Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NUCPS , which together with the Civil and Public Servants Association , represents the 180 staff at Chester , has sent its response to the Government . |
| 2 | Michael was asked to give the introductory lecture at an engineering conference on the subject of his government review . |
| 3 | After entering the introductory corps at Ruffwood Comprehensive School , he joined the regular army at 16 and ‘ lived for being a soldier ’ . |
| 4 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 5 | The bottom half , known as the maie , is made from oak and has a series of ducts around the inside rim at the base , through which the juice runs out . |
| 6 | If we can keep it in broad percentage terms of the total work at the project level , fine , that can be done , efficiently and effectively . |
| 7 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 8 | 434,798 … was the total attendance at 42 English League matches . |
| 9 | 396,785 was the total attendance at 4l League matches , comparing with last year 's total at 40 matches of 447,352 |
| 10 | The EFL is not directly imposed on wage and industrial costs , so that these have sometimes risen within the total EFL at the cost of lower investment , higher prices or a reduced quality of service . |
| 11 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 12 | Had Barlow Clowes been shut down in 1985 , the total investment at risk in the offshore funds would have been less than £31 million . |
| 13 | I found the total silence at a depth of six metres interrupted only by the sound of my breathing quite eerie . |
| 14 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 15 | On balance , the large families left just enough people alive to keep the total population at a steady size . |
| 16 | The simplest way in which these changes may be projected through time is to take the total population at a given instant and to alter it year by year ( or by some other period of time ) according to a chosen assumption about future growth or decline . |
| 17 | The ratio of the proportions of lavas and pyroclastic rocks in any area is of some intrinsic interest , but the total rate at which new pyroclastic rocks and lavas are erupted at destructive plate margins is of more fundamental significance . |
| 18 | The partial pressure of a component gas is the pressure the gas would exert if it alone occupied the total volume at the same temperature . |
| 19 | Last week the Sizewell inquiry , at the Snape Maltings was assured by the board that the issues ‘ can be left for resolution in the normal way at an appropriate time in the project , since they do not require any fundamental system re-design to accommodate them ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I have calculated that selling the girdles at normal price — and in Leningrad this day I could get double the normal price at least — but at normal price I could still retire at the end of one day 's work . |
| 21 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 22 | I had certainly learned from my talk with Sir Horace Evans of the nature and seriousness of Eden 's malady ; but the great doctor had seemed hopeful in November that a few weeks ’ rest , followed by the normal holiday at Christmas , would be sufficient . |
| 23 | A sheep farmer is rearing his biggest ever lamb … a giant youngster twice the normal weight at birth . |
| 24 | She is past the normal age at which women retire and she is entitled to a railcard . |
| 25 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 26 | The point at which the saving of the differential tax at 15% on income outstrips the increased National Insurance liability is likely to be in the region of earnings of £75,000 as is illustrated by the following example . |
| 27 | In the course of this book we shall come across other national minorities : the Ukrainians and the Kazakhs in our tour of the provinces , and the Georgian question at the more theoretical level of high politics . |
| 28 | The disease is caused by unsterile methods of cutting the umbilical cord at birth or by ‘ dressing ’ it with ash , mud or animal dung . |
| 29 | This domain contains the ATP-binding site at positions 408 to 430 , and includes Lys430 , the residue equivalent to the highly conserved Lys295 of v-src . |
| 30 | Paul Lexington Productions had been able to mount The Hooded Owl at Taunton , but had been unable to bring it into town without Bobby Anscombe 's support . |