Example sentences of "at [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 2 | He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it . |
| 3 | However such applications must be looked at carefully bearing in mind the whole environmental question . |
| 4 | This approach has enormously suggestive potential for analysis of listening , for it fully accepts the significance of new perceptual attitudes and situations while by-passing or at least putting in question the usual , too easy Adorn Ian assumptions of passivity . |
| 5 | As both manoeuvred for position , whether it was cutting down trees and digging up streets in Hanoi or sending ‘ unauthorized ’ French battalions to various strategic points , the risk — and incidence — of clashes increased and both sides were at least preparing for war . |