Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the great extent of one or the other at various times in the past , might be no more than a measure of the width of the contemporary climatic belts . |
| 2 | For me , it 's all part of the " Great Divide " — separating stylised news presentation at HTV from that bit of daily banter on the local pavement , or when having a half with one or two cronies at the White Lion , off the Common , or the Crown at nearby Hambrook . |
| 3 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 4 | It is to protect non-smokers from the health risks of passive smoking — risks which all those concerned with the welfare of employees , or the public at large , are having to face up to . |
| 5 | It can come from various sources , bosses , colleagues , customers , clients or the public at large . |
| 6 | The company , which makes polythene bags and which also has a recycling programme , believes a plan by Germany will not help the rest of the EC or the environment at large . |
| 7 | In making an apology one accepts blame for what has happened , but at the same time one tries to convince the injured party if there happens to be one , or the world at large if not , that the error is not to be taken as representative of the real self . |
| 8 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |
| 10 | Hotels showing this symbol offer an exciting ‘ package ’ of entertainment & attractions or an excursion at certain times of the year FREE of charge to customers staying 3 nights or more . |
| 11 | But there is no legal obligation to assist people in general nor the world at large . |
| 12 | Figure 3 shows that the stress at right angles to the surfaces of the crack , that is the force tending to open and extend it , is very severe and is concentrated very close indeed to the crack tip . |
| 13 | It was of course appreciated that the public at large was in favour of retaining the death penalty and that its abolition would be likely to lose votes for the Labour Party . |
| 14 | Any feeling of insecurity in the reader 's mind concerning this dual interpretation of unc is not so much due to the perversity of the author but is rather due to the dual role that the public at large expects x to play . |
| 15 | … There appears to be considerable uncertainty about its effects and in particular , about the approach to formula funding adopted by the Government which is thought to threaten job security in schools with high staff costs … the present uncertainties are hardly helping morale in the schools and we hope that the Government at national level and LEAs and headteachers at local . |
| 16 | There is , however , no sign that the Gentiles at large ever became acquainted with the Bible : it was bad Greek . |
| 17 | The ANOVA for repeated measures showed significant interaction ( p= 0.002 ) between groups and periods , indicating that the differences at successive measurements of IgM specific antibody secreting cells to gliadin between patients positive and negative to challenge were statistically significant . |
| 18 | If she had been , she might have reflected that the Thames at low tide symbolises lost opportunities , the failures that are inseparable from other people 's successes , the blank misery that is too often the other face of the coin of commerce . |
| 19 | They often remain in a state of despair that the world at large and their nearest friends and relatives treat them so badly . |
| 20 | And the 1980s have seen a determined rejection of imported fashions , the British novelist or dramatist speaking to his people in the confident expectation that the world at large , too , will insist on taking notice and asking for more . |
| 21 | Erm the other thing was that the people at senior level need to be reminded , if they do have a major problem erm that 's David and Malcolm , erm where , if they 've got a rather difficult case and it 's urgent and they want a , they do n't wan na have to put it on a , on a fax , they want , they need it there and then erm , and they do n't like the telephone call facility , I said well , well that 's primarily for consultants . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that the population at large has become more mobile in many ways . |
| 23 | Only criminals may slaughter animals so that the population at large is not brutalized . |
| 24 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 25 | Above all else designers should become involved with the millions of people who are now experiencing these problems and to demonstrate that the community at large increasingly understands that science and technology are not given . |
| 26 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 27 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 28 | As one experienced observer of the trade put it , ‘ The companies which suitable candidates work for consider that they have a greater need of their executives ’ services nowadays than the trade at large has . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That a corporation at common law can sue in respect of a libel there is no doubt . |
| 30 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |