Example sentences of "[vb pp] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 2 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 3 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 4 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 5 | He was educated at an orphanage in Blackheath . |
| 6 | Two further introns were included in our comparisons : the second LSUrRNA intron from P.wickerhamii , which resembles Pw ri1 in sequence and secondary structure , and ri2 from Scenedesmus obliquus mitochondria , which is located at an identical position as ri2 from P.wickerhamii ( 21 ) . |
| 7 | Press accounts of the IAEA 's report based on the preliminary findings of its sixth inspection team [ see p. 38451 ] indicated that there was conclusive proof of an extensive Iraqi nuclear weapons programme , the hub of which was located at an installation in Al Atheer , about 60 km south of Baghdad . |
| 8 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 9 | Rollers were wound at an angle , spiralling hair around the curlers to give a firm pincurled result . |
| 10 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 11 | On March 24 a soldier was shot and seriously wounded at an otherwise peaceful demonstration by Islamic students in Makulla , east of Aden , and two days later counter-demonstrations were organized in the town , attended by several thousand people . |
| 12 | Seconds later , they were installed at an umbrella-shaded table with the little boy sitting in state alongside . |
| 13 | Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost . |
| 14 | Working on irregular square sections , hair was then lifted at an angle from the head for maximum lift . |
| 15 | The Kazakh Communist Party voted at an emergency congress on Sept. 8 to withdraw from the CPSU and become the independent Socialist Party of Kazakhstan ( SPK ) . |
| 16 | Samples for footprinting were prepared by mixing 9µl of radiolabelled DNA ( about 50pmol base pairs ) with 9µl of actinomycin , dissolved at an appropriate concentration ( typically 40µM ) in 10mM Tris-HCl pH8.0 containing 10mM NaCl . |
| 17 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 18 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 19 | The 100 kg of nitrogen-methane and ammonium nitrate was detonated at an altitude of 300 km , just poleward of an auroral arc . |
| 20 | In order to avoid this obviously ridiculous result , the German scientist Max Planck suggested in 1900 that light , X rays , and other waves could not be emitted at an arbitrary rate , but only in certain packets that he called quanta . |
| 21 | This was essentially a room for transacting business , though if Fournier 's picture is reliable , the Emperor seems to have sat at an inconvenient height at his desk in a small chair , covered in green plush , so low that once seated in it , writing must have been difficult . |
| 22 | If the matter really can not be resolved at an informal level , then it should be formally communicated in writing to the person in charge of the activity . |
| 23 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 24 | I 've never looked at an elephant 's eyelashes before . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he continued , giving his grandmother a look of clearly mingled liking and exasperation , ‘ my grandmother has n't looked at an employment application in five years . |
| 26 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 27 | So , even if the car is parked at an angle where the mercury switch is continuously closed , the timer will be allowed to operate providing the vehicle remains stationary . |
| 28 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |
| 29 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |
| 30 | Proposals from the Professional Footballers Association that former players should be promoted more quickly will be considered at an FA referees ' committee meeting on December 19 . |