Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again . |
| 2 | In general , it is probably fair to say that the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies provide a better general model for the in-depth study of communities located at various points in the class continuum . |
| 3 | Thom worked throughout World War II at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough , where he commissioned and ran the high-speed tunnel , enabling the study of problems encountered at high subsonic aircraft speeds causing locally supersonic flow . |
| 4 | Assessment of samples stored at elevated temperatures may be made very approximately on the assumption of a two-fold acceleration for each 10°C rise in temperature . |
| 5 | Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products . |
| 6 | From July 1972 a Committee of Officers met at regular intervals . |
| 7 | The introduction of Teds , a bear-shaped burger-type product , under the specially created ‘ My Favourite ’ trademark is only one of a new range of products targeted at new customers . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the mid-1989 turmoil in China the UK government and the Hong Kong authorities proposed a package of measures aimed at restoring confidence in the colony ahead of 1997 . |
| 9 | The positivity rate for samples collected at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was 31% in comparison with 22% at percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography . |
| 10 | The book is a collection of documents aimed at stimulating discussion and action and at promoting a more general awareness of the cultural environment in which the mass media play a major part . |
| 11 | The Reaganites argued that the ‘ stagflation ’ of the 1970s demonstrated that there was no evidence of a trade-off between unemployment and inflation , and heaped scorn on policies aimed at managing demand or artificially controlling wages and prices . |
| 12 | Set to Tcherepnin 's Bagatelles , it was an adult equivalent of items seen at dancing-school shows . |
| 13 | Nine multi-divisional companies are studied in depth with interviews conducted at corporate , division and operating unit level . |
| 14 | After all , the argument that a list of numbers drawn at random by a programmed computer had no human author was rejected , as we have seen , in the Express Newspaper case . |
| 15 | The total number of labelled and unlabelled cells was counted under an optical grid over the full thickness of the mucosa at a number of sites chosen at random on each specimen ( approximately 1000 cells per site ) . |
| 16 | The measurement is derived from the very small difference in the time of arrival of signals received at different telescopes from a distant radio source ( usually a quasar ) . |
| 17 | Quantities ordered should be controlled by reference to pre.set maximum and minimum stock levels determined from past consumption information with orders placed at regular intervals . |
| 18 | Again , if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times , we would know the quantum state of the universe . |
| 19 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 20 | With weed-choked crops , badly pruned mulberries , olives killed off by frost , mean strips of wheat on terraces maintained at vast expense of labour , only the extension of the domestic wool industry could save this region from decline and depopulation . |
| 21 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 22 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |