Example sentences of "but [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I won an essay competition in 1957 on " Why I was proud to be a citizen of Leeds " , organised by the Variety Club of Great Britain and the local evening paper , the big event in my London visit was not Buckingham Palace , nor having Norman Wisdom put his arm round me , but gazing at a skiffle group which had played in the 21's coffee bar with Tommy Steele . |
| 2 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |
| 3 | But looking at the past track record of the present Government , one ca n't help wondering . |
| 4 | ‘ I still think the carrot of a final at Wembley is terrific but looking at the gates , especially in Italy , I do n't know if the fans want this competition . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps much of what Sickert taught does not have relevance to all of us today ; perhaps many of his doctrines are outworn , his opinions unsystematic , but looking at the smouldering vigour of the painting , and the sinewy strength of the drawing in the works now on view at the Royal Academy , it is difficult not to feel that here is the work of a real artist , of a man who knew what he was doing — and why . |
| 6 | Wales have yet to qualify for the first round of the NatWest Trophy , but looking at the results from this year 's competition , perhaps they were well out of it . |
| 7 | I did n't notice it myself but looking at the people at school you think how babyish . |
| 8 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 9 | Now I in terms of the fine letter of P P G twelve erm erm er that is not entirely consistent , but looking at the special circumstances of Greater York , erm erm and the long time you 've spent on this , trying to reassure the public that we will do this properly , we think it 's the best way to proceed . |
| 10 | But looking at the diagram in Fig. 8.4 we can identify two general methods of keeping the search space small : |
| 11 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 12 | Three and half hours , but looking at the time log , and it 'll say I was on there for an hour actually speaking on the phone . |
| 13 | That 's an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures , a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in , in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year . |
| 14 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 15 | I 've heard from people who have visited Brussels that meetings were being cancelled because the British Delegation were not even members of the trade union , but looking at the structure of the works councils in the U K this is no wonder . |
| 16 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ said Greg , looking towards an elderly female colleague in a drab woolly frock , hunched over piles of marking but twitching at the ears for anything of scandalous human interest . |
| 18 | But getting at the right information , and making sense of it , is increasingly difficult . |
| 19 | The Commandment anticipates The Form but is less comprehensive in its analysis , whereas in Ego Dormio although he does not borrow Victorine terminology for his analysis , he nevertheless outlines a growth in religious experience similar to that in The Form but starting at an earlier stage in religious life . |
| 20 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |
| 21 | ‘ How can you be sure it was only one ? ’ the thin man asked doubtfully but clutching at a straw of hope . |
| 22 | Not the way it is today , when on the rare occasion an employee accompanies a guest here , he is likely to be some newcomer who has little to say about anything other than Association Football , and who prefers to pass the evening not by the fire of the servants ' hall , but drinking at the Ploughman 's Arms — or indeed , as seems increasingly likely nowadays , at the Star Inn . |
| 23 | One observer called it a ‘ pizza box with a beer belly ’ , not higher , but sagging at the bottom and hugging the desktop a little closer . |
| 24 | Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be . |
| 25 | Therefore the poem leads us towards transcendental moments of revelation , scattered throughout , but climaxing at the Simplon Pass ( end of Book vi ) and the vision on Mount Snowdon in the last book of the poem ; in the same way Aeneas was granted a vision of the destiny of Rome in Book VI of the Aeneid , and Adam in Paradise Lost receives revelations on top of a high mountain . |
| 26 | He paused irresolutely , not scrunching , as the others were beginning to , across the two sets of rails between our train and the station but meandering at an angle forward in the direction of the engine . |