Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry .
2 Bulls can match Galloways for weight at 200 days but thereafter they rapidly fall behind , reaching perhaps 325kg at 500 days compared with the Galloway 's 415kg and averaging 270kg at 400 days old .
3 The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals .
4 Not only can it tolerate heating at 100°C , but it makes DNA at high temperatures compared with the 37°C physiological temperature optimum of most enzymes .
5 The figure shows that the cost disadvantage of operating at half MES depends upon the gradient of the average cost curve .
6 Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game .
7 There are a series of peaks that show up in the detector like a range of mountains as there are lots of gamma rays at different energies coming from the many naturally radioactive materials that are all around and within us .
8 That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths .
9 Or alternatively the new situation is completely ignored and the time-space mesh contracted to such a degree that landform is almost taken as read and interest is , instead , directed at hydrological matters relating to the transmission of water and sediment across land-surfaces which look increasingly like the isotropic ones of human geographers .
10 The tendency within more recent authority is to pitch the second part of the hurdle at varying levels depending upon the nature of the decision-maker in question .
11 But precision is lacking ; the debate over the foetus at six months contrasts with the unanimity over the zygote and new-born baby .
12 Looking at 320 cases prosecuted by the SEC between 1980 and 1989 , it found that insider dealing did lead to share prices quickly becoming ‘ more accurate ’ .
13 The significance of these protocols is that synchronized firing patterns at similar frequencies occur in the hippocampus during learning . )
14 Attendance at such exhibitions has in the past allowed companies both to protect existing jobs and expand their workforces .
15 The benefits of contracting out at younger ages stem from the fact that the flat-rate rebate is based on an average of the costs of providing benefits for all age groups .
16 But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions .
17 Thousands of objects have been put into storage at three locations dotted around the borough because the council has nowhere to display them .
18 This module is available at three levels according to the degree of independence required from the student and the complexity of the tasks undertaken .
19 The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground .
20 The report , which covers activities at all sites operated by the Company , underpins a new policy statement by BNFL which focuses attention on current environmental performance and potential improvement .
21 Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference .
22 On the other hand , in real space-time , in which events are labeled by ordinary , real values of the time coordinate , it is easy to tell the difference — the time direction at all points lies within the light cone , and space directions lie outside .
23 Indeed officials at all levels work on the assumption that the dominant public image of their agencies , thanks to a critical press , is of costly , overblown , publicly-funded organizations .
24 Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy .
25 The 151-member Tsogdu includes 106 directly elected representatives , each elected for a three-year term by individual constituencies at various dates depending on the expiry of their term .
26 We will pay compensation for loss or damage , at various levels depending on the registration fee you paid .
27 Addition of [ I ] bFGF to sucralfate at various pHs resulted in the coprecipitation of bFGF by sucralfate in a pH dependent manner from about 10% at pH 7.0 to 90% at pH 1.5 .
28 These two groups of animals are quite unrelated , but both still have living representatives in the oceans , and so it is possible to look at living animals to help with the interpretation of fossil examples .
29 In this chapter we have looked at twelve issues relating to the church 's task in communicating its message effectively .
30 At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order .
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