Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 2 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 3 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 4 | After training at the School of Military Engineering , Chatham , he served in the Boer war ( 1901–2 ) and then in Chatham ( 1904 ) , Bermuda ( 1904–7 ) , Harwich ( 1907–9 ) , and Ireland ( 1909–12 ) , before passing top into the Staff College at Camberley in 1912 . |
| 5 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 6 | In most situations , therefore , it is sufficient to disinfect after cleaning at the end of each work cycle . |
| 7 | After arriving at the quantity of paper needed ( allowing for wastage ) I would descend to the cellar , bring up the paper , and cut it to size on our huge hand-powered guillotine whilst the two others would be hand-setting the copy handed them by me on a clip , for their guidance . |
| 8 | After studying at the University of St Andrews , he went to Christ 's College , Cambridge , in 1867 , transferring to St Catharine 's in 1870 , and received a BA in 1871 . |
| 9 | The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory . |
| 10 | Before getting to grips with the corporatism as such , it is worth looking at the idea of the local state . |
| 11 | Puritans found a number of the liturgical features of the established church , such as bowing at the name of Jesus and the sign of the cross in baptism , highly offensive . |
| 12 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 13 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 14 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 15 | ‘ When the film opened , ’ recalled Crawford 's wife , Gabrielle' , ‘ we did our usual thing of driving at the crack of dawn to the air terminal to get the early newspapers . |
| 16 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 17 | Almost immediately , a flourishing black-market in foodstuffs sprang up which allowed those with money , influence or access to scarce goods to have a slightly better standard of living at the expense of those with none of these commodities . |
| 18 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 19 | A useful way of looking at the development of groups was made by B. Tuckman in 1965 . |
| 20 | However , there is another way of looking at the phenomenon of life , and that is in terms of consciousness . |
| 21 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 22 | There are other ways of looking at the culture of executive search firms . |
| 23 | ( Another implication of this way of looking at the origin of moral talk is that the child will learn her primary duties in familial contacts with her parents , close friends , relations , and the family pets . |
| 24 | He had also paid a substantial price for the pleasure , not merely of looking at the corpse of the idea of a centre party , but of stamping upon it several times over . |
| 25 | In a volume commemorating Darwin 's death , I have tried to show how his way of looking at the behaviour of individual plants in nature can be extended . |
| 26 | It does not , in any obvious way , require any supernatural warrant , while it is less arbitrary or relativistic than other secular ways of looking at the content of morality . |
| 27 | There are two main ways of looking at the question of advertising effectiveness — the first is to consider the results of the advertising in achieving target improvements in specific tasks eg increasing brand awareness in a specific market ; the second is to consider the impact of advertising on sales generally . |
| 28 | Points 6 and 7 advocate what is regarded by many as an opposite way of looking at the purpose of RE . |
| 29 | It is a matter of looking at the extent of the actual breach which has occurred . |
| 30 | The Commission has been charged with the task of looking at the implementation of unitary authorities at county and district level . |