Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACCOUNTANTS have never allowed the glory of a dancing beck or the rugged splendour of a mountainside to alter their perception of red ink at the bottom of a balance sheet . |
| 2 | This power over the working class was achieved at the economic level , through the extraction of surplus value at the point of production , and politically . |
| 3 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 4 | The continuous administration of such compounds at the normally recommended doses to elderly patients , therefore , may result in unnecessarily elevated and potentially harmful plasma levels ’ . |
| 5 | And I can not believe that the two did not exchange at length here , passing the very threshold of such a dominant historic occasion , an event which still burnt into the consciousness of all Scots at the time . |
| 6 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |
| 7 | I do not know whether the Minister has seen today 's announcement about the loss of 370 jobs at the Volvo plant in Copeland in west Cumbria . |
| 8 | The move followed the loss of 589 jobs at the plant on Friday as a third of the workforce across the financially-stricken company was made redundant by administrative receivers . |
| 9 | I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the announcement by British Coal of the loss of 13,000 jobs at the Prince of Wales , Sharlston , Kellingley and Whitemoor collieries and the closure of the topping cycle plant at Grimethorpe . ’ |
| 10 | George Waldron , the MP for Buckingham , says he 's shocked by the loss of 250 jobs at the Westcote Rocket Research Plant . |
| 11 | All in all , with new investment in an oversupplied market and loss of economical competitiveness at the raw material end , it looked like a blood bath for us . |
| 12 | A move to restrict the use of juries in libel actions was defeated in 1981 , largely as a result of public satisfaction at the performance of the jury which sat for six months to hear the claim for libel brought by the head of the " Moonies " in England against the " Daily Mail " . |
| 13 | ‘ The emergency committee has unanimously decided to press British Gas to commit itself to the relocation of this installation at the earliest possible date . ’ |
| 14 | The trial ended in November 1990 in Siegen ( Germany ) of a former SS officer Ernst August König , 71 , who was accused of killing eight gypsies and assisting in the murder of 1,067 others at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . |
| 15 | One of the stairs cracked sharply beneath her foot ; she heard the front door of one of the ground-floor flats open behind her , and as she turned the corner of the staircase she caught a glimpse of a single eye and a draggle of grey hair at the crack . |
| 16 | I was n't really sure what I was doing going to listen to a programme of classical music at the uncustomary time of 10 a.m . |
| 17 | Biochemistry is the study of living systems at the molecular level . |
| 18 | They have been ‘ closing the gap ’ on productivity and quality with their Japanese rivals , says Mr David Cole , director of the Centre for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan . |
| 19 | Molecular Biology is the study of biological systems at the molecular level . |
| 20 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 21 | It is a product of a dark , brutal side of Cambodian society that lives in fear of racial extinction at the hands of the neighbouring Vietnamese and Thais . |
| 22 | A question mark already hangs over the future of 3,000 staff at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea , whose work could go to firms in England . |
| 23 | The data presented were drawn from detailed clinical interview of new patients at the point of initial assessment . |
| 24 | In addition , can a set of precepts developed in the fifth century BC still retain sufficient vitality and relevance to regulate the practice of medical wonders at the end of the twentieth century AD ? |
| 25 | He had shaved , but it was a rough job : a piece of sticking plaster at the side of his face showed where he had cut himself . |
| 26 | There was a time when he owned only this great mausoleum , and that piece of derelict land at the bottom of Shorrock Hill . |
| 27 | Despite the scepticism of many historians at the time , Beresford eventually drew together all his findings in The Lost Villages of England , published in 1954 . |
| 28 | Royal College of Nursing members at the hospital had expressed worry over possible job losses and morale was said to be at a low ebb . |
| 29 | From a monthly turnover of 400 roubles at the end of December 1922 , one of them was to rise to a turnover of 2,000 by March 1923 . |
| 30 | Soccer Comment : Dark and deadly side of intense life at the top |