Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This structural information includes measures of horizontal fragmentation ( eg number of trade unions involved in each bargaining group ) and also vertical fragmentation ( eg whether bargaining takes place wholly or in part at national , company , or plant level ) . |
| 2 | They have no interest in the wider Jewish community or in society at large . ’ |
| 3 | New terms and relationships may be added as they arise , or in batches at predetermined intervals . |
| 4 | Others refuse to accept risks from activities which , they believe , bring no benefit to them or to society at large . |
| 5 | This is not because reactor accidents are more likely , but because the potential consequences for the general public of some reactor accidents are much greater than from accidents at other stages in the fuel cycle . |
| 6 | Consequently world trade was encouraged since all currencies were exchangeable for each other and for gold at stable rates of exchange . |
| 7 | He had played flanker for his club , Glasgow High-Kelvinside , and no.8 for Glasgow Under-21s , but had become thoroughly established as a lock , the position he played in at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow , where he benefited from the guidance of the school coach , Peter Billington , for Scottish Schools against Ireland and England in 1985 , for his senior clubs side and for Glasgow at senior district level . |
| 8 | The danger in this new drive that is a feature of many advanced industrial societies lies not only in raising unrealistic expectations from these areas of study but also in denigrating the contribution of the social sciences to economic growth and in neglecting the non-economic functions of education which are just as important to the well-being of individuals and of society at large . |
| 9 | Leeds ( 1984 ) , for example , argues that whereas all nucleated settlements ( or places in the present context ) have the same functions — ‘ facilitation of all forms of exchange , transfer , and communications while linking the nucleation or locality both with other localities and with society at large ( p. 295 ) — there is also a threefold specialization between places . |
| 10 | National legislative authority rests with a bicameral National Congress consisting of a Chamber of Deputies of variable size ( 487 in 1990 ) elected every four years by a system of proportional representation and a Federal Senate with 72 members elected for eight-year terms and with elections at four-year intervals for , alternately , one-third and two-thirds of the seats . |
| 11 | Built next to the station , with direct access from it and with rooms at economical prices , it was a deliberate attempt by the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to facilitate the development of the resort . |
| 12 | Good journalism can also stimulate change or action from politicians and from society at large . |
| 13 | New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large . |
| 14 | And within society at large , there is even more ignorance . |
| 15 | The most obvious change appears to be an even greater enthusiasm to be called at Question time ; one Member told me that he , like others was tabling a lot more Questions for oral answer to try to secure a television slot , and the Speaker confirmed that television had made Members generally anxious to be called , both for Questions and in debates at prime time . |
| 16 | The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible . |
| 17 | Both in psychology and in society at large , masculinity and femininity have long been conceptualised as bipolar ends of a single continuum . |
| 18 | Some believe that Jacobitism was a fairly significant force both within the Tory party and in society at large ( especially north of the border ) , so that at the time of the Hanoverian succession there was a realistic chance that a Jacobite coup might succeed . |
| 19 | It was possible to lend overnight to the traditional market and in theory at short term through overdrafts . |
| 20 | Travellers leaving Peru were screened at border crossings and on arrival at international airports . |
| 21 | In Japan the relationship of the individual to other individuals and to society at large is still governed largely by his or her membership of various groups . |
| 22 | With certain simplifying assumptions ( that selection is weak , and mating is random with respect to age and genotype ) the theory can be extended to diploids and to variation at multiple loci . |
| 23 | The Library and Records Centre is open to the public between 1.00pm–4.00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays , and by appointment at other times . |
| 24 | The spread of this reputation was aided by invitations to teach in schools from teachers practising worldwide and by displays at major events . |
| 25 | In short , statistics relating to old people are presented in such a way as to spread a great deal of gloom about the future , not only for the old themselves but for society at large . |
| 26 | The ‘ analytic/synthetic distinction ’ is crucial for Lipsey 's diagram ( Figure 3.1 ) , as for Positivism at large . |
| 27 | At some sites , where good building stone was scarce , timber-framed structures predominated throughout the Roman occupation , as for example at Great Chesterford , where all the known buildings with the exception of the two late official structures were of timber construction with gravel or earth floors , plaster covered wattle-and-daub walling and probably thatched roofs . |
| 28 | There tactics were strongly influenced by reliance on line formation and fire-power , as against attack at close quarters . |
| 29 | the Friday night as to look at different things |