Example sentences of "['s] [noun] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARENTS got down to their children 's level at an open evening held at Alton County Infants School last week . |
| 2 | The Confederation of British Industry has put the cost of congestion on Britain 's roads at an annual figure of £15 billion . |
| 3 | But Fashanu is desperate to play on the big stage and with Wimbledon 's crowds at an all-time low , they may be forced to part with their biggest star . |
| 4 | Obvious examples are travelling or living abroad , the husband having to be away for long periods , having to relocate , changing children 's schools at an awkward stage in their career , having to do a lot of company entertaining . |
| 5 | The problem is , the competition 's become so fierce , it 's pushing up newspaper 's costs at an alarming rate . |
| 6 | Secondly , the suppression may conceivably have safeguarded somebody 's rights at an unknown future date — but only at the expense of an immediate disservice to other interested parties . |
| 7 | Pretty girls moved through McIllvanney 's life at an astonishing rate , though the last , who had endured a record six months , had left just a few weeks before . |
| 8 | Britain 's only significant initiative was to guarantee Luxembourg 's neutrality at an international conference held in London under Stanley 's chairmanship in 1867 . |
| 9 | Edward 's affair and subsequent marriage to divorced Mrs Simpson had left the family 's popularity at an all-time low . |
| 10 | While obvious omissions and errors led to a large number of entrants ' disqualification at an early stage , the judges found that , on the whole , standards of compliance with best practice had improved . |
| 11 | They agreed with the Electrical Contractors ' Association at an early stage that they would operate on ‘ fair and unsubsidised ’ commercial lines . |
| 12 | The legal advisers to the managers should agree with the investors ' lawyers at an early stage exactly what is required to satisfy the conditions . |
| 13 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 14 | The principles of logarithms were discovered in the seventeenth century ; they gave a tremendous technical spur to navigation , astronomy and to the growing commercial sector , facilitating tedious calculations , like nineteen months ' interest at an annual rate of 2.79 per cent . |