Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |
| 2 | We were interested to see how far proposals were concentrated on particular aspects of the curriculum ( as opposed to an across-the-curriculum approach ) , how much participation there had been in arriving at the proposal , whether information-handling skills were recognised , and so on . |
| 3 | Before the Digital Servo Interface is described it may be worth looking at the principles of operation of these model servos . |
| 4 | It may be worth looking at the pair made up of Phi¹ ; ( 3.6 ) which is orange , and Phi² ; ( 4.5 ) which is white . |
| 5 | ‘ But would it perhaps just be worth looking at the petrol gauge ? ’ |
| 6 | They 're as unique as it is possible to be without splitting at the seams . |
| 7 | Another route to a part-time job might be by looking at the cards in newsagents ' windows , or asking as your local Job Centre or office of Professional and Executive Recruitment , addresses of which will be in your local Yellow Pages . |
| 8 | The 25 workers at Julie 's company Ranzau were in mourning at the office in Milton Keynes yesterday . |
| 9 | then it 's worth looking at the idea . |
| 10 | In this context it is worth looking at a recent study carried out in California by Harbicht Research Inc for Southern California Edison , a local utility company who investigated how local residents felt about a proposed " wind-farm " project . |
| 11 | It is worth looking at the way the Soviet leader 's behaviour changed in the course of the crisis . |
| 12 | For examples of carefully worded questions in public opinion polls it is worth looking at the newspapers to see how very carefully the professional market research firms word their questions when they are asking ordinary people for their current political views . |
| 13 | For evidence of this , as well as of his continuing interest in the outcast and distressed , it is worth looking at the Postscript to Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems ( 1835 ) . |
| 14 | It is worth looking at the Delta-Epsilon pair , close to Gamma . |
| 15 | Before getting to grips with the corporatism as such , it is worth looking at the idea of the local state . |
| 16 | If , however , this investment of time and effort for training and research into the market is beyond the reach of your dealership , there are , after all , only so many things that can be tackled in a day , it is worth looking at the alternatives . |
| 17 | To give an idea of the syllabus for an LLB student it is worth looking at the typical curriculum in individual years . |
| 18 | So it is worth recalling at the outset of this discussion that it is in these senses that the female cross-dresser of the early seventeenth century could be described as an ‘ invert ’ or ‘ pervert ’ , and hardly at all in the sense of those words as coined and popularized by the nineteenth-century sexologists and , later , psychoanalysis . |
| 19 | It is like looking at the menu in a French restaurant . |
| 20 | Looking down one of the Avenues is like looking at the inversion of a sunset . |
| 21 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 22 | It is like eavesdropping at a match , though such ‘ alternative ’ humour is very rare . |
| 23 | Waiting for Jane 's Addiction to come on is like waiting at the altar — there are moments when you 're certain they will blow you out . |
| 24 | If you examine these charities , and the pop stars who lend their support to them , it 's like looking at a giant human Venn diagram , with the same sets supporting different charities . |
| 25 | It 's like hauling at a dog 's lead . |
| 26 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 27 | One way of obtaining that perspective is by looking at the experience of foreign systems . |
| 28 | Although you may be tempted towards a lender by the promise of an initial discount , a far better way of telling how competitive they are is by looking at the history of what borrowers have been charged over the last few years . |
| 29 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 30 | It was like looking at a miniature version of himself . |