Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law . |
| 2 | It can not be said , merely by looking at the allegations in the statement of claim , which is all that is permissible under the terms of the preliminary point of law , that the council could not have considered the action expedient for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of Derbyshire . |
| 3 | The Beagle was on the point of leaving when he found out that the natives could tell which island a tortoise came from merely by looking at the shape of its shell . |
| 4 | So by looking at the mates of the heavier hens , Petrie could discover what confers desirable quality in a cock . |
| 5 | If one was asked to produce a summary of the kind of case into which the tribunal was intended to inquire one would do so by looking at the situations which the tribunal has to determine which are mentioned in the statute . |
| 6 | Right , so by looking at the graph , I am just trying to impress upon you that structural change can not always be spotted simply by looking at the data right , anyway , let's now move on to estimate our first model . |
| 7 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 8 | Only by looking at the fish from all angles can you be sure all is well : the belly is a favourite site for bacterial ulcers , for instance . |
| 9 | Anderson argues strongly that such patterns can be explained only by looking at the material advantages and disadvantages of people living together . |
| 10 | How oppressive the satraps were in reality is a question which can be answered only by looking at the second area in which Persia impinged , tribute and military service . |
| 11 | The educational aspects of social change can be assessed only by looking at the local education authorities . |
| 12 | He can , apparently , date a picture precisely just by looking at the monkeys in it . |
| 13 | You could tell nobody was welcome just by looking at the building . |
| 14 | just by looking at the product . |
| 15 | But any engineer can recognize an object that has been designed , even poorly designed , for a purpose , and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by looking at the structure of the object . |
| 16 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 17 | He says that it 's rubbish — the recession is n't over , and anyone can see this just by looking at the number of failed businesses . |
| 18 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 19 | These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map . |
| 20 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 21 | The second thing I found quickly by looking at a newspaper in a coffee-shop : the day 's date . |
| 22 | She saved herself from falling further by clutching at a branch with both hands and then drawing her feet up to safety on a big branch . |
| 23 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 24 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 25 | However , frequently , the kind of questions we want to ask of the data are deeper than would be answered simply by looking at a cross-tabulation . |
| 26 | In particular , it would be a mistake to suppose that the causes and remedies of the prison numbers crisis are to be found simply by looking at the final stages of the process , namely the custodial decisions of the courts . |
| 27 | Right , so by looking at the graph , I am just trying to impress upon you that structural change can not always be spotted simply by looking at the data right , anyway , let's now move on to estimate our first model . |
| 28 | Now , so we can actually distinguish between the two policies , which are very similar in lots of ways , we 're going to start again by looking at a video . |