Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at different " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Despite these many reports , a comprehensive evaluation of the motor function at different levels of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients has never been carried out . |
| 3 | Depending on the context , sources will have different importance at different times . |
| 4 | In bilingual communities undergoing a process of language shift , the sexes are likely to focus on the new monolingual norm at different rates ( Gal 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding that a particular central government department has total responsibility for the discharge of particular functions — from formulation of general overall policy to implementation in the form of decisions in particular cases ‘ on the ground ’ — it may nevertheless be desirable to distribute actual administration at different levels on a geographical basis . |
| 6 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 7 | The exhibition aims to reveal the multiple character of Gris ' Cubist style at different periods in his career , from his earliest collages to works of the late 1920s. when he achieved a perfect balance between spiritual content and the dictates of structure . |
| 8 | Most localities with nationalized factories felt the impact of hardening government policies in the 1980s , but effects were selective in space and time as different public corporations received political attention at different dates . |
| 9 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 10 | This latter development gathered momentum at different times in different places . |
| 11 | It is clear that any empirical application , developing along the lines described in Lecture 6 , should take account of the input-output structure , and the nature of firm behaviour at different stages of production . |
| 12 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 13 | This is where the forces of the earth are exposed with a dramatic clarity and where billion-year old rocks , deposited at a time when seas extended right across the valley give the stark harshness of the area a startling and a rare and sometimes unexpected beauty at different times of the day . |
| 14 | Because different amps achieve their maximum usable volume at different settings — ie. one at 5 and another at 8 — I 'm not sure how you 'd apply whatever criteria you came up with for the tests . |
| 15 | However , the regression coefficients relating birth weight and systolic pressure in those children , once adjusted for variation in the standard deviation of systolic pressure at different ages , do not become consistently stronger with age ( figure ) . |
| 16 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 17 | All could agree on the need to secure appropriate action from parliament and government , but how far this required agitation of mass support at different times and how much deference should be paid to the judgement and tactics of parliamentary abolitionists were points of tension both early and late within antislavery . |
| 18 | Given this , it follows that different pupils may satisfy a given criterion at different ages : to tie the criteria to particular ages only would risk either limiting the very able , or giving the least able no reward , or both . |
| 19 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |
| 20 | A test based on a single product at different stages of its life-cycle does not attempt to deal with that situation . |
| 21 | The correlation of the same velocity component at a single point at different instants is known as an autocorrelation . |
| 22 | This is partly because the depiction of the same building on coins of a particular city at different dates may , through its variation , reveal complementary details . |
| 23 | Tolkien took different views of his own work 's religious content at different times . |
| 24 | A tidal acceleration is the difference between gravitational acceleration at different locations so that the corresponding parameters in curved space–time are the second derivatives of the metric connections . |
| 25 | For the purpose of a quantitative comparison of relative occupancy at different sites , only those binding sites which are clearly isolated from neighbouring sites were utilised . |
| 26 | To ascertain with accuracy whether such structure existed throughout its whole length , I made sections of the spinal marrow at different distances from the brain , and found that each divided portion exhibited an orifice with a diameter sufficient to admit a large sized pin ; from which a small quantity of transparent colourless fluid issued like that contained in the ventricles of the brain . |
| 27 | The NFER project team concentrated its investigations on the technical issues of devising evidence of positive achievement at different levels , and the organizational problems perceived by teachers working with the project team in implementing a graduated test scheme . |
| 28 | The reasons for the apparent change in relative incidence at different sites are poorly understood and there is controversy about whether the increase of cardia cancer represents an absolute increment or whether the apparent increase is related to a decreased incidence of antral tumours . |
| 29 | This is consistent with the view that the structure of section 18 is related to the status of both parties ( as assisted or unassisted ) and operates differentially according to their relative status at different stages of the proceedings . |
| 30 | The heart of the book was a chapter on ‘ The Historian At Work ’ which I do believe was original in setting out the processes which historians go through , from discovering and analysing sources to producing written history at different levels . |