Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that the sound is recorded as a separate linear edge-track which runs at the slow forward speed of the tape , and the speed affects the audio quality to some extent . |
| 3 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
| 4 | Despite the title , the only scene which hints at the metabolic urgency of drug use comes when Leigh drives zonked-out through a lit-up industrial landscape . |
| 5 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 6 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 7 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 8 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
| 9 | Erm it , and as they sa , and as she says this tends to be er a description of a gypsy camps campsite which looks at the external surroundings of the caravans , but it does n't actually look inside the caravan . |
| 10 | Mr Beavers , 37 , a married man with two children , won a bravery award for the rescue but is suffering from viral fatigue syndrome which strikes at the nervous system and brain . |
| 11 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
| 12 | If , for instance , he drops a ball it accelerates at the same rate as the capsule and will remain at rest relative to the capsule , whatever their shared acceleration . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 14 | This is because more recently reconnected field lines are always closer to the open/closed field line boundary which lies at the equatorward edge of the cusp . |
| 15 | The first publication will be the catalogue of an exhibition of paintings from the Bowes Museum in Country Durham which opens at the National Gallery on 28 April . |
| 16 | Airlife have produced a revised edition of the Microlight Flying Manual , that seminal tome by Ron Campbell and John Jones which looks at the aeronautical world strictly from the perspective of pilots who are aiming at a Group D licence . |
| 17 | one thinks of bread , cheese , butter , tea and coffee from City firms ; car loads of books from Roseburn ; a pressure cooker from a member moved by the despairing note in one of our appeals ; a whole set of Carlyles 's works , which was eventually sold to the new Carlyle library in Haddington ; fascinating nautical ephemera from the Manse ; a huge pile of oil paintings of Edinburgh from a young artist who works at the National Gallery ; even geological specimens and polished stones from a lady in our Abbeyfield House ; and of course our ‘ stock in trade ’ , those exciting grocer 's boxes of ‘ mixed ’ books . |
| 18 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 19 | And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right . |
| 20 | Local bus is a technology whereby certain peripheral cards , such as video or IDE host cards , can have their own private bus which runs at the same speed as the processor , thus enhancing overall system throughput . |
| 21 | Already , the show which arrives at the Royal Court on June 24 , has gone down very well at Universities . |
| 22 | If the employment contract is not renewed at the end of the 2 year period benefit should not be paid as the policy wordings exclude ‘ unemployment which arises at the normal termination date of a fixed term contract ’ . |
| 23 | Everton can also point to a strong international element in Leena Chagla , an Indian doctor who works at the Royal and keeps goal for them , as well as two German girls , Sylke Klaus and Gabi Von Voight . |
| 24 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 25 | The passages , with their oak panelling and thick woollen carpets are dark and gloomy ; so is the Jacobean staircase which divides at the upper level , making it easy to lose one 's way . |
| 26 | I remember , several weeks after my successful interview , discussing my impending change of job at a party with a neighbour who works at the local university . |
| 27 | It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed . |
| 28 | It follows that the angle a vertical edge subtends at the left eye divided by the angle it subtends at the right eye is greater than 1 for the left-hand edge of the pattern , but is less than 1 for the right-hand edge . |
| 29 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 30 | ‘ ... there is a resistance to identity which lies at the very heart of psychic life . ’ |