Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So gripped did I become with my inability to proceed at one point , that I almost became benighted through ignoring what was literally a keyhole through the rock . |
| 2 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 3 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 4 | Swiss researchers , who lost access to millions of dollars from the European Communities ( EC ) when voters decided in December to delay the process of joining the EC , are waiting for the reaction to their government 's attempt to participate at some level in the EC 's fourth Framework Programme , which begins next year . |
| 5 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 6 | As the authors state , it is important for neonatal research to look at simple interventions such as this . |
| 7 | Kenneth Clarke , the education secretary , poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party set up by his department to look at physical education . |
| 8 | Last month 's issue featured my visit to East Lambrook Manor to look at true geraniums , or cranesbills . |
| 9 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 10 | But it is certainly not impossible and the attempt to arrive at agreed standards in all organizations can be helpful and educational to manager and employees alike . |
| 11 | The utilitarian theorists — such as L W Sumner and Joseph Fletcher — reject moral absolutes , but still rely on deductive reasoning to arrive at moral principles and are much given to abstract statements like ‘ a fetus is a human being which is not yet a person ’ . |
| 12 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 13 | That is , while it may prove difficult or impossible to devise the appropriate experiment to get at young children 's appreciation of logical necessity , they may reveal that they have a measure of understanding of logical necessity in what they say and do in everyday contexts . |
| 14 | The court held that it was not open to the defendant to raise at that stage the question of the validity of the notice to quit . |
| 15 | For its elegance , performance , comfort and refinement , the XJ6 4.0 is a hard car to beat at any price . |
| 16 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 17 | For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material . |
| 18 | ‘ The Government said that it wanted development work to continue at all pits , not investment , which implies new projects and new money . ’ |
| 19 | Do not allow the leash to slacken at this point , but try to keep it taut as this will help to ensure the puppy adopts the required position rather than jumping up . |
| 20 | He had done well that day — almost performed miracles — having located Mrs McLaren 's Scottish relations ; persuaded a most excellent and locally well-known lady to come at short notice and be in the house to stay with her ; and had seen to it that the house itself was tidied , and cleaned ready , and supplied with food . |
| 21 | A number of working groups have been set up by the Council to look at these matters , but the truth is that the whole curriculum approach is rendered horrendously difficult by the subject structure and by the inevitable fact that the various subject working party reports are coming on stream over a period of at least four to five years . |
| 22 | A major cause of the delays was the decision to widen the project from an investigation of the effect of large breaks in the pressurised water-cooling system around the reactor core to look at wider problems of severe damage to the fuel . |
| 23 | Outside facilitators worked with the committee to look at current staff development issues in the University and to take the first steps in producing a new strategy paper on Staff Development Policy for the University . |
| 24 | So er can I suggest that we actually ask the the Recreation Ground Committee to look at these problems over the er I do n't think there are any significant problems actually after the , after the Easter weekend fortunately , but just to have er in reply to the city football club , because they are concerned , and have been I have to say for many years , so it 's not unusual . |
| 25 | ‘ He also showed a remarkable capacity to look at any form of contract and identify both the things that needed taking out and what has been wrongly omitted . |
| 26 | Their determination to win at any cost , brought world criticism as the details of massacres such as Mai Lai emerged . |
| 27 | This is over and above the ability to schedule the transfer to run at given times . |
| 28 | There is a further aspect of financial management to consider at this stage : the impact of different legal structures on the way in which firms manage their financial affairs . |
| 29 | A user interface reportedly allows a developer to intervene at any stage in the translation . |
| 30 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |