Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cash and Co stand at the very heart of country 's embrace of the western myth of rugged individualism . |
| 2 | By briefly touching the metal tip on a germanium crystal , moving the tip to another part of the crystal and then applying a large voltage , they placed a single germanium atom at the new spot . |
| 3 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 4 | Make friends with your accounts department at the first opportunity . |
| 5 | The comparison can be made visually in Figure 1.2 , which allocates equal space on the page to each constituency , Figure 1.2A for unemployment , and in Figure 1.2B for the 1987 election result at the same time . |
| 6 | He was educated at Ratoath National School , county Meath , and trained as a teaching monitor at the Central Model Schools of the Board of National Education , Marlborough Street , Dublin . |
| 7 | Well , if one looks at the Sussex coast at the present day , most of the Sussex coast is protected in some way from the action of the sea , either by a sea wall , or by a groined beach . |
| 8 | Applications in form of a full CV with names and addresses of two referees should be sent to the Personnel Department at the above address . |
| 9 | Nicky had ( and for all I know still has ) the reputation of being the best criminal defence lawyer at the Scottish bar and had on several occasions persuaded juries to acquit those whom he had every reason to believe were guilty . |
| 10 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 11 | Prompts and options are on a ‘ loop ’ : eg tapping the ( Right ) direction key at the last prompt takes the cursor back to the first . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |
| 13 | Murwa , formerly deputy defence adviser at the Nigerian embassy in Washington , replaced Col. Mohammed Maina . |
| 14 | She remembered that Bridget had put a couple of bottles of white in the freezer compartment at the last minute . |
| 15 | This time he was putting his heart into playing an angel in a Nativity play at the local church . |
| 16 | The walk starts at the car park at the eastern end of Loch Affric from where you drop down the track to the bridge over the river flowing out of the loch . |
| 17 | Some members of the jury wept as they returned their murder verdict at the Old Bailey in March 1988 . |
| 18 | ‘ Concurrent validity ’ ( C3 ) is the agreement between the test scores and some criterion measure at the same point in time , while ‘ predictive validity ’ ( P ) refers to the agreement between test scores and some criterion measure obtained sometime later . |
| 19 | For the latest in organic gardening join the Henry Doubleday Research Association at the National Centre for Organic Gardening , Ryton-on-Dunsmore , Coventry , CV8 3LG . |
| 20 | He is happy to receive fan mail at the following address : . |
| 21 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 22 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 23 | These two delightful little resorts are spread round a picturesque old fishing harbour at the southern end of Lake Garda . |
| 24 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 25 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
| 26 | At censuses before the Second World War , men outnumbered women in the paid workforce by more than two to one , by the mid-1980s the ratio approaches even numbers with women accounting for 40 per cent of the labour force at the 1981 census and , in 1987 , 45 per cent of employees in employment . |
| 27 | Even when the soil is virtually dry , spadefoot toads can remain underground for prolonged periods by maintaining their blood concentration at the correct level . |
| 28 | The immense task of gathering , analysing and confirming allegations of human rights violations from around the world falls to the Research Department at the International Secretariat , Amnesty 's headquarters in London . |
| 29 | The Chunky fish and pasta soup will be demonstrated on the British Gas stand in the mail hall at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition from March 14 — April 7 . |
| 30 | He wrote love-letters for his less literate friends , as did William Lovett growing up in a fishing village at the other end of England . |