Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] at " in BNC.

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1 Predictably , it is women who can place Izzat most easily at risk .
2 Moods may change easily from laughter to sadness ; they cry easily even at the thought of pain .
3 We disagree quite strongly at national level and international level , but locally we do n't .
4 Hairy tweed coat and skirt , and a woolly hat over thick white hair , cut straight round at ear length , with a fringe .
5 Peer more closely at the faces : on one side , heading south , all are black ; on the other , heading north , nearly all are white .
6 Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away .
7 Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people
8 In our current work , however , we run somewhat slower at about 1 frame/2 secs .
9 Look down there at the Western Surplus Store , ’ McIntosh said .
10 It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work .
11 The result of this decision necessitates that tribunals look not just at the nature of the offence but also at the severity or leniency of the punishment .
12 He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives .
13 But if the flag is at all close to the top of the bank , look once again at getting the ball down on the ground as quickly as possible and running it up the bank .
14 Look more closely at the numbers .
15 But look more closely at the statistics , look at what is really happening on the streets and in the shops , look at how people 's lives are changing , and it becomes clear that things are not nearly as bad as they are painted .
16 This can be seen if we look more closely at the issues of policing and economic and social problems .
17 However , when we look more closely at this period familiar declarations and allegations appear .
18 Now we look more closely at the techniques which are being used to put Western New Age man in touch with nature and its ‘ force ’ .
19 Here we look more closely at some of the building blocks in the creation of the sex beast or , more accurately , the way that suitable building material is being shaped for possible use if an opportunity occurs .
20 Although the use of everyday common-sense beliefs is usually not only unsystematic and inadequate but also often contradictory , if we look more closely at common sense it is likely such explanations of the world are based on what we shall call here ‘ individualistic ’ and/or ‘ naturalistic ’ assumptions .
21 We shall be able to understand these more clearly if we look more closely at what teachers will be planning for their students
22 There has , therefore , been a significant move away from psychological explanations of ‘ failure ’ which see socialization as the root of the problem , and towards explanations which look more closely at the discriminatory practices of schools .
23 When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process .
24 We now look more closely at the absentees in relation to two factors ; gender and school stage .
25 The final two chapters look more closely at the interaction between top-down and bottom-up information given the experimental results .
26 So in this section , we look more closely at how whole exam questions ( illustrated here from recent University of London examination papers ) are structured , before considering some more general exam-room strategies .
27 In the next three chapters we look more closely at the texture of essay-writing .
28 In the following sections , we look more generally at patterns of change in two Hiberno-English vowels .
29 I glance once again at the Dutch movie .
30 There are however none to my knowledge that combine the two more successfully than the CD3 , nor which sound more convincingly at home with a wide range of music .
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