Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , they roasted Lavelle for eating at exclusive restaurants at the expense of company officials who were , at the time , under investigation by her department for dumping toxic waste in harbours and unprotected dumps . |
| 2 | FORMER jewel-firm boss Gerald Ratner faces a New Year driving ban for speeding at 110mph-plus in his Mercedes . |
| 3 | Instead , she suggests introducing devices such as tolls for driving in specific , badly congested areas or for driving at particular times , such as rush hours . |
| 4 | It may be considered advisable with small units which form a chain of enterprises to expand trading by means of partnership or sole trading so that initial losses made in new units may be offset against profit obtained through trading at established units . |
| 5 | Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay . |
| 6 | After looking at various different types , Lindsey found ‘ 108 — Nord 1002 Pingouin II G-ATBG languishing in the back of a hangar at Elstree , Herts . |
| 7 | After looking at various books and pictures of English rural life they decide what jobs they will have in this community — fishing , farming , milling , etc . |
| 8 | The pair were friends for 65 years after meeting at New College , Oxford , and regularly telephoned each other with their latest jokes . |
| 9 | And lively Bradford forward Fairbank completed the rout of the League leaders with a final touchdown after racing at top speed onto Watson 's delicate short pass . |
| 10 | Bill cuts through the line after grabbing at thin air and landing it in an arbitrary process . |
| 11 | If you wish to record a dialogue for use as above , it can be done as follows : record the whole dialogue for listening at normal speed , without any pauses between the various utterances ( if there are pauses you will be tempted to mimic ) |
| 12 | In the post-Bullock years , thinking about writing at secondary level in particular has been dominated by the model developed by Britton and his colleagues at the London Institute for the Schools Council . |
| 13 | But obviously we 've got to be very careful about looking at actual work carried out , bearing in mind that is |
| 14 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 15 | Now in fact , before patch clamp came along in in a in around nineteen eighty there were there was another technique which was available for looking at single channel currents . |
| 16 | The model serves well for interpersonal relationships but is less useful for looking at mass communications where opportunities for feedback are not always present and where the power and resources of the two parties may be vastly disproportionate . |
| 17 | 1 telescope ( either for looking at wonderful views from Chinese Bedroom or more likely for reading the label on object ten feet beyond the red cordon — seldom as rewarding as it should be , as it usually says ; Portrait of Unknown Lady by Anonymous Artist or Occasional Table in the style of Sheraton ) |
| 18 | Were there species adapted for living at particular depths ? |
| 19 | If this is so , it is worth looking at professional development a little more closely . |
| 20 | It is worth looking at short- and medium-term goals for staff development and asking the same questions . |
| 21 | Again , people in other religions may likewise have had ( though for myself as a westerner I find the most to be gained through looking at western religion ) . |
| 22 | Probably he was unused to such directness from lowly individuals such as herself — individuals incapable of producing at short notice trifling sums like three and a half thousand pounds ! |
| 23 | If couples learn and adopt means of spacing at adequate intervals , if breastfeeding is prolonged and if appropriate contraceptives are used during the period of lactation ( where abstinence is not practised ) , the result will not only be improved health and mortality conditions but also a concomitant spread of knowledge as to means of terminating childbearing . |
| 24 | the skill of communicating at different levels without necessarily articulat-ing them . |
| 25 | Catalysts must have a high surface to volume ratio to be effective and a physical form which presents minimum resistance to high velocity gas streams and be capable of operating at high temperatures and often under high humidity conditions . |
| 26 | This may be of use in looking at early events , such as occur during the establishment of tolerance ; thereby facilitating the task of looking at low numbers of cells . |
| 27 | This way of looking at professional education is having a considerable impact on many fields . |
| 28 | I talked about the conditions that Normandin had described and kept repeating that it was n't a question of doing a deal , but of looking at other ways to get the hostages out . |
| 29 | This way of looking at causal laws is a delicate compromise . |
| 30 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |