Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | HLCAs should be fixed at a slightly lower level than at present , e.g. 80% below present values in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ LFA . |
| 2 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 3 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 4 | Such arrangements are not easy to achieve , not all field officers managed to deploy their technical expertise while at the company , and some firms were cautious about commercial confidentiality . |
| 5 | This proportionality holds strictly only at low levels of total occupancy because at high levels of blockage less of the RNA polymerase probe is able to reach the more downstream sites . |
| 6 | John Fowles , a student of French literature while at university , talks in The French Lieutenant 's Woman of ‘ the lessons of existentialist philosophy ’ ( Fowles 1969 and 1977 : 63 ) and of working in ‘ the age of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes … the theoreticians of the nouveau roman ’ ( p. 188 ) . |
| 7 | Painted in the markings ‘ L–C ’ of 2 Squadron when at Wahn , Germany , in 1948 , retention of the thin yellow fuselage roundel and thin white fin flash would seem incorrect . |
| 8 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 9 | Irrespective of the actual method of replication , the series is found spread across southern England from the Isle of Wight to Suffolk , indicating the extent of social interconnectedness whether at the level of the manufacturer , the ‘ purchaser ’ or the wearer ; people travelled considerable distances during the period ( Arnold 1980 ; Hines 1984 ) . |
| 10 | There is a need for us to develop the communication skills of our horticultural staff to a broader degree than at present . |
| 11 | Despite this , it seems that what is now on offer is not the true independence of monetary policy which would come from free competition between different currencies and policies ( whether the currencies remained in the public sector as at present or whether they were in private hands ) , but instead the imposition of one economic and monetary policy by a powerful and unaccountable institution . |
| 12 | The paper proposes that arm 's length inspection units should report to chief executives instead of directors of social work as at present . |
| 13 | Their visits break many of the established patterns of human/dolphin encounter : they accept gifts of dead fish ( one theory is that the dolphins receive the fish as a signal from humans that they have come to play and interact ) , and they maintain their own social grouping while at the same time allowing close human contact . |
| 14 | However , the same techniques also detect this organism albeit at a lower prevalence , in other conditions in the gut . |
| 15 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | As it happened both Washington and Beijing were learning some of the skills of crisis management ( as well as " brinkmanship " ) , although a biographer of Eisenhower writes that the United States " came closer to using atomic weapons " in this crisis than at any other time in his presidency . |
| 17 | However , John Elliott ( 1981 ) has systematically researched attitudes at an 11–18 mixed comprehensive school set in a high-technology area and found strong support , among the parents who had selected the school at that time , for a balanced education which regards personal and social development as at least as important as academic development . |
| 18 | However it is worth remembering that the themes addressed by the papers in this issue are long-standing within social work and social welfare although at different times arising in response to different influences . |
| 19 | But even those who are reasonably secure financially often experience more anxiety over money matters in old age than at any other time in their life . |
| 20 | With two more days of sunshine forecast , there wo n't be a better place to be this week than at New Road . |
| 21 | Many of them were frustrated by the lack of progress under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative , seeing its message of free trade as at odds with the actions of an increasingly protectionist US Congress . |
| 22 | There were conflicts within individuals who found themselves looking nostalgically to their own tribal past while at the same time wanting to be part of the newly emerging social and economic order . |
| 23 | This Tory government , in its infinite wisdom , has decided not to introduce this ruling until at the earliest two thousand and three . |
| 24 | Increasingly , such a synthesis is seen as important , indeed essential for proper motivation whether at teacher or pupil level , and for the health of RE in general . |
| 25 | It is useless to apply organic matter in this form while at the same time inhibiting , by the use of certain artificial fertilizers , the fungi capable of converting that organic matter into humus . |
| 26 | Greece has suffered more forest fires this summer than at any time in the past 40 years . |
| 27 | Managing this situation while at the same time implementing the organisational , funding , and cultural changes that are required must be regarded as one of the foremost challenges facing local authorities . |
| 28 | Here the notion of the railway station as city gate was given direct architectural form as at London 's Euston half a century earlier . |
| 29 | They also have broad noses and sideways facing nostrils , and tend to sit in a hunched position when at rest . |
| 30 | The press was banned from publishing the name of the raped woman and the courts were prohibited from enquiring into her previous sexual history except at the discretion of the judge . |