Example sentences of "at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticizing the Greens for becoming a " bourgeois party " , Ditfurth accused them of being too keen to ally with the SPD ( in Hesse and Lower Saxony ) , and of abandoning , at a tumultuous April 26-28 congress in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ) , the rotation of party posts . |
| 2 | At a tumultuous meeting between Kohl and the east German party leaders on Aug. 30 , de Maizière described Rühe 's accusations as unacceptable and offered his resignation , which at that stage was rejected . |
| 3 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 4 | The same survey , looking at a three-month period , told a different story . |
| 5 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 6 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 7 | Arrive at your hotel anytime after midday and then meet your fellow weekenders at a pre-dinner reception at 7.00 pm followed by a leisurely dinner . |
| 8 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 9 | At a certain point , he wrote , you have to let go , he wrote , you have to let it go . |
| 10 | Obviously , it does not suddenly become safe to steepen the climb at a certain height , and it is now recognised that the angle should be progressively steepened . |
| 11 | Training will have made dancers more adept at a certain style of dance and they usually show preference fur a certain type of step : elevation , pointe work , pirouettes or whatever . |
| 12 | At a certain field strength — the lower critical field — the magnetic field began to penetrate portions of the sample and so the sample was a mixture of superconducting and normal states . |
| 13 | Income elasticity of demand for any product will change as income per head rises , but when income per head is currently at a certain level , income elasticity of demand for a product can be estimated from the statistical analysis . |
| 14 | I can not therefore deny that in this context a settled and preponderant public demand ought to be taken into account or that at a certain point it would have to prevail . |
| 15 | At a certain point in a writer 's career , he or she may want to set up his or her own publishing company . |
| 16 | Second , because those histories eventually facilitate a reversal in the object of analysis : at a certain stage it is no longer homosexuality , or the perversions as ordinarily understood , which need explaining , but ( among other things ) the classification of heterosexuality as the norm with homosexuality as its perverse other , and the splitting , displacements , and paranoia which accompany that division . |
| 17 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 18 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |
| 19 | We learn from experience that certain visible appearances are connected with tactile objects of a certain size at a certain distance from us . |
| 20 | Listen to him talking about his moment of conversion when at a certain event he ‘ asked Jesus into his heart ’ . |
| 21 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 22 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 23 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 24 | Abrams himself , North remarked with some heat , did not need to ask ; he knew ; but at a certain point , knowledge became uncomfortable . |
| 25 | Then , at a certain moment , I just could not go on with that any longer . |
| 26 | At a certain stage in the evening Modigliani would decide to undress , unravelling the long red scarf he wore around his waist in theatrical fashion . |
| 27 | Transformation : E. coli at a certain stage of their growth cycle can , after treatment with chemicals such as calcium chloride or rubidium chloride , take up raw DNA ( for example , DNA purified in the laboratory ) and , if it contains appropriate sequences , will incorporate them into their own genomes . |
| 28 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 29 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 30 | ‘ At a certain point one is compelled to develop a conception of insight , or pure thinking , which is not recognisably ‘ moral ’ , something which simulates , or is , the rising up of man into the divine , as if one were being driven into the godhead . ’ |