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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is a very high level of security at the physical building . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Integrated-systems digital-networks , open systems interconnections and 1992 are popular subjects of conversation at the moment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One of the major controversies is concerned with the relation between high water level and the abrupt break of slope at the inshore margin of the beach , a feature which has sometimes been called the nip . |
| 20 | The organism has very high urease activity and it has been suggested that the production of high concentrations of ammonia at the epithelial surface could cause mucosal damage . |
| 21 | I joined a lively team of reporters at the Western Mail but when Peter Cole , the night assistant news editor left to join TWW , I got his job . |
| 22 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 23 | A large number of studies have been conducted with particular reference to eyewitness testimony in an attempt to decide what the effects of high levels of arousal at the time of a crime are likely to be on the testimony of a victim or witness . |
| 24 | This , he had eventually decided , was caused by the diversity of his present academic work , which was especially taxing in that one of his university duties was a daily round of language-teaching at the local high school , the Pädagogium . |
| 25 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 26 | Such increases can be achieved without additional visits in the routine immunisation schedule , and would also provide an added incentive for programme managers to ensure high rates of compliance at the 6 or 9 month visit for measles vaccination . |
| 27 | As John Major when Chancellor told the British Chambers of Commerce at the end of 1989 , we were set for ‘ a difficult year but a promising decade ’ . |
| 28 | She went straight down to the kitchen in the basement where her mutterings turned into a clear expression of disgust at the mess , cooking vessels all over the place and nothing cleared up . |
| 29 | Indeed the careerist political prostitutes have grown fat on the crumbs thrown from Westminster 's groaning table of goodies , whilst our people have faced the hard cold reality of deprivation , poverty , unemployment and even the daily threat of death at the unshackled hands of the Marxist terrorists . |
| 30 | Sociologically the difference between working and middle classes was that between servant-keepers and potential servants , and was so used in Seebohm Rowntree 's pioneer social survey of York at the end of the century . |