Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The introduction of Teds , a bear-shaped burger-type product , under the specially created ‘ My Favourite ’ trademark is only one of a new range of products targeted at new customers .
2 A conventional joystick uses a pair of potentiometers mounted at right angles to each other , the spindles being mechanically linked to a central knob .
3 The measurement is derived from the very small difference in the time of arrival of signals received at different telescopes from a distant radio source ( usually a quasar ) .
4 In general , it is probably fair to say that the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies provide a better general model for the in-depth study of communities located at various points in the class continuum .
5 Lydia 's kitchen was littered with left-overs , stacks of plates balanced at crazy angles and glass bowls full of capsizing mousse .
6 The total number of labelled and unlabelled cells was counted under an optical grid over the full thickness of the mucosa at a number of sites chosen at random on each specimen ( approximately 1000 cells per site ) .
7 Techniques exist for the ‘ stitching ’ of such fractures and they include a method in which groups of holes spaced at pre-defined centres are drilled across , and at right angles to each crack .
8 Thom worked throughout World War II at the Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough , where he commissioned and ran the high-speed tunnel , enabling the study of problems encountered at high subsonic aircraft speeds causing locally supersonic flow .
9 From July 1972 a Committee of Officers met at regular intervals .
10 Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products .
11 Set to Tcherepnin 's Bagatelles , it was an adult equivalent of items seen at dancing-school shows .
12 I also considered the number of claims made for visits by deputies before and after the 1990 contract and the ages of patients visited at different times of night .
13 All barriers to trade in community-originated goods were to be eliminated by January 1994 , but there remained problems with implementation in individual member states of decisions made at regional level .
14 After all , the argument that a list of numbers drawn at random by a programmed computer had no human author was rejected , as we have seen , in the Express Newspaper case .
15 The Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ) , the body overseeing Taiwan 's relations with China , approved a series of measures aimed at increasing links with the mainland during a conference held on Sept. 19-20 .
16 In the aftermath of the mid-1989 turmoil in China the UK government and the Hong Kong authorities proposed a package of measures aimed at restoring confidence in the colony ahead of 1997 .
17 During 1993 , some of you will be asked to participate in a series of initiatives aimed at improving performance in all aspects of our business .
18 The book is a collection of documents aimed at stimulating discussion and action and at promoting a more general awareness of the cultural environment in which the mass media play a major part .
19 ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’
20 It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade .
21 Assessment of samples stored at elevated temperatures may be made very approximately on the assumption of a two-fold acceleration for each 10°C rise in temperature .
22 It is a wheel of vanes set at right angles to the sails , so that if the wind is not striking the sails , it must strike the fantail and turn the sails into the wind again .
23 This methodology might be applicable to large-scale seroepidemiological studies of pathogens found at low prevalence within populations .
24 This showed that about two-thirds of jobs generated at inner city establishments were filled by commuters from other parts of the conurbation .
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