Example sentences of "for [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 2 | Bereiter 's mention of syntax provides a timely cue for looking at another area of research into writing development which , it was hoped , would give us clear indicators of development through the years of schooling . |
| 3 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 4 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 5 | All along they were also aware that brains were composed of living cells that were active in non-electrical ways as well , but until recently the techniques for looking at this other activity were not available . |
| 6 | The reasons for looking at this change and , I quote the reports the the ways the district council interpret the existing clause about provi , precedency is the district council ah , interpret in very different ways . |
| 7 | By ensuring adequate representation of sentencers from all levels of court , in addition to other professionals with experience of the penal system , he suggests that such a body would be capable of developing realistic guidance for sentencing at all levels that should at the same time be acceptable to sentencers themselves . |
| 8 | Visitors to Chris Martin 's house in Cheltenham might be forgiven for shivering at all the slithering going on among the selection of snakes which share his semi . |
| 9 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 10 | And most strikingly , an extremely lovely binding of multi-coloured boards and a textured jacket with the title indented , white on white ; the finishing touch is not one but three place-marking ribbons , for reading at several different levels . |
| 11 | Now it is quite likely that there are two alternative pathways for arriving at that same end-product , each needing six different enzymes , and with nothing to choose between the two of them . |
| 12 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 13 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall give reasons for arriving at any decisions mentioned in section 5(2) of this Act when required to do so under subsection ( 2 ) below . |
| 14 | This is not the wild , undisciplined intellectual orgy that the name implies but a more systematic and proven method for arriving at some of the most likely solutions to a given problem or set of problems . |
| 15 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
| 16 | At one extreme , there are species that live in the sea and never move , such as bivalve molluscs , and others that do move , such as starfish , in which the sexes do not really associate for breeding at all . |
| 17 | Hegarty also attacked the NIHT for the letting policy on its Belmont estate where , of 185 families , 48 were from outside the Derry area , 25 were policemen and 71 had made applications after 1 January 1959 : ‘ That makes 144 families who should never have been considered for housing at all , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The reader may be forgiven for thinking at this stage that , given the weaknesses in much project work , the solution would be to abandon it altogether . |
| 19 | The centre of the garden was to be paved , leaving irregular borders for planting at either side . |
| 20 | Thanks for trying at all . ’ |
| 21 | I make no excuse for quoting at some length from the Chatrier newsletter ‘ I have always said that the biggest problem we face in tennis is that there is too much money around . |