Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 32 | It was seen as an unveiled hint of royal displeasure at Scots separatists ( the elaborate investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , at a time when Welsh nationalism was acquiring an increasingly strident tone , had been intended to have a similar impact ) but it might also serve as a text for all the concerns of the monarchy . |
| 33 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 34 | Square it up , and measure to the centre of one long side at various points down the pile . |
| 35 | Dunloy 's Gregory O'Kane comes into the side at right half forward , with Paddy Walsh moving from the attack to midfield where he partners Paul McKillen in place of Paul Jennings who departed to America during the week . |
| 36 | I am not offering excuses , but up against such class it was unfortunate that we could not field a side at full strength . |
| 37 | But at the last minute , following a series of defections , O'Connor was drafted into the side at full back . |
| 38 | Turning round 3-9 behind , Selkirk suddenly recognised that again they had the beating of the title favourites , their match winner , Ian Ballantyne , having come into the side at short notice . |
| 39 | was seldom indeed far from Irene 's side at public functions , and , even when separated by the exigencies of social intercourse , could be seen following her about with his eyes , in which were strange expressions of watchfulness and longing … |
| 40 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 41 | Shilton , winner of a record 125 caps and a star of three World Cup campaigns , received the red card for slicing down an opponent in front of just 4,194 fans at humble Hull . |
| 42 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 43 | When analysis is complete it should set ( m ) 2 as less than 0–01 V 2 , a factor ten smaller than the upper limit found in the experiment at ILL . |
| 44 | The vast Butlins holiday camp just minutes from the town centre ( and the Place St Maur des Fosses ) offers the clowns self-catering chalets at bargain-basement rates . |
| 45 | His replies pleading inability to attend were sent from Bogota , and ‘ Bogota ’ became at the time a favourite Tory catcall at political meetings . |
| 46 | CYBERSCIENCE SEES OPEN SYSTEM BOOST AT HIGH-END |
| 47 | Seeking an answer , I visited the laboratory of Dr Alice J. ( Apple ) Pion , until recently a little-known physicist at Dismal Seepage , North Dakota , Community College . |
| 48 | However , liberal democracy requires a party — an aggregation of interests — to win the support of a mass electorate at frequent intervals . |
| 49 | Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have appealed to the electorate at large , regardless of any socioeconomic considerations . |
| 50 | Perhaps ; but a typical reaction of the electorate at large could be more confidently predicted : " If your candidates ca n't agree among themselves we 're not going to vote for any of them " . |
| 51 | Besides , primaries used for the selection and ranking of persons proposed for inclusion in party lists would be open to much the same objections as were raised earlier in these pages against choice by the electorate at large among candidates who actually figure in those lists . |
| 52 | The bursts of intra-party democracy within the Labour Party , reflected in the cry that " Conference should decide " , were invariably condemned as at odds with the essentials of the British constitution and as offensive to the magic , unmediated link between parliamentary leaders and " their " supporters ( not controllers ) in the electorate at large . |
| 53 | The Opposition and the electorate at large do not believe that . |
| 54 | But these issues , which so often seem to dominate the debate in Scotland at party political level , are frankly of little moment to the electorate at large . |
| 55 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 56 | Rising to the challenge , Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand at European Council meetings in April and June 1990 argued for , and won acceptance of , the need for a Political Union to complement EMU . |
| 57 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 58 | In July he succeeded in settling two years ' disruption at heavy labour cost ( 26 per cent ) and in his all-too-brief career he also announced a 5.9 trillion lire investment programme to be completed in 1995 , divided between fleet expansion ( 3.4 trillion lire ) and ground upgrading . |
| 59 | Although the Liberal-Nationals eventually retained power in the state by forming a minority government , the result was a serious blow for the coalition at federal level . |
| 60 | Following the Rhineland-Palatinate election the CSU threatened to withdraw from the governing CDU/CSU/FDP coalition at federal level , but after a five-hour meeting on May 8 the parties agreed to work towards common policies on such issues as abortion and immigration , and to reassert their traditional values . |