Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after knowing what our target is can we go on and set a transfer price that encourages each division to operate at the required volume . |
| 2 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 3 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 4 | In agreement with the strong protection observed at the central guanine residue , DNase I footprinting analysis of the same fragment reveals that digestion at the corresponding phosphodiester bond is severely impaired by the bound protein ( Figure 1C , left panel ) . |
| 5 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 6 | The UK experience since 1979 does not provide convincing evidence in support of the thesis that monetary policies determined at the national level and with disregard for policies in the country 's main economic partners can yield significant benefits . |
| 7 | Despite these difficulties , regional activities remained at a high level . |
| 8 | Their primary concern was the possibility that the decline of American influence in Southeast Asia could still precipitate an American-sponsored military pact of ASEAN states directed at the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 10 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 11 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 12 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 13 | The Labour dissidents failed at a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party , by 112 votes to 46 , to commit Labour to oppose an independent bank during the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 14 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 15 | The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle . |
| 16 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 17 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 18 | The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog , Fimbra , may well fail to materialise . |
| 19 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 20 | Thus those with good ideas would still keep credit for having them , and researchers would benefit from a source of interesting proposals generated at the front line . |
| 21 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 22 | I also found certain sections of the press grossly biased ; and when a representative of the Daily Express called at the New English Weekly office and asked for a copy of the relevant issue , I thought I might be involved in a libel action . |
| 23 | In the special election to complete Heinz 's term , his platform had emphasized the need to switch from social programmes aimed at the poor to programmes offering something to average non-affluent US citizens , especially on health care ; to cut middle class taxes ; to boost unemployment benefits ; and to protect jobs from low-wage Mexico 's competition ( a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation ) . |
| 24 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 25 | Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home . |
| 26 | In the distance , ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace , the wheels spinning around . |
| 27 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
| 28 | This chapter looks at the limited right of challenge to the validity of an expert 's decision , and explains : ( 1 ) that it is the parties to a contract who get involved in various kinds of court proceedings where the validity of the decision is challenged , and not the expert ( 13.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the grounds for challenge ( 13.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the earlier history of the law of mistake in expert determination ( 13.4 ) ; ( 4 ) more recent developments ( 13.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the current position ( 13.6 ) ; ( 6 ) speaking and non-speaking decisions ( 13.7 ) ; ( 7 ) points of law ( 13.8 ) ; ( 8 ) construction of documents ( 13.9 ) ; ( 9 ) various other aspects of mistake ( 13.10 – 13.13 ) ; and ( 10 ) the future of the doctrine ( 13.14 ) . |
| 29 | This chapter looks at the existing pattern of UK taxation and the changes that have taken place in recent years . |
| 30 | This chapter looks at the three major categories of organisation in the light of those considerations likely to prove most significant for surveyors : management authority of the participants , the raising and use of finance , the administrative burdens which will be created , the conduct of relations with outsiders and the settlement of disputes . |