Example sentences of "by [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seldom asked for advice and never took it , but Mona knew how to disguise mere advice by scoffing at any other conclusion but her own . |
| 2 | Of course , Miss Kenton can not hope by returning at this stage ever to retrieve those lost years , and it will be my first duty to impress this upon her when we meet . |
| 3 | This can be borne out by looking at many of the resources available — often well-produced , informative and written from a sympathetic point of view but lacking depth . |
| 4 | We estimated the count er by looking at each individual section at low power and collecting the three most vascular areas . |
| 5 | We arranged it all just by looking at each other . ’ |
| 6 | Even more insulation is given by looking at all things from the transcendent level , for then each event is looked at as if it is seen through coloured lenses that transfigure it and place it in another dimension and time . |
| 7 | Held : By looking at all the circumstances , it was clear that Leonard was self-employed . |
| 8 | You 've got , you 'd have to decide , but by looking at that , you could then start to tick off the things that that would help to solve . |
| 9 | If I wanted to get the highest allocation to units would I pay level or escalating premiums by looking at that table ? |
| 10 | After that the total amounts , or even a bit more if we look at it , erm , what over factor , Janet , no John , it must be John 's turn now , affects the allocation to units in those first four years by looking at that table . |
| 11 | Yet the January , February , March the temperature is high which is temperature I ca n't tell by looking at that , which one 's temperature and which one 's rainfall . |
| 12 | One way we can examine the nature and extent of Jacobite sympathies amongst the populace is by looking at those who got into trouble with the law for Jacobite disaffection . |
| 13 | It is impossible by looking at any structure to work out how it developed . |
| 14 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 15 | Whereas by looking at these exceptions we are able to perceive that the pattern itself is complex and produced by multiple factors . |
| 16 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |
| 17 | By looking at these developing years and investigating the transformations which take place you are entering new territories which begin to examine in earnest the role of the media and the effects stereotyping which influences us all . |
| 18 | We conclude our accounts of each approach by looking at some of its distinctive variants to demonstrate the range of options in the neo-Marxist literature . |
| 19 | We begin by looking at some of the fundamental assumptions on which housing policy is based , present government housing policy , the various forms of housing tenure in Britain , and the particular problems for women that these forms of tenure raise . |
| 20 | Erm so I 'll start by looking at some of the er factors . |
| 21 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |
| 22 | However , a student with this award who has achieved better performance by taking additional , more demanding modules can be distinguished by looking at this or her Record of Education and Training . |
| 23 | Most people manage to avoid these areas like the plague , though they would n't have been bothered by stagediving at all — so I 'm afraid that Wiz 's well-intentioned argument that people can go near the front when there are no stagedivers fails . |
| 24 | I venture to write and enquire if you would oblige me by calling at this Officer , at some time convenient to yourself : I am not at liberty to offer any further information at this juncture , but I think I may say that our meeting will be to your advantage . |
| 25 | They start by roaring at each other . |
| 26 | By taking seriously Eliot 's debt to the French symbolistes ( as before him only Allen Tate had done , in The New Republic , 30 June 1926 ) , Wilson was still stressing Eliot 's Americanness by showing at any rate how un-British he was . |
| 27 | Sometimes they assume that such relations can be altered by intervening at this purely psychological level . |