Example sentences of "by [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ? |
| 2 | Alternatively , neuropeptide Y may have produced its choleretic effect by binding at a hypothelamic level , where neuropeptide Y receptors are also plentiful . |
| 3 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 4 | Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level . |
| 5 | The point is best made by looking at a simple inanimate , but man-made , system , which in this respect resembles a living and not a physical one . |
| 6 | This section will look at how this teacher involvement can be achieved , both in general terms and by looking at a specific example in detail . |
| 7 | The same can be done in miniature by looking at a sheltered housing group or an institutional home . |
| 8 | These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map . |
| 9 | Let's begin by looking at a well-known poem — William Blake 's ‘ London ’ . |
| 10 | It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) . |
| 11 | A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes . |
| 12 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration . |
| 15 | In this assessment of an explanation the writer has disagreed with the main proposition and supported it by looking at the Liberal and Labour parties separately , and secondly at the other factors making for Liberal decline . |
| 16 | Right , so , you know , there 's no econo-matrixes by no means the science and you can essentially get the computer to er tell the story that you want simply by choosing er critical values but nevertheless we 've re probably be reasonably confident in our estimate , particularly if those estimates , we 'll just go back to them , er the er display the regression results again , display them again but those coefficients are elasticities , right , they 're cored with our a priori reasoning right , we put ah , unit elasticity , you may want to test the hypothesis that the elasticity on erm the income variable , that income elasticity is significant given one , just generate computer a T ratio in the hypothesis value being one instead of zero , as in a normal T test , right , and that coefficient point nine five is sufficiently close to one , by looking at the standard error to er further that is an estimate of one you 've got very inelastic er demand erm for the , the textiles , that coefficient , is that the time , I ca n't believe it if that 's all , oh no that 's eight , do n't worry |
| 17 | explain this by looking at the political reasons why many women do not receive the pensions that would raise them economically ; that is , they are excluded from key decision-making structures . |
| 18 | Brenda Denvir takes up one of the most pressing contemporary issues , that of the multiple roles of assessment in schools , by looking at the intimately-related questions of ‘ what are we assessing ? ’ and , ‘ what are we assessing for ? ’ |
| 19 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 20 | This week STUART BRUCE concludes his series on value added tax and the single market by looking at the new reporting requirements for UK businesses . |
| 21 | They think that all knowledge is to be found by perusing him , and not by looking at the real world . |
| 22 | The effect that this financial autonomy had on education there is best explained by looking at The Effective Resource Allocation in Schools Project ( ERASP ) . |
| 23 | Now we continue by looking at the inside workings of the process at the national level , beginning with a discussion of executives and assemblies . |
| 24 | We begin by looking at the negative emotions . |
| 25 | You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ? |
| 26 | The associated jargon and rates may be introduced by looking at the following figures for 1984 extracted from Tables D1.1 and D2.1 of the 1984 Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland . |
| 27 | Sargent 's suggested solution to this problem can be seen by looking at the simple n = 3 case , which led to the restrictions of equation ( 3.50 ) . |
| 28 | These histories , it was believed , could be constructed by looking at the available information on primitive peoples , past and present , whether from archaeological remains , from classical accounts of early institutions , such as those given by Tacitus concerning the German tribes of Roman times , or early Greece and Rome themselves , or , most importantly , from the reports of travellers , explorers , colonists and missionaries , describing contemporary primitives . |
| 29 | This section begins by looking at the changing fate of old people during the past century as they have retired . |
| 30 | No longer can the worth of an investment proposal be evaluated by looking at the immediate terms of the deal : the longer lasting impact of the structure of alliances must also be taken into account . |