Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair enough , I plead guilty to telling & laughing at sick jokes too . |
| 2 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 3 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 4 | An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’ |
| 5 | For example , the bass knob , when pulled , provides an extra dollop of low EQ so that playing at lesser volumes will sound more natural ( having the same effect as the loudness control on a domestic hi-fi amp ) . |
| 6 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 7 | There was dancing and singing at various points — the chatter and whir of castanets , the hoarse yelps and anguished arias of flamenco , the pistol-like crepitations of zapateado , the sharp slow hand-claps of café patrons calling waiters . |
| 8 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 9 | The low value which we place on animal life results directly in countless millions of animals , of many species , wild and domestic , suffering and dying at human hands every year . |
| 10 | Erm then there would be the idea of seating into this little er ornamental circular paved area , and seating at different parts around the edges . |
| 11 | The programme first ran in 1986 and current sponsoring organisations include many multinationals , each with their own distinctive features and corporate identity In addition , managers have the opportunity to become part of an international network linked through computer conferencing and meeting at selected workshops . |
| 12 | N.B. Good spellers , on the other hand , often enjoy searching for exceptions and looking at incorrect examples , because they can see what 's wrong . |
| 13 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 14 | And looking at small things in detail can produce big truths . |
| 15 | After visiting several suppliers and looking at various packages , I found that Dixons offered the best value , availability and longevity , so we opted for a Packard Bell 486SX . |
| 16 | S so apart from digging and researching and looking at old buildings , what other jobs do archaeologists do ? |
| 17 | And that 's the strongest way of all of making timbers and looking at medieval pictures and the few medieval survivors , that 's the way it was done . |
| 18 | They became highly specialized arboreal forest-dwellers feeding on fruit , moving by brachiating from tree to tree , and living at high densities in food-rich forests where resources are generally constant and predictable . |
| 19 | There 's only one FA Cup Final , one Wimbledon , one Royal Ascot every season , even though there 's plenty of football , tennis and racing at other times . |
| 20 | Such are the difficulties that have been found when trying to scale up toy grammars that computational linguists are drifting away from the creation of demo-sized systems and aiming at larger systems . |
| 21 | By the time English had situated itself as a centre of learning and teaching at all universities in the early 1930s , its ethos and evaluative criteria were those associated with a masculine profession , rather than with a programme of national cultural intervention . |
| 22 | Learning and teaching at all levels |
| 23 | That was the first time I was to see pain and suffering at close quarters . ’ |
| 24 | The small leaves are bright green , up to 6ins ( 16cms ) long and 1½ins ( approx. 4cms ) wide , lance-shaped , sometimes oval , and tapering at both ends . |
| 25 | This idea of a hierarchy of control allows the analyst to focus on each element in turn , and derive ideas about monitoring and controlling at various levels . |
| 26 | Manpower was used to haul the wagons round the city , following an established route and stopping at certain points or stations , where audiences would be assembled to watch the performances . |
| 27 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 28 | The custom of ‘ beating the bounds ’ by taking children around the parish boundary and beating at significant points , in order that the children should remember them , is a reflection of this . |
| 29 | At hotels near airports and in major cities visitors are arriving and departing at all times with peak periods being the morning departures and arrivals building up during late afternoon and early evening . |
| 30 | The rest will do a nine-hour day — after which , I imagine , they will be seeing potatoes in their sleep and grabbing at phantom clods of earth for half the night . |