Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can confirm that stories about meetings at the party-political level are pure invention . |
| 2 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 3 | The keynote speeches will include ‘ a high-level official from the Commission ’ , currently being finalised , along with Nobel prize winner Dr Arno Penzais , vice president of research at AT&T Bell Labs , Doug Michels of the Santa Cruz Operation , Roel Pieper of Unix System Laboratories and Charles Reilly , vice president for operations at the Open Software Foundation . |
| 4 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 5 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 6 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 7 | The preference between candidates at the same level or at neighbouring levels was weak , while that between candidates at more distant levels was strong . |
| 8 | Other policies had tended to limit equality or parity between schools at the same time . |
| 9 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 10 | Lully composed the majority of his ballets between 1654 and 1671 for performances at the French court . |
| 11 | Some hand creams care for nails at the same time . |
| 12 | Seven minutes is what it takes me at this time in the evening ; eight , sometimes nine , coming the opposite way in the morning , to allow for waits at the two pedestrian crossings and the crowds coming out of the station . |
| 13 | Moreover , combinations of factors can conspire to turn vertical effects into horizontal effects , for example the combination of vertical linkages and the necessity for licences at the retail stage ( as in the supply of beer ) . |
| 14 | Customers are being urged to demand compensation for blunders at the same rate as the charges on their accounts . |
| 15 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 16 | This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times . |
| 17 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 18 | The arrangement of molecules at the potential energy maximum is known as the ‘ activated complex ’ . |
| 19 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 20 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 21 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 22 | A smile can charm and delude us so that we accept even lies and insults — providing that they are accompanied by the expected flash of teeth at the same time ! |
| 23 | One would not try to explain the flight of birds at the molecular level , whereas that level is most appropriate if we wish to understand how muscles contract . |
| 24 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |
| 25 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 26 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 27 | Research on interests in local politics , and research on the " third world " of groups at the national level with only limited and sporadic access to government , has revealed a picture of the interest-group world starkly at odds with the rosy optimism of the pluralist perspective . |
| 28 | The formation of varices at the mucocutaneous junctions of small or large bowel stomas in patients with portal hypertension can be a source of massive or recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 29 | Krauss observes another case of mass reproduction in Manet 's ‘ assembly line ’ style of the continued overpainting of a large number of canvases at the same time . |
| 30 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |