Example sentences of "at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself .
2 At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift .
3 Inspection of the circuit diagram reveals that the tendency to perfect transmission at high-enough frequencies is due to that capacitor which shorts the output to input in this range .
4 She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot .
5 At each survey children are measured and parents are asked to complete a self administered questionnaire .
6 At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth .
7 The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change .
8 We followed lamblike , dropping like ninepins at each turn .
9 In practice it is often difficult to define bibliographical types in a way that gives a reliable guide to content , and the selector is best advised to look at each bibliography individually .
10 At each quantity of hours , SS ' ; lies vertically above SS by a distance reflecting the tax on earnings from the last hour worked .
11 To complete the picture it is necessary to add that , at each reference to babies and new life , Mrs Bostock and Eliza Waters had exchanged meaningful smiles .
12 The mainframe is linked to detection boxes developed by Granada , which are based at each customer 's site .
13 In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond , presented on an arbitrary scale .
14 In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond , presented on an arbitrary scale .
15 In the last analysis , they relate to the number of pits , and the number of jobs available at each pit .
16 At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object .
17 And he had assistants at each yard you see .
18 If many paths pick up additional cost at each expansion , then the cost of a path will increase with its length .
19 Backwards and forwards the engine passes , increasing its load at each operation , until behind its tender it may have a string of vehicles more than two hundred yards in length with a brake van in the rear .
20 There is instant access to funds at each maturity date .
21 In fact , a pre-school child may swallow 0.3 grams to 0–4 grams of toothpaste at each brushing ( Journal of Dental Research , vol 5 p 1317 ) .
22 When one heard the whistle in the distance , one 's whole body contracted to resist the too excessively potent vibrations of the explosion , and at each repetition it was a new attack , a new fatigue , a new suffering .
23 The opportunity should be taken to also look at each Branch constitution to see if any need to be revised in the light of the new legislation .
24 Dancers easily understand how a series of swift pas de bourrée courus ( i.e. running on the toes ) as danced by the Queen of the Wilis in Giselle , differs from the same step performed piqué ( i.e. each foot picked up sharply at each change of weight ) , as in many of petipa 's solos .
25 This checklist is to be used at each change of activity .
26 Drybulb and dewpoint temperatures of air were regulated at each 7.6m along the chamber to track temporal variation in the glasshouse .
27 The daytime drybulb temperature and vapour pressure deficit of air after regulation at each 7.6m along the chamber were a mean 26°C ) during the time sampled leaves of oats and mustard expanded and 20.6°C ( N= 24 ) and 1.13kPa ( N= 19 ) during wheat growth .
28 The small changes in drybulb and dewpoint temperatures between points of regulation at each 7.6m along the chamber had no significant influence on the relationship of c i /c a of individual species or cultivars to c a .
29 Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’
30 It was a sprawling split-level place where you could take on board anything from a glass of beer to a four-course dinner plus the right wines at each course and with about as much choice about where to sit : at tables in the middle at booths and alcoves at the sides on the bar stools on other stools up against long shelves .
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