Example sentences of "by [verb] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seldom asked for advice and never took it , but Mona knew how to disguise mere advice by scoffing at any other conclusion but her own . |
| 2 | He starts by looking at longer-term human evolution over the past five or more million years , showing rightly that this is not a simple progressive ladder but a series of adaptive radiations . |
| 3 | The process by which this vacuum was filled in 1945–7 can best be surveyed by looking at four geographical areas : eastern Europe , Germany , the Near East and western Europe . |
| 4 | We estimated the count er by looking at each individual section at low power and collecting the three most vascular areas . |
| 5 | The rump region , as is clear by looking at other hoofed animals , is the favoured place for species ‘ flags ’ of identity and there is a good reason for this . |
| 6 | The research will also investigate why journalism takes the form it does , by looking at two other issues . |
| 7 | These connections can only really be understood by looking at concrete historical instances . |
| 8 | Some idea of the potential gains from a single currency can be had by looking at previous historical periods when people really believed that exchange rates were fixed . |
| 9 | By looking at these developing years and investigating the transformations which take place you are entering new territories which begin to examine in earnest the role of the media and the effects stereotyping which influences us all . |
| 10 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |
| 11 | The Commissioner has adopted a higher profile recently by exhibiting at various professional gatherings . |