Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Founding shareholders are reluctant to dilute their controlling holdings or to sell shares at depressed prices . |
| 2 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 3 | The data is subjected to conventional analysis to find exceedences over alarm levels or to measure amplitudes at certain critical frequencies . |
| 4 | For the shorter observations , we preferred to match the frequency resolution in the QPO region rather than maximize information at low frequencies ; we therefore split each individual observation into lengths of 5,000s , which gave 11 independent data sets for each group . |
| 5 | The project will contribute to the methodology of evaluating policy by the use of multilevel modelling , a technique that allows influences at different levels ( such as student , school , education authority ) to be more precisely estimated . |
| 6 | So there 's a whole a series of complicated equations that take place at different layers in the furnace and different temperatures , but the end product of of all of these is basically to produce the iron , slag and carbon dioxide , carbon monoxide and nitrogen . |
| 7 | Understanding the transcriptional regulation of the PPT promoter has been hampered by the absence of established cell lines that express PPT at high levels either endogenously ( 3 ) or when transfected with plasmids containing fragments of the PPT promoter linked to a reporter gene ( 4 , and personal observations ] ) . |
| 8 | During the worst weeks of the Verdun fighting , de Castelnau impressed Colonel Repington ( the elephantine Times correspondent who , in between the purveyance of social tittle-tattle from one dining table to another , was a fairly astute military critic ) on his way to dine at the Ritz , with the words : ‘ Rather than accept slavery at German hands the French race would die upon the battlefield . ’ |
| 9 | He turned the clock back to 1926 in his south Armagh centre hostelry , and sold drinks at pre-war prices — pints fivepence , and shorts threepence — for a whole afternoon ! |
| 10 | With any model , however limited , implementation proceeds unevenly and involves participation at local level , a degree of flexibility in plans and among planners , a measure of decentralisation of control and the development of management techniques at local as well as at central level , together with the communication and the partnership which make all these possible . |
| 11 | To plan and coordinate seminars/workshops at different levels . |
| 12 | Their opinion is that sponsored events on public highways are dangerous and place participants at unnecessary risk , and they have decided they will no longer support them . |
| 13 | In the meantime , the TQT system is set up and is functioning within the Division , and will be presented to all levels of INROADS and support staff at informal meetings shortly . |
| 14 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 15 | Hundreds of screaming youths hurled stones and scrap metal at allied tanks , armoured personnel carriers and jeeps that rolled through a part of central Mogadishu thick with smoke from burning tyres . |
| 16 | Students took to the streets after the Jerusalem stabbings and threw stones at Arab-owned vehicles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This scheme includes inter-county representative games , the MCC Schools Festival at Oxford and Lord 's internationals at Under-14 , Under-15 and Under-19 levels , the Under-14 and Under-15 Festivals , and coaching courses at regional and national level from Under-12 to Under-17 . |
| 19 | James granted two Edinburgh businessmen a patent to set up a printing press and produce books at reasonable prices : a comfortable monopoly , since at the same time he proscribed the import into Scotland of any books printed abroad . |
| 20 | Walking through her kitchen and cutting gardens at break-neck speed , marvelling at the weedless beds , and pyramids of purple clematis , the imposing topiary ( ‘ Russell [ Page ] used to tell me , ‘ Let them get fluffy and fabulous ’ ’ ) , Mrs Guest is in full flood : ‘ Oh , those chipmunks are wrecking my garden , ’ she declares , straightening a single toppled plant in an acreage of formidable order , and tugging nimbly at a lone weed . |
| 21 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 22 | Scattered throughout these studies are useful indications of reading ability and reading tastes at particular moments of development . |
| 23 | My own ponies are freeze branded , still beautiful and win ribbons at National shows ( e.g. Ponies U.K. ) both in hand and ridden . |
| 24 | If Day-Lewis is the movie 's greatest strength then its most noticeable defect is that it was shot by two different cinematog-raphers , often with the same scene lit very differently as if taking place at contrasting times of day . |
| 25 | While this is certainly true for some radicals , both 4-ASA and 5-ASA scavenge hypochlorite and inhibit myeloperoxidase at low concentrations . |
| 26 | Doug Laughton , with injuries to Emosi Koloto and Mike O'Neill , toyed with the idea of moving Tony Myler into the pack and playing Davies at stand-off , but decided to keep the Welshman at centre , where he will come into direct confrontation with Meninga . |
| 27 | They also inhibit myeloperoxidase and chelate iron at low concentrations ( IC 5 20 µM and 300 µM respectively ) . |
| 28 | I mean , does she go and pick people at random ? |
| 29 | He is currently teaching Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase courses at Golden Gate University in San Francisco . |
| 30 | Massenga pulled a Mini-Uzi from inside his overall and shot Sibele at point-blank range . |