Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stay in a suite at Manila 's most elegant and historic hotel at the attractive rate of US$190++ . |
| 2 | Insofar as good credit scoring systems weigh up an individual 's characteristics and background in a way which truly and accurately does reflect wide experience of similar characteristics and background , these systems can discriminate between good and bad risks more reliably than non-scoring systems which make a more partial and subjective stab at the same target . |
| 3 | In mid-June Conde had been questioned by police in connection with the discovery of parcels of weapons and political leaflets at the airport ; his summons provoked clashes between his supporters and the security forces , after which some 60 people were arrested and all demonstrations in the capital banned . |
| 4 | The boundaries of that part of the working classes — it might overlap with the independent craftsmen , shopkeeper and even the small entrepreneur — which was coming to be recognised as a social and political force pretty well coincided with those of the world of clubs — Mutual Aid Societies , fraternal benevolent orders ( generally with strong rituals ) , choirs , gymnastic or sports clubs , even voluntary religious organisations at one extreme , labour unions and political associations at the other . |
| 5 | For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) . |
| 6 | A consequence of this policy should be an expansion of German and Spanish teaching at the expense of French . |
| 7 | Born in Los Angeles in 1940 , she majored in journalism and Spanish studies at the University of Southern California . |
| 8 | If one partner opts out of the physical caring , decision-making and adolescent crises at the expense of the other , a load of resentment and dissatisfaction soon builds up . |
| 9 | As with the Supergrid , the leading electrical engineering consultants were generally more adventurous and expressed surprise at the conservatism of the BEA , though , in order to keep their power station consultancy contracts , they went along with headquarters ' design policy . |
| 10 | They sometimes excelled in the art of misleading Whitehall with what at best were plausible half-truths , and expressed astonishment at the mixture of the trivial and the monumental which the political origins of some queries forced on civil servants . |
| 11 | A statement issued after the meeting condemned Iraq for delaying the release of Kuwaiti prisoners and expressed satisfaction at the " level of co-ordination " between parties to the Damascus Declaration on regional defence . |
| 12 | Most of them returned after a brief and long-awaited glimpse at the West . |
| 13 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 14 | We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time . |
| 15 | Mosley himself admired Lloyd George 's qualities of leadership and had been impressed by his energy and administrative skills at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1916 . |
| 16 | Mr Jarvis said the problem loans tended to be those to leaseholds and leisure-type outlets at the ‘ fashion ’ end of the business . |
| 17 | Under the reform , elections would be held under a system of proportional representation , with officials re-electable for four-year periods but unable to occupy several positions at the various levels of local and regional government at the same time . |
| 18 | Neighbouring management and striking workers at the Yarrow warship yard on the Clyde , yards from the Leyland-DAF plant in Scotstoun , are again at stalemate in spite of brief talks between the two sides on Monday . |
| 19 | It involves computer based work on social and spatial change at the national , regional and local authority levels ; locality research on housing markets and labour markets ; household research on the unemployed , the elderly and newly married couples . |
| 20 | Another , again like a beehive but with a flattened top and pillbox entry on it , belonged to the priory and collegiate church at the medieval fishing port of Crail . |
| 21 | Independence of domestic policies Under the adjustable peg system , deficit countries had to direct fiscal and monetary policies at the external situation since expenditure-reducing was the only way in which the balance of payments could be improved without devaluation . |
| 22 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 23 | In a letter to Ripa di Meana , Prime Minister John Major warned that the demand to halt work might jeopardize the chances of Britain agreeing to sign the treaty on political and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 24 | For example , the desired values of unemployment , inflation and monetary growth at the end of 1987 could be specified to be 2 million , 6% and 8% , or whatever combination is desired . |
| 25 | The hierarchy is arranged so that groups of strong and weak elements at the lowest level themselves form strong or weak elements at the next level up and so on throughout the hierarchy , somewhat in the manner of the hierarchical structure of syntax . |
| 26 | Those countries are co-ordinating their industrial and economic strategies at the regional level . |
| 27 | There is a renewal of interest in localities and the relationships between broad structural changes and social and economic change at the local level . |
| 28 | Lynne Brindley , The Librarian , The British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics |
| 29 | The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy . |
| 30 | These vehicles were mounted on six-wheel bogies , and enclosed balconies at the adjoining ends formed entrance porches with connecting gangways . |