Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there can be defects in an enzyme , either in its amount or in its function , causing either a partial or total block at a specific point in a metabolic pathway . |
| 2 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 3 | Do n't forget , she was returning to a village in the north , hardly the most progressive or liberal-minded place at the best of times , and this particular village was especially proud of its moral record . |
| 4 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 5 | ‘ What we want , then , Inspector , ’ he said bracingly , ‘ is a new avenue or fresh look at an old one . ’ |
| 6 | However , the Full Moon on May 16 could provide a happy ending and , despite the odd hold-up or broken promise at the end of May , things are looking up professionally and financially . |
| 7 | Out of 72 cases only 20 resulted in the ministry obtaining compensation or remedial work at no cost to themselves . |
| 8 | If you want to open a National Savings Investment or Ordinary Account at a post office , you will now be asked to give proof of your identity . |
| 9 | ‘ A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under a secure tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant 's death and either — ( a ) he is the tenant 's spouse , or ( b ) he is another member of the tenant 's family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death ; … |
| 10 | But , as a recent OECD publication Labour Market Policies for the 1990s ( OECD 1990a ) has shown , the United Kingdom , of all member countries , had the second lowest percentage of young people in full- or part-time education at the age of 17 in 1986 — 7 . |
| 11 | You are not likely to be asked to write a report on a complex or recondite subject at the stage that you have reached in your studies . |
| 12 | All that now remains is to fit the stand-offs and stretchers ( also called whiskers or whiskas in some kites ) which enable the kite to adopt its conical shape , and as described earlier , to Induce ‘ washout ’ or reflex angle at the tips . |
| 13 | On an index of potential or actual delinquency at the age of 11 — based on stealing , truancy and trouble with neighbours , police or school — high scores were associated with severe or frequent corporal punishment . |
| 14 | And er during the time I was in in Albert Street although I was still very interested in the union and on the committee I think I was president or vice president at the time , there the job for a local organizer come up . |
| 15 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 16 | Prof J. Bremner , CChem , FRSC , has taken up his appointment as professor or organic chemistry at the University of Wollongong , Australia . |
| 17 | She has not been directly involved in the Orkney situation , but she did lecture on ritual or satanic abuse at a two-day seminar in Aberdeen in November 1990 . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Where there is an available market for the goods in question the measure of damages is prima facie to be ascertained by the difference between the contract price and market or current price at the time or times when the goods ought to have been accepted , or ( if no time was fixed for acceptance ) at the time of the refusal to accept . ’ |
| 19 | In the major conurbations day special schools may be available ( for example , London , Birmingham ) , but for pupils in rural or inaccessible areas weekly or half-termly residence at a special school may still be the only viable option . |
| 20 | There are a few people who develop sores or cracked skin at the corner of the mouth and suffer from riboflavin or vitamin B2 deficiency . |
| 21 | Graphics-based applications are developed using the company 's C-Scape screen handler , which includes application programming interfaces for running Windows 3 , Motif or Open Look at the front-end . |
| 22 | Polybrene ( 1 ) , a polycation , allows transfection of Chinese hamster ovary ( CHO ) cells with either plasmid or genomic DNA at an efficiency about 10-fold greater than calcium phosphate mediated gene transfer ( 2 ) . |
| 23 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 24 | The production of written or spoken language at the single-word level ( as , for example , when you answer a question like ‘ What is the large grey animal with tusks and a trunk ? ’ or write down the name of a picture shown to you ) is not difficult to explain . |
| 25 | For the union , an interim injunction prevents the calling of a strike or other action at a time which the union has decided is the most effective . |
| 26 | Wherever there appears to be a ‘ mystique ’ about the interviewing — suggestions that these results were possible because of some mystical skills possessed by the interviewer — then one is likely to be moving from social science towards journalism , or special pleading at the very least . |
| 27 | In practice many laboratories use two electrodes on the scalp , one at the vertex ( midway centrally between the bridge of the nose and the inion , or bony bump at the base of the cranium ) , and one frontally , about two centimetres behind the hairline . |
| 28 | The ISIS-2 trial , although not designed to assess the effects of heparin , also provided subgroup data for patients who received subcutaneous or intravenous heparin at the discretion of the treating physician . |
| 29 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 30 | The figure of over 40 per cent seems too high to be merely chance and he suggested that burials were being placed on boundaries , and that hence , because the dates of the burials were known from the types of grave goods , the boundaries must be of sixth- or seventh-century date at the latest . |