Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is substantially more information both general and related to risks at the risky junctions than at the less risky ones . |
| 2 | Place your forefinger on the body ridge under the eyes at the inner corners and repeat the pressing movements , a little more lightly this time , until you reach the outer corner . |
| 3 | For example , the factory at Montpellier manufactured all the computers at the top range and these were delivered to every country in Europe , the Middle East and Africa . |
| 4 | They had rowdy parties at the Black Bull and sang dubious songs . |
| 5 | ‘ One year ’ — Māilo 's eyes lit up at the memory — ‘ I sold so many musk pods at the Indian border that I could hardly walk back , my pockets were so weighted down with silver coins . ’ |
| 6 | The little rodents make brave , taunting rushes at the deadly reptiles and sometimes even risk delivering a lightning bite to their bodies . |
| 7 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 8 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 9 | His emissary , Menshikov , spent two and a half months at the Turkish capital and succeeded in reversing the Turks ' decision on the Holy Places . |
| 10 | Imagine that Smith obtains a score of 20 correct responses at the left ear and 30 correct at the right ear . |
| 11 | If/ones obtains 30 correct responses at the left ear and 40 correct at the right ear then his absolute difference score is also lo . |
| 12 | Aboriginal sacred sites appear to conform to this principle ; each tribe being responsible for its own section of line , visiting the sites at the appropriate season and performing traditional rituals and chants . |
| 13 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 14 | The first R/3 pilot site in the UK is a subsidiary of German natural detergents company , Henkel Chemicals AG , which will run R/3 on a Hewlett-Packard 890/200 database server accessed by X-terminals at the front end and serving 250 users . |
| 15 | By the time the debt crisis hit in 1982 , it was already clear that solidarity among the delegations of developing countries at the United Nations and in other international forums was not enough . |
| 16 | On arrival , guests take off their outdoor shoes at the ryokan entrance and are supplied with slippers ; shoes are handled by the management ( ie , placed at the entrance for you to leave ) , and for walking within the ryokan garden , they supply sandals or traditional geta ( wooden clogs ) . |
| 17 | Sendero Luminoso was believed to be responsible for the murders of three Japanese engineers at the Peruvian-Japanese Farming and Research Training Centre in Huarai , 120 km north of Lima , and of Manuel Inamine , a businessman of Japanese descent , on the outskirts of Lima on July 12 , and for the kidnapping of a farmer of Japanese descent on July 16 . |
| 18 | Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation . |
| 19 | And the seven days at the low dose and then I 'd like you to go onto the slightly higher dose , which is still a low dose , |
| 20 | married women and widows who pay NI contributions at the reduced rate and for whom you hold a valid certificate . |
| 21 | Spearheaded by workers at the Colquiri tin and zinc mine who began a series of strikes in early December , the protests culminated in a COB-called national strike on Jan. 2 , paralysing railways , internal flights , municipal offices and public services . |
| 22 | Madam Deputy Speaker , erm there 'll be no need for any pruning from the chair because I had just mentioned the word banks at the very point that you madam speaker , got up and I can assure that er pruning would not be in order . |
| 23 | I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair . |
| 24 | Between 1909 and 1911 Hill attended evening classes at the Architectural Association while a pupil of William Flockhart . |
| 25 | Taxing all health in-surance benefits provided by employers over a basic insurance package would reduce some inequities at the high end while producing revenues to help small employers and self employed workers to buy insurance . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know that he will : but he was in High Places at the right times so it 's worth trying the Good Old Times routine … ’ |
| 27 | The teenager tapped into data systems across the world , including targets at the Financial Times and universities , using a £200 home computer his mother bought him for Christmas when he was 14 . |
| 28 | With regard to the Bill , after 30 years at the criminal Bar and 35 years in politics , I have been driven reluctantly to the conclusion that fear is a more effective motivator of human behaviour than anything else , especially when dealing with people of ill will . |
| 29 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |
| 30 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |