Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 2 | While overtly and inevitably she accepts women 's subordinate position , there are strong undercurrents of resentment at the restrictions of marriage and at her lost prosperity . |
| 3 | ( Beware of those therapists who seek to charge you for a complete course of treatment at the very beginning , as it is almost impossible to know how well each individual will respond and therefore how many sessions will be needed . ) |
| 4 | It is important to conduct a complete course of treatment at the required dosage with these products . |
| 5 | Spontaneous natural selection requires an advanced level of organization at the micro-biological stage . |
| 6 | Such experience may be a highly visible educational programme , with recognised qualifications although no specified organisational outcome ; it may be a training event focused on particular skills and understandings ; it may be an almost unrecognised flash of insight at the workplace , prompted consciously or unconsciously by others . |
| 7 | There was not much sale for that kind of thing at the time of Hilbert 's marriage . |
| 8 | Flowers simply shrivel up , the combined effect of dryness at the roots and attacks by tiny , shiny black pollen beetles , escapees from oil seed rape fields . |
| 9 | Lewis returned to England in March 1883 as assistant professor of pathology at the Army Medical School in Netley , where he introduced practical instruction in modern methods of bacteriological enquiry . |
| 10 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 11 | This removes some of the flexibility ( you need a mains socket ) , the portability ( the LAN adaptor itself may fit into your pocket , but you would n't want to carry a mains adaptor too ) , and the tidiness ( the power lead means yet another bit of wire at the back of your PC ) . |
| 12 | A total of 1240 patients had an emergency endoscopic examination within 12 hours of arrival at the emergency department . |
| 13 | For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot . |
| 14 | There was some kind of explosion at the clinic and all the staff got wiped out . |
| 15 | In this case , the DCSL exercised some kind of influence at the point of selection and provided some help with cataloguing and processing of the new resources once purchased . |
| 16 | Yeah just a just a wooden bit of wood at the front and a a wooden bottom and then they had erm bed what did they call bed-sacks they call them |
| 17 | I 've got to drop the keys and this bit of paper at the same time . ’ |
| 18 | The first ten minutes inside the ring at the Thomas and Mack Centre may determine whether Bowe has the will and the skill to produce another change of direction at the top of the heavyweight division . |
| 19 | Particular emphasis is placed upon longitudinal investigations of changes at the work-place or of the development of personal strategies to cope with stress in jobs or during unemployment . |
| 20 | There is a very high level of security at the physical building . |
| 21 | Drying time : wearable within the hour after drying in a warm room — if you do n't mind a few minutes of clamminess at the obvious places where the material is thicker such as the pockets and waistband . |
| 22 | On day five you depart by road for the three-and-a-half hour journey to the lively resort of Pattaya at the Gulf of Siam . |
| 23 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 24 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 25 | Francis Boyle , a well-known and distinguished professor of law at the University of Illinois , has dealt trenchantly ( see accompanying piece , right ) with the legal issues . |
| 26 | A further outbreak of strikes at the end of September , initiated by printers in Moscow , spread like wildfire , paralysing not only Moscow and St Petersburg but many provincial cities as well . |
| 27 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 28 | Integrated-systems digital-networks , open systems interconnections and 1992 are popular subjects of conversation at the moment . |
| 29 | Members of the York branch of the Embroiders ' Guild will demonstrate different styles of needlecraft at the city 's Treasurer 's House over the weekend . |
| 30 | One of the many indefensible anomalies of practice at the Bar is that the grant of silk is entirely in the discretion of political officer , the Lord Chancellor ; but he canvasses the views of various legal eminences including the heads of the judicial divisions . |