Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of gravity measured at the surface depends on the altitude of the location , the gravitational pull of the underlying rock and the attraction exerted by any areas of highland near by ( this last effect being negligible except close to large mountain masses ) . |
| 2 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 3 | The fruits of Barclays ' policy are clearly visible in Cambridge , one of the leading centres for small firms , many of which started as a result of technologies developed at the city 's university . |
| 4 | The ban on commercial whaling is to remain in force for another year , as a result of decisions taken at the 44th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) held in Glasgow , Scotland , on June 29-July 3 . |
| 5 | A programme of ballets created at the workshop . |
| 6 | This report has analysed the programme of courses mounted at the Primary Schools Centre , and the teacher-days spent on them . |
| 7 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 8 | According to sources in Washington , officials in the Department of Commerce decided at the end of last year to recommend this strategy to the president as the most effective way of relinquishing responsibility for the US 's Landsat system . |
| 9 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 10 | As an example of the level of detail produced at the secondary modelling level , the outputs from the sub-systems concerned with calculating academic and non-academic resource needs included lists of : |
| 11 | These projects arose from the recommendations in the report of the Cockcroft Committee on the teaching of mathematics published at the beginning of 1982 . |
| 12 | This is particularly true of monetary compensatory amounts , which typify the kind of legislation adopted at the end of marathon meetings of agriculture ministers and subsequently amended again and again to respond to political adjustments or monetary fluctuations . |
| 13 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 14 | In summary , language checklists may provide a very practical and relatively quick form of assessment which can be used for a variety of purposes described at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 15 | Inevitably , the great majority of pupils left at the age of fifteen and without any formal qualifications . |
| 16 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
| 17 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 18 | The proportion of allowances paid at the highest rate ( in ‘ haute montagne ’ ) in 1981 was only 5% ; 78% in the ‘ montagne ’ zone and 16% in the ‘ piedmont ’ zone . |
| 19 | A place could become holy through some historical event , a memory of a work of God done at the site at a particular time . |
| 20 | Another solution is the so-called " high-level assembler language " , or " machine-oriented high-level language " ( Van der Poel and Maarssen 1974 ) , for example BCPL ( Richards 1969 ) and PL360 ( Wirth 1968 ) which provides such high-level facilities as block structure and loop control , but with some concessions to the type of manipulations required at the machine level . |
| 21 | An alternative to this type of full-scale reconstruction is the type of reconstruction used at the Jorvik Centre in York , where special effects , including sounds and smells , give visitors an impression of what it was like to walk through York in the Viking era . |
| 22 | Yet the successful pressing home of their attack owed much to the advice of the committee of lords established at the beginning of the parliament , and the council of nine nominated in parliament on 24 May . |
| 23 | Despite the degree of criticism levelled at the PC , it remains the most popular tool for developing software for microprocessor and DSP systems . |
| 24 | Kimura ( 1961a ) showed that temporal lobectomy results in a significant deficit in recall of digits presented at the ear opposite the side of the surgery , but only under conditions of dichotic presentation and not when input is restricted to one ear alone . |
| 25 | The injunction to make a small cross on the table from five breadcrumbs as a sign of devotion links him with a custom known to have been practised in monastic life , linking the daily bread of physical survival with the bread of life broken at the Passion . |
| 26 | The Council of Princes met at the Shrine of Asuryan . |
| 27 | There is a diverse range of talents based at the Selborne farm — from confectioners to builders — and the NFU vice-chairman was given a brief tour before having to rush off to his next appointment . |
| 28 | For an accountant in practice who is keen on a secondment to the regulatory sector , the range of experience offered at the DTI would make it time well spent . |
| 29 | Was the vexed question of extradition discussed at the Council ? |
| 30 | The protocol disbanding the treaty , which called for the promotion of a gradual shift towards all-European security structures on the basis of agreements achieved at the Paris CSCE ( Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe ) summit in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , was expected to come into effect by the end of the year , once it was ratified by all six parliaments . |