall begin by looking at the women 's experiences of single-sex education . |