Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dear , he 's no manners at all ! ’ |
| 2 | He was totally obsessed with that dreadful little boy Grégoire — he even brought him to tea here , you know , and the child had no manners at all , he broke one of the Sèvres cups — Edouard said he was nervous … |
| 3 | He 'll think we have no manners at all . ’ |
| 4 | Some people got no manners at all … ’ |
| 5 | Police probe pub break-ins POLICE are investigating break-ins at two pubs in the Hartlepool area , when gaming machines were raided . |
| 6 | It is a pathetic and lamentable contrast to the vital contribution made by the arts at previous Expos in , for example , Paris in 1900 and 1937 , or Montreal in 1967 . |
| 7 | I would say that the CNAA was responsible for establishing the arts in higher education , first as subjects valid for higher education , and second as subjects valuable to the country , in other words it helped to establish a national reputation for the arts at this level , which had never existed before . |
| 8 | The attention focusing interpretation of Studies 2 and 3 assumed that risks at dangerous junctions provide better recognition cues than those at safer junction . |
| 9 | This could be because risks at dangerous junctions tend to be multiple and often specific to individual films while risks at safer junctions are often single and common to many exemplars . |
| 10 | This could be because risks at dangerous junctions tend to be multiple and often specific to individual films while risks at safer junctions are often single and common to many exemplars . |
| 11 | There was no point in taking risks at this stage . |
| 12 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 13 | Notes Sheep farms are not recommended for visits by pregnant ladies , due to health risks at lambing times . |
| 14 | Obviously you will find it easier to multiply the ingredients and make several daily servings at one time . |
| 15 | But the really pertinent question is why are we engaging in gradualistic , incremental tactics , or indeed any tactics at all ? |
| 16 | But what if they were n't tactics at all ? |
| 17 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 18 | Mother , in other words , is thought to be always the same mother , parental influences are regarded as invariable throughout childhood , and an assessment of the parents ' psychological characteristics at one point is thought sufficient to typecast them for good . |
| 19 | ( 4.4 ) , of 100 Hz can be expected to have dips in the torque/speed characteristics at 100 , 50 , 33 , 25 , 20 , … steps per second . |
| 20 | It seems certain that the blend of characteristics at Great Witcombe is attributable to a mosaicist who had worked on the St. Nicholas Street mosaic . |
| 21 | As a result , the Population Census is not just the best , but in practice the only , source of reliable data on a reasonably wide range of demographic and socio-economic characteristics at sub-regional scale . |
| 22 | But in some capitalist societies the working class seems to have no distinct political organisation or ideology , and so appears to lack any defining characteristics at these levels . |
| 23 | Stands at nearest point to him . |
| 24 | The fatality incidence rates per 100,000 stands at 11.5 compared with 4.2 for self-employed construction workers . |
| 25 | She started taking stands at antique fairs in Kent , and at weekends or during school holidays the whole family plus dogs would go on expeditions to Wales , the West Country and East Anglia . |
| 26 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 27 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 28 | It was the first time that the government had simultaneously formulated a 10-year programme and a five-year plan [ see p. 37917 for adoption of plan and programme guidelines at seventh CCP plenum held in December 1990 ; see p. 38097 for report on seventh five-year plan ] . |
| 29 | She felt sure that plans must have been well advanced for the action they intended to take , and she thought that councillors should have been asked to approve the use of emergency guidelines at that time . |
| 30 | Guidelines that are too vague are not guidelines at all . |