Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is whether competition policy is seeking to raise the welfare of a particular economy , or whether it should be used as an instrument to promote economic efficiency at a supranational ( or even international ) level . |
| 2 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 3 | Napoleon lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment ; he did n't know what Bluücher was doing . |
| 4 | Our next experiment tested directly whether C.C. 's visual system represents left-sided information at a preattentive stage of figure-ground segregation , but subsequently loses this information for the derived figures at an attentional stage . |
| 5 | His squadron was too small to emulate Blake 's attack on Porto Farina , but he was able to negotiate a satisfactory peace with the Dey of Tunis in February 1658 , winning the right for English warships and merchantmen to use the facilities of Porto Farina , and ransoming English captives at a favourable rate . |
| 6 | Yanto smiled ‘ Look at that ’ he mused to himself , ‘ you could have a crap and eat fresh loganberries at the same time . ’ |
| 7 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 8 | Trade associations : many industries have a central organization which may function fairly innocuously , handling public relations at the industry-wide level and organizing conventions , trade fairs , etc . |
| 9 | The only thing that has been co-ordinated has been monetary policy , because participating countries , most notably America , refused to include fiscal policies at the same time . |
| 10 | Here , oceanic crust is created from upwelling basaltic magma at the trailing edge of ’ plates ’ whose leading edge is being re-melted deep beneath . |
| 11 | It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population . |
| 12 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 13 | Unilever helped sentiment by revealing third-quarter profits at the top end of expectations . |
| 14 | We are not convinced that just because large quantities of potential secondary materials are present in the North Wales region , they can be used to meet unsustainable demand at an acceptable environmental cost . |
| 15 | We are not convinced that just because large quantities of potential secondary materials are present in the North Wales region , they can be used to meet unsustainable demand at an acceptable environmental cost . |
| 16 | You could support the scheme ( and provide free advertising at the same time ) by purchasing a chic Mark 2 tee — shirt . |
| 17 | Fifteen per cent to meet public requirements at a central level in the territory of the aforementioned Länder … |
| 18 | He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department . |
| 19 | As exorcisms go , it was infinitely preferable to hurling verbal stakes at a callow Cambridge offspinner . |
| 20 | This measures a country 's ability ( or inability ) to increase real output at a faster pace than population growth . |
| 21 | If you are wrongfully dismissed , you should therefore seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity . |
| 22 | You are likely to find qualified staff at an approved school and certainly beginner riders should try to find the best tuition they can . |
| 23 | The in wide-out close principle has particular importance at the bottom mark , since the following leg is to windward and a bad rounding can result in dirty wind at the outset . |
| 24 | The propagandist view of literature , literature as illustration , tendentiousness , are denounced on the grounds that the desire to illustrate one particular ideological viewpoint at the expense of all else , has disastrous consequences at the artistic level since such an approach is at odds with any attempt to display the inherent contradictions and complexities within a given historical situation ; indeed , the case is quite the reverse : it actually masks such contradictions . |
| 25 | Even without previous knowledge or the sight of a cover or title , people often have to process new information at the very beginning of a discourse , though this is often mediated by a kind of meaningless dummy , like ‘ there was ’ in the given slot at the beginning : Given New There was a man called Ernest Hemingway . |
| 26 | Florey 's team produced material which stopped bacterial growth at the remarkable dilution of two parts per million . |
| 27 | That was the claim made by the solicitor representing Bioplan Holdings at the two-day appeal held this week at Darlington Town Hall . |
| 28 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 29 | They had no solution to the possibility that even they might sometimes fail to find permanent employment at a living wage . |
| 30 | France should , de Choiseul hoped , be able to assemble a striking force of 22 large vessels from Brest , Ferrol , 13 miles [ 21 km ] north-east of Corunna , and Cadiz , sufficient to obtain local superiority at the decisive point , provided Spain contributed eight ships . |