Example sentences of "[verb] by [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expert 's liability in his primary profession is considered by looking at successful actions against members of the same profession in cases where the duty is owed to one party only : for instance , where a valuation is prepared for a buyer and not both buyer and seller . |
| 2 | This concept is then expanded by looking at specific areas within the personnel function which can benefit from this approach , and the various computer solutions to these requirements are reviewed . |
| 3 | We can get an idea of how they might have breathed by looking at modern fish . |
| 4 | The breadth of this review , which goes on to discuss Sir Thomas Elyot 's The Governour and to conclude by looking at immediate reforms applicable in a modern world of ‘ industrial exploitation … ’ where ‘ local community does not exist ’ relates clearly to ‘ East Coker ’ . |
| 5 | Figure 3.5 Chicks feed by pecking at small grains of food . |
| 6 | Consequently , the study of the distribution of power should be analysed by looking at actual decisions and finding out which person(s) or group(s) was ( were ) most responsible for shaping the final outcome of the decision-making process . |
| 7 | Acupuncture conceives of a kind of ‘ bioenergy ’ , which flows along channels in the body and can be manipulated by acting at particular points on those channels ( by needles , heat or pressure ) . |
| 8 | His Lordship begins by looking at direct discrimination under section l(l) ( a ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and concludes that there is no doubt that in general to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant or to refuse to employ a woman of childbearing age because she may become pregnant is unlawful direct discrimination since childbearing and the capacity for childbearing are characteristics of the female sex . |