Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposite suggestion , that marine planation at the present level is active , has been made from observations of wide platforms truncating hard rocks and apparently related to present sea level . |
| 2 | The damage cost curve is shown starting at some low value at a small or zero concentration — and increasing rapidly at high concentrations . |
| 3 | Our study of exotic tribal religions , however , enables us to come to terms with this tantalizing problem at a safe distance ; indirectly it makes it easier to realize that it is not the presence of such beliefs that is odd or unusual but their absence . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
| 5 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 6 | As a result , Al Bishri Petroleum Company [ ABPC ] , the Syrian joint operating company set up to oversee exploration and production in Wadi Aabeid , is planning to drill a further two development wells and to construct some further facilities at the well site . |
| 7 | Transport is another high cost at an annual average of £651.04p . |
| 8 | Mr Jack Hibbert , the head of the Government Statistical Service , appeared in front of some 300 statisticians at a public meeting to defend the reputation and integrity of his service and the official information it purveys . |
| 9 | Still to come on Central News : Some amazing feats at the medical centre . |
| 10 | One morning of diagonal sleet and frozen puddles we were unloading some Jewish families at a rude hamlet on the River Bug . |
| 11 | The orthodox visualized themselves cutting through the wire or bringing off some unprecedented bluff at the main gate . |
| 12 | In a report to councillors , he says that the trustees should have served notice on the county council last December if they wanted to exercise the option to continue for another 21 years at the nominal £1 a year rent for the village hall . |
| 13 | ‘ Ninety days here , and another ninety days at the nuclear power station prior to transportation . ’ |
| 14 | The woman called Roe was putting up some black material at the front window . |
| 15 | In September 1989 some 3,500 miners at the northern El Salvador copper mine , owned by the state company Codelco , went on strike for two weeks . |
| 16 | Interestingly Tom Jones told me , ‘ Even if he runs well I might miss Cheltenham with him and keep him fresh for another good race at the Grand National meeting at Aintree . ’ |
| 17 | They existed in significant numbers in the town at a time when there was restiveness amongst some antislavery people at the growing identification of antislavery with political liberalism and the demands of religious dissent . |
| 18 | Finally , it is intended to carry out some observational work at a selected site in the system , possibly courts , and interview key participants . |
| 19 | This undignified arrival at the bathing spot started off the most dreadful family squabble and several minutes were to elapse before order was restored . |
| 20 | " The Orthodox clergy and Church in the western area " , he said , " will not assume the status appropriate to their rank so long as this same clergy at the very centre of the state remain in their present condition and on their present level " . |
| 21 | They pipped last year 's IBOA League winners , the ‘ Random Strikers ’ from AIB Bank 10/11 O'Connell St. , Dublin , who played exceptionally well but failed to capitalise on some sensational strikes at the closing stages . |
| 22 | To keep the 1:6 cement/ballast concrete level and consistent thickness , we put a few levelled pegs at the extreme sides of the pit for guidance . |
| 23 | He remained loyal to Harley until the bitter end , though his own influence in the administration was dwindling , lost all offices except a few local honours at the Hanoverian succession , and more or less retired from active politics to follow his mild interest in antiquarian matters and his somewhat keener passion for the refinement and embellishment of his country seat at Margam . |
| 24 | There was another muffled exchange at the other end . |
| 25 | Second , though some senior men at the Foreign Office are Arabist , there are other officials who balance their influence . |
| 26 | But inside she was cringing at the memory of that appalling evening at the Grand Hotel . |
| 27 | Such jolly fun at a certain age . |
| 28 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
| 29 | Such impressive figure-work at the very beginning of the Geometric period is surprising . |
| 30 | We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer . |