Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would ask me into their classes to watch them teach ; they gave me time for interviews ; they allowed me into staff meetings and departmental meetings and I at various points in my research I erm attempted to feed back to them some of the material that I was coming up with , and we would have meetings to discuss this and I would erm use those meetings then to refine my ideas . |
| 2 | Someone at general command had a great idea , a cheap-rate sequel to GI Blues in which a young Scottish footballer plays the part of a handsome conscript . |
| 3 | They have to report to someone at parliamentary level when they have completed their analyses . |
| 4 | ‘ If there is someone at large who confronts women , then of course we are concerned . |
| 5 | Someone at Head Office needs to do a quick bit of thinking here : to couple an outstanding Appalachian Spring with this twaddle is not only an insult to Dennis Russell Davies and his superb musicians , but also to the prospective purchaser of this disc . |
| 6 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 7 | And if the committee of the CICCU be taxed with bringing in someone who did not fit the undergraduates of a university , it might be replied , first that they were desperate to find someone at short notice , and secondly , was it desirable that a missioner should fit the undergraduates ? |
| 8 | It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer . |
| 9 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 10 | The galley was shaped like a three-sided square , and by parking himself at right angles to the double sink , his back to the companionway ladder , Nathan had her trapped . |
| 11 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 12 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 13 | Now to some , George Best telling Cantona to behave himself at Old Trafford is a bit like Stan Flashman lecturing on etiquette . |
| 14 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 15 | External factors such as slowness by the contractor may be causing programme delay and the manager must have the ability to involve himself at senior level within the organisations causing delay , in order to try to influence change in the progress of the work . |
| 16 | Nobody at fine leg appealed for lbw or for a catch , but now everybody does , and I do n't know why this is . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And once you 're a tower , nobody but nobody at Mars-U wants to know you . |
| 18 | Many analysts think the project will never make much money without its second phase ; which is why nobody at Euro Disney is keen to delay starting it . |
| 19 | But obviously there 's somebody at head office you will be going through that in much more detail . |
| 20 | Flooding : The effect by which at long exposures large background areas are seen as white ( spreading affects only the edge of objects ) . |
| 21 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |
| 22 | These high frequency radio programmes can be bounced off the ionosphere which at certain high frequencies acts like an electrically charged mirror . |
| 23 | Alexander was probably right to think , as he evidently did , that he would be better off if Persia rather than Athens ruled the Aegean : within a decade of the establishment of the Delian League , Athens began the expansion in the north , and the attempt to settle Amphipolis , on the River Strymon , which at certain times in the next century and a half dominated her foreign policy to the exclusion of all else ( Thuc. iv.102 ; Σ Aischin. ii.31 ) . |
| 24 | Each lamella consists of a pair of membranes which at certain points are interspaced by a third membrane , the GRANAL REGION of the chloroplast . |
| 25 | Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding ; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths ( not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day , Napoleon Bonaparte ) . |
| 26 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 27 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 28 | Yet I could see , sitting next to him , that it brought him contentment which at other levels he lacked . |
| 29 | The Christian Democrats ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which at federal level formed the governing coalition , each lost around 4 per cent of the vote as compared with March 1985 . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems possible to place France in the company of those countries — Germany and the US included — which at mid century experienced a ‘ railway Kondratieff ’ with emphatic growth-industry capabilities ’ ( Trebilcock , 1981 ) . |