Example sentences of "[noun] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Leo had also been taking steps to revivify the influence of religion at other levels . |
| 2 | It politely requested that , for security reasons , I bring my ship down to Underlight speed at specific co-ordinates , at a specific time , and prepare for rendezvous with the Emissary 's ship . |
| 3 | It is a pathetic and lamentable contrast to the vital contribution made by the arts at previous Expos in , for example , Paris in 1900 and 1937 , or Montreal in 1967 . |
| 4 | The attention focusing interpretation of Studies 2 and 3 assumed that risks at dangerous junctions provide better recognition cues than those at safer junction . |
| 5 | This could be because risks at dangerous junctions tend to be multiple and often specific to individual films while risks at safer junctions are often single and common to many exemplars . |
| 6 | Notes Sheep farms are not recommended for visits by pregnant ladies , due to health risks at lambing times . |
| 7 | This is a well-documented conflict , especially among creative people who need isolation at certain times and company at others . |
| 8 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 9 | She started taking stands at antique fairs in Kent , and at weekends or during school holidays the whole family plus dogs would go on expeditions to Wales , the West Country and East Anglia . |
| 10 | Indeed , the same patient may require more than one remedy at different stages of the treatment programme . |
| 11 | ( This practice is by no means confined to French music of the period , as a glance at early sources of , say , Purcell 's music will show . ) |
| 12 | The only workable categorization of Elvis 's music , as we have seen , is not by historical period but by song-type — or more precisely , by apparently self-contradictory assemblages of musical elements as they are mediated by the differential demands of varied songs at various moments . |
| 13 | In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view . |
| 14 | The banks utilized domestic and foreign financial resources , they were shareholders of and suppliers of credits to domestic and foreign industrial companies , they combined the short-term business of deposit banking with the long-term business of investment banking and also provided stockbroker services , managed their clients ' portfolios , acquired shares and voted their own and their customers ' stock at general meetings of joint-stock companies . |
| 15 | Ken and Pat Ferguson would like to re-cover your dining-chair seats for a labour charge of only £5 each plus the cost of fabric , which you can choose from a selection of pieces available in stock at reduced prices , or supply your own fabric . |
| 16 | In stock at competitive prices |
| 17 | It was seen as an unveiled hint of royal displeasure at Scots separatists ( the elaborate investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , at a time when Welsh nationalism was acquiring an increasingly strident tone , had been intended to have a similar impact ) but it might also serve as a text for all the concerns of the monarchy . |
| 18 | Square it up , and measure to the centre of one long side at various points down the pile . |
| 19 | was seldom indeed far from Irene 's side at public functions , and , even when separated by the exigencies of social intercourse , could be seen following her about with his eyes , in which were strange expressions of watchfulness and longing … |
| 20 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 21 | The vast Butlins holiday camp just minutes from the town centre ( and the Place St Maur des Fosses ) offers the clowns self-catering chalets at bargain-basement rates . |
| 22 | His replies pleading inability to attend were sent from Bogota , and ‘ Bogota ’ became at the time a favourite Tory catcall at political meetings . |
| 23 | However , liberal democracy requires a party — an aggregation of interests — to win the support of a mass electorate at frequent intervals . |
| 24 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 25 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 26 | The brilliant Martin Allen and Peter Butler ran the midfield and fed Morley at regular intervals but Knight used every part of his body to stem the tide . |
| 27 | The network designed to provide negative feedback over the required operational frequency range can itself introduce positive feedback at other frequencies . |
| 28 | He harshly criticized the government , accusing it of " treasonous " mismanagement of the economy by selling off national property to foreigners at cut-rate prices in its bid to privatize state-owned companies . |
| 29 | The main restrictions on foreign travel now remaining appeared to be the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange ( only $200 could be bought in the Soviet Union ) , visas ( due to long waiting lists at Western embassies in Moscow ) and airline tickets ( for example , the Soviet state airline Aeroflot reported a 13-month waiting list for New York flights ) . |
| 30 | This latter development gathered momentum at different times in different places . |