Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case became a public examination of one of the most controversial episodes at the end of the Second World War when under the Yalta agreement the British were obliged to hand over to their authorities all East European prisoners . |
| 2 | Such a portfolio may be illustrated by an inverted pyramid with the most liquid assets at the base , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 3 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 4 | Often I saw a clean-limbed beech , pale and slender , yet firm in its loftiness , that shook delicately arched branches at the top , and below held out an arm on which a form of schoolboys might have sat , — rising out of fine grass and printing its perfect outlines on the sky , — and I could fancy it enjoyed a life of pleasure that was health , beauty that was strength , thought that was repose . |
| 5 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 6 | To enhance Wal-Mart 's folksy , small-town image , Walton placed little old ladies at the door of each store , to act as official greeters . |
| 7 | So if an employer operates a policy of compulsorily retiring workers at the state pension age , that will be unlawful sex discrimination until the stage pension age is equalised . |
| 8 | A fact which I regard as crucial to the decision of these appeals is stated by the special commissioner [ 1990 ] S.T.C. 6 , 11F–G , as follows : ‘ on the facts , the taxpayers ' sons occupied only surplus places at the college and their right to do so was entirely discretionary . ’ |
| 9 | Somewhat similar proposals at the time of the Revolution of 1688 , for subjecting the Chancery to the control of the Common Law Courts , were rejected . |
| 10 | SO SAD Tears at the end of an official visit |
| 11 | The Flemish cities , Laon , and Toulouse were all commercial centres of more than local importance before they launched their campaigns for privileges ; and if their leaders were not highly educated men at the beginning of the century — it has been suggested that the reason why weaving was concentrated in towns in Flanders was that illiterate merchants could not keep the complicated records necessary for a scattered cottage industry — then they rapidly acquired learning along with their corporate awareness in the course of the century . |
| 12 | There are areas of contention — I ca n't really think of any at the moment — but I 'll tell you I am in extremely good books at the moment , because I cooked Christmas lunch . |
| 13 | If in doubt , use the ‘ central row of diamonds ’ version , so that there are only horizontal lines at the side seams to be matched when sewing-up . |
| 14 | It had to do something , because uncertainty had to be brought to an end ; but only enlightened bureaucrats at the centre could cut through the diversity of opinion in the provinces . |
| 15 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 16 | between £500 and £1,000 Thus official incomes at the top of the ladder exceeded those of the average peer ; and on the middle rungs they equalled those of the upper gentry . |
| 17 | They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course . |
| 18 | For the contrast colour , simply use a dark green throughout , or use several shades of green from your ‘ oddments ’ , using the darkest shades at the bottom of the design , grading to lighter , more subtle shades at the top . |
| 19 | This is probably because the youngest and fittest miners are involved in the more strenuous tasks at the coal face , while the older and less fit do other underground work or gain surface employment . |
| 20 | As Hood ( 1979 , p. 20 ) points out , government agencies are increasingly operating ‘ in multiple and dense networks of cross-cutting territorial , functional and hierarchical relationships , and within an overall context of … government by grants and by indirect administration rather than by the older pattern of directly hired bureaucrats at the centre ’ . |
| 21 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 22 | Alternatively , store credit cards may offer more expensive credit — but buying a really cheap offer in a sale may justify use of more costly loans at the time . |
| 23 | Alternatively , store credit cards may offer more expensive credit — but buying a really cheap offer in a sale may justify use of more costly loans at the time . |
| 24 | The principles that we want are no discrimination , a closer approach to the market , consideration of more environmental matters at the centre of the European Community and a sensible CAP that is designed to support efficient farmers and the proper backing of the rural economy . |
| 25 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 26 | There are more beautiful gardens at the Villa Cimbrone , which offer superb panoramas of the rugged coast . |
| 27 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 28 | Asking questions is one of the most powerful tools at the teacher 's disposal for establishing the nature and extent of a child 's understanding ; providing feedback is a necessary way of registering whether the understanding is correct or complete . |
| 29 | We could start with a review of his most famous chapters at the beginning of The State of the Prisons , especially the chapters entitled : ‘ General view of distress in prisons ’ ; ‘ Bad customs in prisons ’ ; ‘ Proposed improvements in the structure and management of prisons ’ . |
| 30 | It was because of this , along with the commonplaces of fashionable racial theory , that most educated Russians at the beginning of the twentieth century were convinced that practically all the smaller peoples of Siberia were irrevocably doomed to extinction . |