Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have found many of the stations we have visited are interested in using GOMIS as part of their upgrading , and the project at Desnogorsk will be a pilot for possible installation at other stations ’ , said Arthur . |
| 2 | Judging by the way he has padded out his script with old theatrical chestnuts , this is the stage Chaplin himself has reached : the few passages of real insight are surrounded by yards of whiskery patter , strained attempts at sophisticated wit and specious topical references . |
| 3 | The software has been developed and tested with the aid of data derived from laboratory experimental apparatus designed to investigate rock-water reactions at elevated temperature and pressure ( 200°C , 300 bars ) under fluid-flow conditions . |
| 4 | Mr. Duggan said a lot of people needed an informal and friendly support at various times . |
| 5 | Electrical conductivity of carbon-bearing granulite at raised temperatures and pressures |
| 6 | Items included in the inaugural issue are a retrospective look at political and religious events affecting Latin America during 1991 , an article on the region 's diminishing health services and a calendar of ecumenical activities for 1992 . |
| 7 | Stephen Lee takes a retrospective look at Alpine life |
| 8 | Unless you intend to fit double-glazing yourself ( and even ‘ Cling-film ’ can be very effective ) , it is best to get brochures and free estimates from several of the largest and longest-established firms in this field before making any decision , as there are numerous small firms selling sub-standard products at high prices . |
| 9 | A concerted effort on waste management could produce harmonious results and salvage some of the valuable manpower squandered by the present government in its purist attempts at national good housekeeping . |
| 10 | What was new , however , is what Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 127 ) call ‘ organisational learning ’ : acting on experience gained from earlier failed attempts at administrative reform . |
| 11 | Gravitational energy can be released in a different way by the growth of the metallic hydrogen region at the expense of the molecular hydrogen region , because metallic hydrogen at comparable pressures and temperatures is the denser . |
| 12 | We still have location-based teams but these work in partnership to make the best use of specific expertise at particular sites . |
| 13 | Second , there are ‘ coupling constraints ’ , which reflect individuals ' commitments to engage in specific activities at specific times ( work , school , or appointments ) which may be at odds with the timing of public transport services . |
| 14 | He cautions against any hasty attempts at imposing reform from outside , warning that they would be very likely to upset the delicate social and economic balance which society has achieved — to cause unemployment among the medical profession , for instance , and to weaken the funeral as one of the main bonds of family life . |
| 15 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 16 | Cadbury World at Bournville tells the story of chocolate and there 's a collection of historic cars at nearby Autoworld . |
| 17 | Hence , the two parts of the protein could move independently with respect to each other providing CytR with the possibility to interact with binding sites with different structures and cAMP-CRP complexes at varying distances . |
| 18 | Thames Valley Police have defended their decision to pursue a stolen car at high speed through a city centre . |
| 19 | From 1965–1968 , he was an assistant priest at Holy Trinity , Brook Green . |
| 20 | Children may move between the independent and maintained sectors at different stages of their school career ; many different patterns of schooling are possible , some of these are illustrated in Figure 5.15 . |
| 21 | ‘ The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit , but not the ‘ war ’ , says David Lomax , Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank , in his January economic review . |
| 22 | He took on the lectures , started by J. W. Hinchley [ q.v. ] in 1909 at Battersea Polytechnic , in 1917 when Hinchley was made an assistant professor at Imperial College . |
| 23 | There are two flights of broad steps at right angles to each other , descending to the paved courtyard : the arrangement is reminiscent of the Theatral Area at Knossos , though at Phaistos it is located in the north-east corner of the West Court . |
| 24 | Thus great areas of central Spain were condemned to the extensive farming of cereals for low yields at great expense of labour . |
| 25 | German car manufacturers are now producing advanced designs at affordable prices . |
| 26 | I was ill for a lot of my boyhood , but I did manage one complete term at prep school . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It recommended that criminal charges be brought , stating that " indiscriminate and prolonged shooting at innocent demonstrators is morally and legally indefensible and is deserving of the strongest censure " . |
| 29 | A respectable attempt at comic characterization , its undiminished contrivance ultimately mars the simplicity of It Only Takes a Moment , already performed as a send-up of movie love balladry , with townspeople and extras wandering in for the chorus . ’ |
| 30 | Most local authorities are now contested by the major political parties at local elections ( Widdicombe 1986:30 ) . |