Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 2 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 3 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 4 | Advertisements may range in size from a small window notice to a massive hoarding ; they vary in purpose from a bus stop sign to the demand to buy a certain make of detergent ; they could be situated alongside a cathedral , in a busy shopping street , or in a particularly beautiful rural setting ; they might be pleasant or obnoxious to look at ; they might be temporary or permanent ; and so on . |
| 5 | Since Balbinder clearly made more progress in a small group where he could have a lot of attention , and where all worked at the same pace , this could be an answer . |
| 6 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 7 | What happens if her father is unwilling or unable to stay at home with her ? |
| 8 | In theory it is possible to raise new points not dealt with in the pleadings or argument in the trial , but the Court of Appeal is reluctant to exercise the power to admit them , since it smacks of allowing the running of alternative arguments where those run at trial have failed . |
| 9 | We may feel that we are being neurotic if we have a bad self-image , vain if we have a good one , or trivial to care at all . |
| 10 | From there things had grown even worse , and now she felt a sensation of panic if she even had to go to the local shops , in case she encountered a sparrow or two pecking at some crumbs in her path . |
| 11 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 12 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 13 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 14 | It was a very disturbing erm letter that that arrived at some flats , that was from Birmingham . |
| 15 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
| 16 | Eighteen to 48 hours after thrombolytic therapy about 85% of vessels are open , with the minority remaining occluded , This patency rate is rather higher than that seen at 90 minutes following similar thrombolytic treatment ( 65–70% ) . |
| 17 | If the Opposition is to achieve even the most limited of its ambitions , and push John Mayor into a minority government , Labour 's bottom line is to achieve a swing larger than that seen at any election since the war . |
| 18 | This suggests that the dissociation half life from this sequence is between 1-2 minutes , faster than that seen at any of the sites in the natural DNA fragment under similar conditions . |
| 19 | Our estimate of the percentage of multiparasitized nests containing more than one egg of the same female at Guadix is close to that given by Soler , but significantly lower than that obtained at Santa Fe ( Table 1 ) . |
| 20 | Disabled Visitors : Narrow and uneven paths and many steps , not ideal for wheelchairs ; no more than 2 admitted at one time ; may be loaned at ticket office . |
| 21 | The question is how far a company exports the mores of its own country to another ( as the US tends to encourage by devices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , although this does at least exempt ‘ greasing the palm ’ of minor officials ) . |
| 22 | Although this looks at first to be quite incomprehensible , it is actually quite a friendly little creature and most willing to assist you with either your work or play , as long as you take a short amount of time to learn a few basic commands . |
| 23 | ( The housing charity , Shelfter , says that this represents at least 420000 people . ) |
| 24 | In the UK it is commonly agreed that this happens at least in part because of the extent to which farming , relative to industrial , interests are " understood " in most Conservative cabinets ( and even some Labour ones ! ) . |
| 25 | That is now the end because of the difference of one A but if you 're proposing that this comes at the end of one A , you 're proposing to tack it on to the end of roman numeral three in the labour amendment as was the council 's which I take it , was not what you intend its effect to be . |
| 26 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 27 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |
| 28 | he 's more than welcome to crash at ours . |
| 29 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 30 | It is also worth while examining the Table for differences between the two time points ; one might have expected that those sustained at home for 12 months would possess fewer ‘ home care disadvantages ’ at referral than those sustained for six months . |