Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community .
2 These are not things much taught at the 14th-century Sorbonne .
3 The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority .
4 They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent .
5 Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council .
6 There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun .
7 To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote .
8 Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I.
9 Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined .
10 But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase , perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot .
11 Miguel finished tuning the guitar and turned to look at her , obviously perturbed at the sudden anger in her voice .
12 erm there was a time , for instance , when we had members of parliament who were gentlemen of means , perhaps , and who did not need to draw salaries , erm and it was erm perhaps a gentleman amateur job , but it 's all changed totally now and now we recognise that erm to be a national politician is a career and erm it is a career which is perhaps rewarded at the going rate .
13 The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs .
14 While the glucose dependent insulin release was reduced by treatment with 5 and 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A for eight days , the cholecystokinin-8 stimulated amylase secretion was only impaired at the higher dose of 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A. Insulin promotes the synthesis of amylase by a direct effect on exocrine pancreatic cells via the insuloacinar axis .
15 Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level .
16 How awfully dull it would be if all our teachers approached a class in exactly the same way , with exactly the same movements , all executed at the same pace and with expectations of the same rigid standard of achievement .
17 As far as the hunger and satiety sensations ( Table ) were concerned , a significant difference was only observed at the sixth hour with hunger being significantly more marked under placebo than under psyllium ( 73 ( 6 ) v 54 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) and satiety more prolonged under psyllium than under placebo ( 44 ( 7 ) v 21 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) .
18 Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War .
19 Thus was a sense of community fostered between neighbouring towns and villages , the impact of the disco being stubbornly resisted at the same time .
20 At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics .
21 The brn-1 and brn-2 POU domain RNAs are highly expressed at the neural tube stage during forebrain development and are widely present in the adult brain .
22 Police have said the men were not necessarily killed at the same time .
23 Significantly no places within 10 miles of London were contacted about the convention and a delegation from the old Anti-Slavery Society was only suggested at the last moment .
24 The group also organised more seminars last year , all held at the Chartered Institute of Transport , free to TSUG members , and covering a wide range of topics .
25 Briant put his hand in his inside jacket pocket and pulled out the folded sheet of paper that carried his statement , and , a little startled at the sudden wave of apprehension that swept over him , he stood up .
26 The functions of government were nominally divided between the centre and the republics , but all-union ministries , based exclusively in Moscow , produced 57 per cent of industrial output , union-republican ministries based partly in Moscow produced a further 37 per cent , and only 6 per cent of industry was wholly regulated at the republican level .
27 Marriage was introduced by an endearing Charlie Drake-ish master of ceremonies whose slapstick humour little hinted at the Ortonesque parody that followed as , to an adapted version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 's An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise , Keith McIntyre assembled a three-dimensional Brechtian black and white tableau .
28 Rather unexpectedly , the lighthouse is not situated at the far extremity of the headland , the Point of Stoer , but two miles short on the west side .
29 TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday .
30 Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time .
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