Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Velasco dies and his unique attempt at left-wing military government is over . |
| 2 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 3 | The uncustomary heat did n't help matters either , nor did the taxi driver 's attempt at jovial small talk , most of which Alyssia either ignored or answered in monosyllables . |
| 4 | The effect was that of an attempt at Mediterranean good taste , contrived by and for people who had no taste at all . |
| 5 | A revised pay offer for drivers at Western Scottish Buses was agreed between both sides at the Glasgow offices of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service yesterday . |
| 6 | A fourth major strand in the intrigue is provided by Cliff Burnett 's hard-nosed Ridley , while Bob Wisdom revels in the part of Wates , the inevitable American agent , overloaded with gadgetry and confusion at British social customs . |
| 7 | Detailed evidence for the full range of craftsmen at individual small towns is inevitably lacking , but it is possible to assemble a general picture by using material from a wide variety of sources . |
| 8 | The sculptor mason now thought to have built it , Valentine Strong , whose building family owned stone quarries at nearby Little Barrington , will long be remembered for his witty epitaph in Fairford churchyard : |
| 9 | But now the marketing department at Swindon-based National Power is giving him lift-off . |
| 10 | GREAT BRITAIN women paid the price for failing to capitalise on scoring chances when they slumped to a 2-1 defeat against the United States at Old Dominian , Virginia , on Sunday . |
| 11 | Alexis 's hot pants , £30 ; top £25 , Juliette Spatchett at Hyper Hyper . |
| 12 | Pendant , £18 , Lanssa Kay at Hyper Hyper . |
| 13 | Nor was there direct evidence of co-operation between language departments to any great extent , though close links between English , Foreign Language , Classics and Community Language Methods tutors at secondary level training should not be hard to develop . |
| 14 | For carp fishing at extreme long range , I use the needle-type , monkey-climb indicators , again with an Optonic . |
| 15 | Even younger hopefuls , like Nigel Williams and Paul Bryers ( whose recent The Adultery Department took inexplicable potshots at Seventies-style communal living ) , seem to borrow their stylistic and thematic ideas from Brian Rix rather than Evelyn Waugh . |
| 16 | Alternatively , you can use your vouchers for huge savings at exclusive European hotels . |
| 17 | The decree will come into effect at other European operations by the end of January . |
| 18 | There was no evidence of enhanced phosphorylation of proteins at other molecular weights by TAGH . |
| 19 | During their visit to Scotland , the Khmelnitski staff identified several areas of good practice at Scottish Nuclear for follow-up . |
| 20 | The management of resource allocation involves giving attention to all these matters and how they affect roles at different hierarchical levels . |
| 21 | As always , the Chairman and other members have represented the Young Bar at various overseas events , and it is always striking to note in other countries the extent to which the Young Bar forms a highly influential and powerful part of the Bar organisation . |
| 22 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 23 | From 1960 until 1967 he was employed as manager of the Buchanan Arms Hotel , and after holding posts at various Scottish colleges he took up his present post in 1983 as Head of Hotel Management and Catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology . |
| 24 | The administrative backlogs and incompetence at certain licensed dealers became a nightmare for clients . |
| 25 | Management at Digital wanted employees to change jobs and develop skills as the products and the production process developed . |
| 26 | He attended the trial of Zola daily , and he even smuggled a copy of his first book of essays , as it turns out I think the wildly inappropriate Les plaisirs et les jours , to the imprisoned Colonel Picard , who had become the defender of Dreyfus at considerable personal cost . |
| 27 | He overlapped with Mr Lamont at the House of Rothschild , spending 1969 to 1973 at the merchant bank before advising Lord Weinstock at General Electric Company . |
| 28 | He said : " I express our sincere contrition at Japanese past actions that inflicted unbearable suffering and sorrow upon a great many people of the Asian-Pacific region . " |
| 29 | A BOARDROOM revolt by non-executive directors at loss-making General Motors , the world 's largest industrial company , has curtailed the power of chairman Robert Stempel , writes Jonathan Confino in New York . |
| 30 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |