Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The education officer will also pitch his or her talk at a suitable level for the age group concerned , something that is not always achieved by an ordinary guide . |
| 2 | Dacic , who specialises in Eastern European artists such as Braco Dimitrijevic and Georg Ettle noted with satisfaction that her audience at the fair continued to be ‘ insiders ’ , intensive collectors from Belgium , England and the Netherlands . |
| 3 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 4 | Barnett J. went on to hold that the district judge had mistakenly overlooked the reversal of the burden of proof at the second stage but that this had not vitiated his assessment of the material and arguments , nor his arrival at the correct conclusion that the prosecution had discharged the burden thus placed upon it . |
| 5 | It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise . |
| 6 | Adjust your times so that your ETA at the holding point coincides with a time based on your last acknowledged position report , and flight plan for times for each section of the route . |
| 7 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 8 | The rapid rise in tenancy in the mid-Meiji period and its maintenance at a high level thereafter may not necessarily mean a wholesale polarization of rural wealth , but a keenness on the part of those who were able to work more land to rent extra plots to take advantage of improved market opportunities . |
| 9 | The initial defects of his system , depending on the introduction of fresh air at a high level and its extraction at a low level , were corrected by Karkeek of Truro . |
| 10 | She straightened , holding the small of her back and her bulge at the same time . |
| 11 | One woman found that when different family members were all demanding different things and her attention at the same time , ‘ something blows ’ . |
| 12 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 13 | Later the same year the whole family set off for Vienna , where the children played to the Empress Maria Theresia and her consort at the beautiful Schönbrunn palace . |
| 14 | Whatever the circumstances an open and frank discussion must take place between the new employee and her manager at the earliest opportunity . |
| 15 | The aim of this book , however , is to look beneath this superstructure , and to describe computers and their variation at a basic hardware level , below the operating system but above the detailed electronics ; we discuss further the nature of this level in § 1.3 . |
| 16 | But they feel torn between their loathing for General Noriega 's drug-based regime , and their alarm at the cavalier flouting of the OAS principle of non-intervention . |
| 17 | Our partnership has never been aimed at a resourcing of the school in a material sense , but has focused on the educational experiences of students and their provision at the highest quality possible . |
| 18 | These were ‘ the integration of different segments of the labour process by a system of conveyors and handling devices ensuring the movement of the materials to be transformed and their arrival at the appropriate machine tools ’ . |
| 19 | The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level . |
| 20 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 21 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |
| 22 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 23 | He will declare that the economy has reached a ‘ turning point ’ , but latest polls show confidence in him and his Chancellor at an all-time low . |
| 24 | After Mass they talked , chatting about this and that , as they walked from Southwark across London Bridge to meet Cranston and his wife at the Golden Pig , a comfortable tavern on the city side of the river . |
| 25 | His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank . |
| 26 | The author worked alongside Maxwell for many years and his career at the Daily Mirror also ended in disgrace with his sacking , soon after the publishers death . |
| 27 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 28 | It 's a terrible thing to lose your husband and your home at the same time . |
| 29 | You could relish both the pain of the children and your grief at the same time . ’ |
| 30 | Since his tenure at the National Theatre , rigorous new works have appeared side-by-side with more accessible and lucrative ( but still highly praised ) productions of ‘ Guys and Dolls ’ and ‘ Trelawny of the Wells ’ . |