Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 2 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 3 | The only thing that has been co-ordinated has been monetary policy , because participating countries , most notably America , refused to include fiscal policies at the same time . |
| 4 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 5 | He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department . |
| 6 | Even without previous knowledge or the sight of a cover or title , people often have to process new information at the very beginning of a discourse , though this is often mediated by a kind of meaningless dummy , like ‘ there was ’ in the given slot at the beginning : Given New There was a man called Ernest Hemingway . |
| 7 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 8 | France should , de Choiseul hoped , be able to assemble a striking force of 22 large vessels from Brest , Ferrol , 13 miles [ 21 km ] north-east of Corunna , and Cadiz , sufficient to obtain local superiority at the decisive point , provided Spain contributed eight ships . |
| 9 | Naturally , we do n't expect you to fling real arrows at the best C64 mag on the market , no no no ! |
| 10 | You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time . |
| 11 | Building societies are legally obliged to sell repossessed properties at the best possible price . |
| 12 | Thermal and bias variations tend to create equal signals at the two inputs and therefore negligible output . |
| 13 | The aim is not only to increase sales of these products , but also to encourage customers to buy other goods at the same time . |
| 14 | Additional knowledge about how words may combine to form sentences , and about how sentences are put together to produce text will also be necessary to resolve remaining ambiguity at the lexical level . |
| 15 | The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review . |
| 16 | Yet women are less likely than men to leave paid employment at the statutory retirement age ; it is estimated that in 1990 22.7 per cent of women between the ages of 60 and 64 were economically active , compared with 14.4 per cent of men aged 65–9 ( Tinder , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | By having to concede free elections at the round-table talks on Thursday night , the Communists have , in effect , accepted they will in future be only one partner in a pluralist political system . |
| 18 | Purchasers will need more advice on prescribing ; in a contract setting this will include the definition of health gain from drugs , secondary care agreement of joint treatment protocols , systems to ensure appropriate prescribing at the primary care and secondary care interface , and definition of the standards and range of pharmaceutical services . |
| 19 | This would provide a framework in which it would be possible to understand automatic processing at the tactical level . |
| 20 | The eventual outcome was not favourable to the students who had taken politics into their own hands and tried to realise democratic practices at the local level . |
| 21 | Pat and her then lover , former taxi-driver Bill Nadin ( he was her first childhood sweetheart ) used to hold great parties at the ancient tavern . |
| 22 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 23 | The introduction of noise in strategies ensures that every information set in the game is reached with a non-zero probability , this eliminates the need to describe off-the-equilibrium-path beliefs at the sequential equilibrium found below . |
| 24 | Of particular significance to our discussion in this chapter is her conclusion about the way in which technology appears to influence organisational structure at the two ends of the scale of technological complexity . |
| 25 | Although there may be a great temptation to seek alternative employment at the earliest opportunity , you should weigh up considerations such as : |
| 26 | ‘ We want our tenants to be able to offer good beers at the right price , ’ he said . |
| 27 | But it may be of interest to note , simply through the observation of some important early instruments , that different ways of playing the piano can be shown to have e– ted at the same time . |
| 28 | Our ships no longer plough the seas to seek cheap food at the cheapest price , and children no longer go to school in poor clothing . |
| 29 | According to Safa , ‘ the ideology that equates female confinement within the home to higher class status has begun to influence working-class women at the same time that its influence has begun to wane among women of the elite ’ . |
| 30 | The delay stems from Nirex 's decision to build an underground research laboratory to test geological conditions at the proposed site , Sellafield in Cumbria . |