Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , they roasted Lavelle for eating at exclusive restaurants at the expense of company officials who were , at the time , under investigation by her department for dumping toxic waste in harbours and unprotected dumps . |
| 2 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 3 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 4 | Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay . |
| 5 | After looking at first reactions I shall sketch the main lines of theological comment and response , and then liturgical , practical and ecumenical developments ; then some ‘ growing points ’ and problems in areas both of praxis and of theological reflection . |
| 6 | After looking at various books and pictures of English rural life they decide what jobs they will have in this community — fishing , farming , milling , etc . |
| 7 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 8 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 9 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 10 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 11 | The model serves well for interpersonal relationships but is less useful for looking at mass communications where opportunities for feedback are not always present and where the power and resources of the two parties may be vastly disproportionate . |
| 12 | 1 telescope ( either for looking at wonderful views from Chinese Bedroom or more likely for reading the label on object ten feet beyond the red cordon — seldom as rewarding as it should be , as it usually says ; Portrait of Unknown Lady by Anonymous Artist or Occasional Table in the style of Sheraton ) |
| 13 | Were there species adapted for living at particular depths ? |
| 14 | By ensuring adequate representation of sentencers from all levels of court , in addition to other professionals with experience of the penal system , he suggests that such a body would be capable of developing realistic guidance for sentencing at all levels that should at the same time be acceptable to sentencers themselves . |
| 15 | If couples learn and adopt means of spacing at adequate intervals , if breastfeeding is prolonged and if appropriate contraceptives are used during the period of lactation ( where abstinence is not practised ) , the result will not only be improved health and mortality conditions but also a concomitant spread of knowledge as to means of terminating childbearing . |
| 16 | Analysis of the alternative splicing in the fibronectin primary transcript , reveals that multiple forms arise because of splicing at three sites ; EIIIA , EIIIB and the variable ( V ) region ( IIICS ) ( 22–26 ) . |
| 17 | the skill of communicating at different levels without necessarily articulat-ing them . |
| 18 | Catalysts must have a high surface to volume ratio to be effective and a physical form which presents minimum resistance to high velocity gas streams and be capable of operating at high temperatures and often under high humidity conditions . |
| 19 | The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve . |
| 20 | This may be of use in looking at early events , such as occur during the establishment of tolerance ; thereby facilitating the task of looking at low numbers of cells . |
| 21 | to Arthur I want a change from that flat I 'm sick of looking at four walls |
| 22 | ‘ We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French , Mr Lewis . ’ |
| 23 | I talked about the conditions that Normandin had described and kept repeating that it was n't a question of doing a deal , but of looking at other ways to get the hostages out . |
| 24 | This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise . |
| 25 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 26 | We also explored alternative ways of looking at certain events . |
| 27 | Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint ? |
| 28 | Why not just call you back and tell you what they told me ? — what you obviously knew all along , that there 's no hope at all of looking at secret files . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Broadhurst 's Wager is the correct way round of looking at these things , an apt reversal of the sophistries of that anorexic apostate , scribbling on his Post-it notelets . |
| 30 | This method of looking at cultural objects , developed chiefly by German and American scholars at the turn of the century , assumes in its extreme form that complex and exotic techniques can only be invented once in the history of mankind . |