Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 .
2 The observers were also especially impressed by the collective concern for those who showed signs of being unable to support themselves at the local level :
3 Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin .
4 It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence .
5 It 's very important to prove yourself at the top level because the gap between top amateurs and pros is not as wide as it was a couple of years ago , ’ he says .
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