Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an heirloom from the time of King Alexander 1 ‘ Philhellene ’ as he was later called ; it was a prize won at the Argive Games to Hera ( SEG xxix 652 , cp. xi 330 = xxx 52 ) . |
| 2 | He was educated at the grammar schools of Lostwithiel and Plymouth , and tutored by the Revd Thomas Byrth [ q.v. ] of Diptford , before matriculating at Oxford in 1824 . |
| 3 | Before the double dais sat a small , slight , unimpressive man who frequently could not recall , sometimes could not hear and peered at the briefing books through wire-rimmed glasses . |
| 4 | We stopped at the traffic lights at the junction of Wymark Street and McEwan Street opposite St. Michael 's Church . |
| 5 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 6 | You were n't expected at the tennis courts at all , were you ? ’ |
| 7 | In a conscious break from recent lengthy works such as his trilogy ‘ In Penumbria ’ , ‘ Nexus ’ and ‘ An Adjustment of Expectations ’ , in ‘ Beach Bodies ’ Adrian Gatie glances at the summer visitors to our beaches . |
| 8 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 9 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 10 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 11 | By looking at the kinship terms of a society one could therefore know by this means what had been the previous kinship system , practised in the past by the people concerned . |
| 12 | The Commission , for example , is looking at the price differentials of the same car models in different member states — a campaign which CA initiated many years ago . |
| 13 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 14 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 15 | The other one , vaguely at the back of my mind it was raised this morning cos I recall Mr made a comment on it , and that is erm looking at the growth implications beyond two thousand and six . |
| 16 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 17 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 18 | We 'll be looking at the market leaders in the four most popular areas — word processing , spreadsheets , databases and utilities . |
| 19 | Today he was quiet all right , standing and looking at the weather maps with the rest of his crew , smoking a cigarette with jerky hands . |
| 20 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
| 21 | Further endorsement will be sought at the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Kuala Lumpur next week , and at the General Assembly of the United Nations . |
| 22 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 23 | In June 1980 , Buster 's gonads had n't grown , Roger Mellie was still an eager trainee at the telly , Sid the sexist was leering at the dinner ladies in junior school and Mrs. Grady was n't such an old lady . |
| 24 | Yet another industry consortium has been born in the shape of SGML Open , which brings together electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies to educate the commercial market about the advantages of the language and provide information to help organisations to implement the standard ; and to provide a forum where vendors can resolve issues in applying the standard to real-world application by providing guidelines : the announcement of the formal founding , organisational structure and proposed programme will be made at the Seybold Seminars in Boston in April ; the backers believe that the language has the potential to do for document-based information what SQL has done for databases . |
| 25 | Yet for all her passionate dedication to public service she also knew how to enjoy herself and as an elderly lady was often seen at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo in the late 1920s , savouring to the full the social pleasures made possible by her unique commercial success . |
| 26 | By this method the speed discriminator settings are positioned at the crossover points of the torque/speed/switching angle characteristic ( Fig. 7.7 ) . |
| 27 | Look at the presentation screens in games like Continental Circus , Ivan ‘ Iron Man ’ Steward and Smash TV . |
| 28 | Confronted by a section in a Quaternary deposit there are physical geographers who would devote all their time to the analysis of the sediment characteristics and not look at the space relationships of the feature in which the deposit occurs , and there are others who would deliberate about morphological evolution without closely investigating the sediment . |
| 29 | Look at the work spaces at your disposal . |
| 30 | Alternatively , you look at the map references of the two towns on a one mile grid ; say they are ( 63,27 ) and ( 103,57 ) . |