Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 2 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 3 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |
| 4 | Advantage of this can be taken by widely-held public companies to enable them temporarily to freeze the list of those who are entitled to receive an annual dividend or to vote at an annual general meeting . |
| 5 | From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante 's decision to demolish the original church — apart from the internal apse structure and the ( later ) campanile , — or to marvel at the soaring lines . |
| 6 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 7 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 8 | What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ? |
| 9 | Everyone knew that to point at the seals was taboo . |
| 10 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 11 | But it said that to get at the root of the problem the Government had to tackle the whole issue of deprivation . |
| 12 | And it was a belief that to cut at the roots with small scissors would make a difference , because it would have a cumulative effect and that 's why I think we can do it in our own society . |
| 13 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 14 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
| 15 | Our Lord left this earthly scene to occupy his throne and to sit at the Father 's table . |
| 16 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 17 | ‘ RADA taught me about drugs and I learned to cook and to drive at the RSC , ’ she laughs . |
| 18 | And to stand at the ford as long as humanly possible , denying the Northumbrians the crossing until they were forced to give way . |
| 19 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 20 | It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995 . |
| 21 | She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor . |
| 22 | The project aims to develop a general set of answers to these questions , relevant to any metropolitan region , and to look at a set of current labour market issues in Greater London and the Outer Metropolitan region ( including West Kent . ) |
| 23 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 24 | However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve . |
| 25 | Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it . |
| 26 | The best way is to make a chart of each proposed solution and to look at the gains , losses and likely outcome for each . |
| 27 | One aim of this chapter is to assess the impact of feminism on political sociology ‘ twenty years on ’ and to look at the difficulties confronting those who wish to do work on women . |
| 28 | There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) . |
| 29 | I urge the Minister to comment on that and to look at the way in which capital is treated for income support purposes to ensure that such disadvantages do not continue . |
| 30 | This study aims to discover patterns of migration of labour within and between the townships of Calverley parish and to look at the role of vestry policy upon this and also upon movement into and out of the parish . |