Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young man he found ungainful but instructive employment as assistant private secretary at the Colonial Office ( 1892–5 ) . |
| 2 | The main targets were as follows : ( i ) to increase gross national product ( GNP ) at an average annual growth rate of about 6 per cent ; ( ii ) to increase the total output value of industry and agriculture at an average annual rate of 6.1 per cent ; ( iii ) to increase total agricultural output at an average annual rate of 3.5 per cent , with grain output reaching 500,000,000 tonnes and cotton 5,250,000 tonnes by 2000 ; ( iv ) to increase total industrial output at an average annual rate of 6.8 per cent , with the output of raw coal reaching 1,400 million tonnes , electricity 1,100 million kWh , steel 80,000,000 tonnes , chemical fertilizer 120,000,000 tonnes and rail freight 1,900 million tonnes ; ( v ) to ensure that 40 per cent of major products in the machine-building and light industry sector reached or approached relatively advanced international standards ; ( vi ) to raise the proportion of the tertiary sector in the GNP from the current 25 per cent to around 33 per cent ; and ( vii ) to control the average annual population growth rate at below 12.5 per thousand . |
| 3 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
| 4 | Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy . |
| 5 | He was sentimental and politically naïve , and the outstanding British boxer at the heavier weights in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |
| 7 | In 1793 , in a more striking case , a boy of seventeen was left at the beginning of the struggle with the French revolution as the sole British representative at the military headquarters of the king of Prussia . |
| 8 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 9 | A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded . |
| 10 | For the purpose of wage assessment in rural areas , women are bracketed with minors and the partially handicapped , demonstrating a clear cultural prejudice at an official level . |
| 11 | More significant for Scandinavia was its retreat in 1950 back to limited and relatively non-controversial sectoral coordination at the regional level . |
| 12 | A further three were to be built at the old carding mill at a gross rental of £10 per annum . |
| 13 | But it would not do to show any emotion before the giants , who had all gathered to see Floy and Snodgrass off , or before Balor , who was waiting in high good humour at the unexpected excitement of a journey to the Fire Court . |
| 14 | Just a few hours before this programme went to press we spotted a tremendously exciting traditional band at the Lorient Interceltic Festival in Brittany and invited them to join us tonight . |
| 15 | Again this has a clear geographical expression at the broad regional level . |
| 16 | This week she was considering a six-month temporary tenancy at the Grey Horse , Haughton Village , offered by Grand Met . |
| 17 | Replace old foam-filled furniture at the earliest opportunity with furniture labelled to indicate that its covers and filling meet the requirements of the 1988 Furniture and Furnishings ( Fire ) ( Safety ) Regulations . |
| 18 | One Latin American director at the latest London Film Festival was desperately seeking ways of writing yet another French actor into his latest script : ‘ It 's a burden trying to be universal , ’ he groaned . |
| 19 | The following year a Latin American delegate at the Tenth plenum of the Committee of the Communist International stated bluntly that Latin American Communist parties needed ’ stronger organisational and more effective political support' from the Comintern ( Alba : 1959 , p. 136 ) . |
| 20 | First , he threw the worship of Stalin overboard in his celebrated secret speech at the twentieth Party Congress in 1956 . |
| 21 | It will mean more doubtful inward investment at the very moment when this country needs such investment most , as we come out of the recession . |
| 22 | On the German side I interviewed Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg , the Bismarck 's fourth gunnery officer and senior surviving officer , a former assistant naval attaché at the German Embassy in London without whose fluent and colloquial English it would have been impossible to give the film the necessary balance . |
| 23 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 24 | Sergio Benedetti , the Florentine chief restorer at the National Gallery in Dublin , has identified a ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ high on the walls of an Irish religious college as the missing original version ( of some ten or so known ) of ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ by Caravaggio . |
| 25 | One year on from its declaration of independence from the CPSU [ see pp. 37128-29 ] , the Lithuanian Communist Party ( LCP ) reorganized itself as the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party at an extraordinary congress on Dec. 8-9 . |
| 26 | A disputed paragraph regarding representation in the Soviet of the Republics was passed with the required two-thirds majority at the fourth vote , after a minor adjustment . |
| 27 | Therefore , although the service sector may be the mainstay of rural employment , it has a very uneven spatial distribution at the local level . |
| 28 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 29 | Engineers should therefore seek appropriate professional advice at an early stage if they have doubts about the application of the law or regulations in a particular situation . |
| 30 | On Dec. 1 , 1989 , it was agreed that athletes for a joint Korean team at the 11th Asian Games ( to be held in Beijing , China , in 1990 — see p. 37041 ) would be selected and trained in open competition and that each side would bear half of the costs . |