Example sentences of "of [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 In 1949 he became professor of singing at that academy .
2 Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable .
3 ‘ Hey , Phil , ’ he called , ‘ did you ever think of dying at all ?
4 As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all .
5 Even in the throes of laughing at some remark passed by Grace Bird , Bunny watched Geoffrey .
6 When atrocious weather precludes any possibility of climbing at all , it 's worth descending a ‘ comfortable ’ distance down the terrace to witness the natural turmoil taking place in the inlet between Stennis and neighbouring Bosherston Head ; a simultaneously exhilarating and sobering sight .
7 For sheer enjoyment of climbing at this standard the routes on the Clapis sector the Dentelles de Montmirail take some beating .
8 The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve .
9 ‘ We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French , Mr Lewis . ’
10 That there are different ways of looking at such constitutional niceties is amusingly illustrated by a story S.E. Finer reports as once going the rounds of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe :
11 I I think there 's another way of looking at that .
12 His remarks are interesting because they demonstrate a new way of looking at that relationship .
13 I got so sick of looking at that .
14 A as a result of looking at that information , the collators department .
15 ‘ Broadhurst 's Wager is the correct way round of looking at these things , an apt reversal of the sophistries of that anorexic apostate , scribbling on his Post-it notelets .
16 It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much .
17 Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device .
18 Another way of looking at this conundrum is to compare the market value ( the total value of all the shares ) of the two companies .
19 One rather crude way of looking at this is as follows .
20 For example you might say , ‘ I wonder if there is another way of looking at this situation … ’ or ‘ do you think you might redefine the problem in a different way ’ .
21 There is another way of looking at this issue .
22 There is another ( and not generally accepted ) way of looking at this situation which may seem more acceptable .
23 I think the best way of looking at this is to kind of take an open-ended version of what the Vienna settlement is all about .
24 There seem to be two major ways of looking at this .
25 An alternative way of looking at this is to posit another principle also universally present in human intercourse .
26 One useful way of looking at this problem is to recall Kuhn 's notion of ‘ normal ’ science ( Kuhn 1962 ; Lakatos and Musgrave 1970 ) .
27 An alternative way of looking at this phenomenon is to see the field official as a ‘ street-level bureaucrat ’ .
28 Different qualities and complexes of qualities are registered by me in a temporally extended sequence ; none the less , they are all part of the wider experience of looking at this same bunch of flowers which I assume to exist " out there " .
29 There are two ways of looking at this more general question : it is either an opportunity or a trap .
30 There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane
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