Example sentences of "of [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 2 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 3 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 4 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 5 | A YOUNG Coldstream Guardsman confined to a wheelchair by catastrophic injuries when an army vehicle driven by a comrade overturned in Cyprus , was awarded £1 million agreed damages against the Ministry of Defence at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 6 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 7 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 8 | In 1886 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal College of Science , London . |
| 9 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 10 | In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level . |
| 11 | Harriet Harvey Wood , head of literature at the British Council , is awarded an OBE , as is Dorothy Butler in New Zealand for services to children 's literature . |
| 12 | I shall cover our response to the needs of the voluntary sector , of Eastern Europe , of Africa and I shall say a particular few words about the needs of children , the subject which is of course at the very heart of your work . |
| 13 | Wizards may be selected from any of the four levels of wizard at the appropriate points cost as shown below . |
| 14 | The ideology is talked about less ( though Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley has his hour of glory at the Conservative Party conference ) , but on the evidence so far it is doubtful whether Major 's much-vaunted caring image will ever filter through to meaningful policy change . |
| 15 | It only stops when it ( and you ! ) are crushed out of existence at the central point of the hole ( or a little earlier when the stretching and crushing forces wreck it ) . |
| 16 | There 's no use in running out of money at the crucial moment . ’ |
| 17 | One difficulty those advising the Licensing Authority had to contend with was the ‘ relative lack of data about the efficacy and effects of triazolam at the licensed doses of 0.125 mg and 0.25 mg ’ and at the beginning of the hearing that problem troubled the panel also . |
| 18 | More explicitly he sees psychodynamic theories as the orthodoxy against which others have railed , either from a positivist and empirical critique ( leading to the development of behavioural social work ) ; or a radical analysis ( based upon a rejection of the individualization of problems and the location of disadvantage at the societal level and the consequent development of radical social work ) . |
| 19 | The young man 's car , a Jensen Interceptor was out of action at the relevant time . |
| 20 | A better understanding of the toxin 's mode of action at the molecular level could lead to other strategies to circumvent resistance , for instance by redesigning the target-selecting region of the toxins . |
| 21 | The level of natural unemployment can be defined as the number of persons who are unemployed even when the labour market is in an equilibrium state : that is , when the total demand for labour is equal to the supply of labour at the prevailing level of real wage rates . |
| 22 | There was a heavy police presence at Welford Road , Leicester , amid fears of disruption at the controversial tour 's opening game . |
| 23 | The girls arrived then , breathless and laughing , and making sounds of disgust at the pervading smell and slime of birds ' droppings . |
| 24 | She ran a business and worked in a health shop to work her way through four years of study at the Northern College of Homeopathy , Gateshead , and has practised for the last six months under supervision . |
| 25 | Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre . |
| 26 | Similarly , there is no massive infiltration of the liver , as happens in portal hypertension that may be associated with haematologic disorders or amyloidosis , nor evidence of obstruction at the hepatic outflow , as observed in venoocclusive disease . |
| 27 | Harmer 's reputation in the University Museum led to his appointment as keeper of zoology at the British Museum ( Natural History ) in 1907 and in 1919 to the position of director . |
| 28 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 29 | There was a thin line of light at the bottom edge . |
| 30 | Therefore , it proposes that as a result of computerisation at the Inland Revenue a local authority register will be established so that authorities are aware of the pensioners , those with disabilities and those on low incomes . |