Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 2 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 3 | When you need to speak to your stringer — at your club or at the local shop — tell them what kind of player you are ( a baseline slugger or a serve and volleyer ) and if you want more power or more accuracy from the racket . |
| 4 | As a result there was no informed discussion within the department or at the Social Services Committee about resource issues and the status of the recommendations remained vague . |
| 5 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 6 | Secondly , he is a member of the Irish Bank Officials ' Association and at the Special Delegate Conference , in the Mansion House , Dublin on 13th March , a Resolution was passed calling on all members to support Frank Holden in his quest for justice . |
| 7 | I looked at the line-up listed in the programme and at the stop-press late additions : Everything But The Girl , two of The Communards ; Harry Enfield ; The Oblivion Boys , the list went on . |
| 8 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 9 | We 've got a number of motions on the agenda asking for the C E C to look carefully at the cost of training at the National College and at the regional education courses . |
| 10 | The content of the Coleman course is shown by near-verbatim notes taken at different times by students , and preserved in the College and at the Royal College . |
| 11 | As you will be aware from previous correspondence , the third series of level two coach education courses are being staged presently at the Scottish School of PE , Jordanhill College and at the Scottish Centre for Physical Education , Movement and Leisure Studies at Moray House College . |
| 12 | He stared at the low wooden fence and the pure sward of snow yellowed by the lights , and at the low wire fence and at the high wire fence and at the high wooden fence . |
| 13 | He stared at the low wooden fence and the pure sward of snow yellowed by the lights , and at the low wire fence and at the high wire fence and at the high wooden fence . |
| 14 | Looking back on it he was amazed both at his boldness and at the seeming inevitability and naturalness of that first encounter . |
| 15 | Thatched cottages cluster round the harbour while at the other end of the wide sandy beach Somerwest World offers a complete range of entertainment to holidaymakers and day visitors . |
| 16 | The end of the dock when at the upper part of its inclined railway makes a practically water-tight joint with the standing work at the extremity of what may be termed the head bay or pond of which the dock then forms a continuation , there being also a gate or gates at the end of the bay to retain the water when the dock is absent . |
| 17 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 18 | Hope nodded his appreciation as at the perfect execution of an ambitious manoeuvre : it was indeed a favoured spot . |
| 19 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 20 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 21 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 22 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 23 | Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen . |
| 24 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 25 | The sums increased , and funding was provided for a choreography department at the London School of Contemporary Dance and at the Royal Ballet School . |
| 26 | Although he was occasionally called out of retirement to represent English interests at the curia and at the French court , his main interests were now religious . |
| 27 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 28 | The Pest Control industry suffered as the recession really took hold and at the British Pest Control Association there was a great wailing and a gnashing of teeth . |
| 29 | It requires the setting up of a chain of correlated consequences linking at one end the position of the microscopic electron and at the other end the registration of the result of that particular measurement . |
| 30 | Therefore , a thorough analysis of the regulation of H1 transcription , both at the basal level and at the enhanced stage , would be of major interest for the understanding of the control mechanisms of gene expression at the transcriptional level . |