Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " So much for European harmonisation at all levels , " says Neil MacFarlane , Sports Minister from 1981 to 1985 , Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam and a Vice-President of the P.G.A . |
| 2 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 3 | Coincidentally , I had a very busy schedule as Foreign Secretary at that time . |
| 4 | He seldom lost his temper , but that day he was cross , rightly so , for fresh greenstuff at that time of the year is priceless . |
| 5 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 6 | He was trying to persuade Dutch leader Ruud Lubbers to help restart stalled moves towards European Union at this Friday 's Edinburgh summit . |
| 7 | Why is it not in a state of complete disorder at all times ? |
| 8 | It hardly seems accidental that the extremely imprecise and tentative nature of his proposals allowed the maximum scope for the exercise of political judgement at all levels of the administrative system . |
| 9 | Careful analysis of these lists , however , suggests that party allegiance was the most crucial determinant of political identity at this time . |
| 10 | Of course , the financing of such an increase in government spending by the sale of an equivalent quantity of government bonds will tend to raise interest rates and thus choke off some private expenditure , but unless the interest elasticity of private expenditure is very high , or the interest elasticity of the demand for money very low , the net effect of an increase in government spending will be significantly to raise the equilibrium level of aggregate demand at any price level . |
| 11 | Instead of giving a clear internal height of 6.9 ( 22–1/2ft ) ( extending up into the apex of the roof space ) , headroom beneath these two trusses was reduced to 4.4m ( 14ft ) at the junction of their curved braces with the tie-beams , thus denying the opportunity to install two storeys of habitable accommodation at these points . |
| 12 | As befits the objects of homosexual desire at that time , this new generation of teenybop pop stars were ‘ boy slaves ’ — more Limply Leslie than Rape Hunger — and failed to emerge from the pin-up process with their masculinity intact . |
| 13 | Greater concern for the government was provoked on the left of German politics at this time . |
| 14 | Following the collapse of the Roman economy , we can distinguish the re-emergence of commercial activity at these emporia , which were close to royal centres , connected to areas of production and consumption abroad , and based largely on luxury goods like gold , silver , jewels , furs and wine . |
| 15 | NAFTA has been strongly criticized by environmentalists on the grounds that it will lead to " dirty " US industries moving into Mexico to take advantage of that country 's more relaxed environmental standards , and that other environmental considerations for all three countries will be sacrificed for the principle of free trade at any cost . |
| 16 | In the latter case , will , in general , not be equivalent to for any other morpheme in the sentence ; ( 17 ) , in the following newspaper headline : ( 17 ) Laos threatens to attack new village the referential locus of new is the E of an implied nominal attack which does not in fact appear ; it will in fact only be co-incidence if Ar is identical with the E of a morpheme expressed elsewhere in the same structure , as in ( 18 ) , the title of an English madrigal : ( 18 ) as I go to my naked bed ( We return to the notion of referential locus at several points in the remainder of our text . ) |
| 17 | Mrs Shephard said that helping people out of work to find jobs was her priority but ‘ throwing huge sums of public money at this problem is not an option for us ’ . |
| 18 | The questions provoked by the Wolfenden approach were not new ones ( John Stuart Mill and James Fitzjames Stephens had both discussed such issues ) but they were particularly topical at this point , for questions of law and morality were at the forefront of public consciousness at this time because of , for example , the Wildeblood/Pitt-Rivers case . |
| 19 | In the interval he had travelled to the extreme Left wing of English politics at that time , and swung back again to the Right with vigour and determination . |
| 20 | Mr Kwame Afo , a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa , one of the nationalist groups prominent in the campaign for reparations , estimated the costs to the US Government of proper reparation at some $4.1 trillion — close to a full year of the US gross national product . |
| 21 | The restructuring school argued that to understand what was happening to the geography of British manufacturing at this time it was necessary to analyse this situation . |
| 22 | Brunel was a serious casualty of the sluggishness of British production at this period . |
| 23 | Since the Finance Act of 1961 , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the power ( via ‘ the regulator ’ ) to vary the rates of indirect taxation at any time between Budgets . |
| 24 | However , the finding that school leaving qualifications are associated with disease severity highlights the importance of ill health at this age and suggests the need for flexibility in the education of those who suffer health problems during study for examinations . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
| 26 | That should ensure her safety , since the disc jockey inevitably stuck to the same pattern of fast music at this stage of the evening , keeping the slow , romantic records for the end of the night . |
| 27 | The establishing of national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and of regional assemblies in England could serve to stimulate a feeling of national identity at these levels , but this would still leave something of a lacuna at the United Kingdom level . |
| 28 | The Legal Aid Act 1988 as amended by the Legal Aid Act 1988 ( Children Act 1989 ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1924 ) provides a uniform scheme for the grant of legal aid at all levels within the court system . |
| 29 | We would strongly support the introduction of the principles of equal opportunity at all levels of appointments including shortlisting . |
| 30 | You can then use this to ensure that on each wall your tiles will be centred accurately on major features such as window reveals , with a border of cut tiles of equal width at each side . |