Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter will follow up this theme , and remain focused at the local level . |
| 2 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 3 | ( iv ) As autumn progresses and temperatures fall an increasing proportion ( up to 80% ) of the L3 ingested do not mature but become inhibited at the early fourth larval stage ( EL4 ) . |
| 4 | We 've looked at the correct placing of a tank , at filtration and other life-support systems for tropical fish , and at the fish themselves . |
| 5 | We 've looked at the current number of users , where they live , the journey times that they have often provided by us on tra transport and the possibilities of where we can relocate them and clearly we have a number of centres in the Nottingham er conurbation which will be made available to those users from Beaver Vale . |
| 6 | Unlike its competitors , Eden is still avoiding building in support for wireless data networks in its machines : it 's an attractive market on paper but ‘ we 've looked at the available technology and put together designs , but have n't taken it very far because the pricing just has n't worked ’ says Crisp . |
| 7 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 8 | We 've looked at the different types of stress , what is happening to you when you 're stressed . |
| 9 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 10 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 11 | Well I think there is the the only report that I 've got is the fact that the financial summary er you 've seen at the same time as I have . |
| 12 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 13 | ‘ Besides , as Mona will tell you , I 've reformed at the very idea of being put in clink for treason or whatever they call it . |
| 14 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 15 | Once they 've arrived at the secret location near Doncaster , they 're placed into the care of the local badger protection group . |
| 16 | got ta got ta royal visit coming up he said you 've worked at the Scottish Office do you know anything about them and I said yes tell the Scottish Office they 'll do all the a Royal navy one I 've got to do it I said fine when is it ? |
| 17 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 18 | Tom Graveney inspects the new artificial pitch which 3D Cricket have installed at the historic Hambledon CC |
| 19 | The economic theory underlying this optimistic view of technical change is termed ‘ compensation theory ’ , and we will discuss this after we have looked at the competing rhetorical question . |
| 20 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 21 | Recent seminars have looked at the changing situation in southern Africa and the Gulf War and its effects . |
| 22 | A number of studies have looked at the geographical distribution of doctors both in regions and in smaller districts . |
| 23 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 24 | So far in this section we have looked at the present provision of training and at ways of improving the system . |
| 25 | A number of researchers have looked at the predictive validity of various types of assessments , including interviews , aptitude tests , personality tests and other techniques . |
| 26 | Already we have looked at the healthy state of the majority of children when they enter this world and how their health tends to deteriorate slowly with time . |
| 27 | So far we have looked at the consensual influence of television : at influences that varied from time to time but affected all or most citizens at any one time . |
| 28 | Today , we reach the end of the series ; I hope that you have found that the series has improved your prayer life , as we have looked at the whole subject from several different angles . |
| 29 | We have looked at the different types of land and seen roughly what could be done with them . |
| 30 | I wonder whether Opposition Members have looked at the excellent background paper produced by the Library research division , entitled ’ The Regulation of Privatized Utility Companies ’ , which was published on 1 July and is available in the Library . |