Example sentences of "of [noun] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 2 | The problem is one of the continuing dominance of traditional models of assessment at the same time as trying to introduce other models based on quite different educational premises . |
| 3 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 4 | This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times . |
| 5 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 6 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 7 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 8 | The arrangement of molecules at the potential energy maximum is known as the ‘ activated complex ’ . |
| 9 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 10 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 11 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 12 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 13 | A YOUNG Coldstream Guardsman confined to a wheelchair by catastrophic injuries when an army vehicle driven by a comrade overturned in Cyprus , was awarded £1 million agreed damages against the Ministry of Defence at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 14 | The Monument to the Iron Duke overlooks the busy town of Wellington at the western end of the ridge , and there are small country houses and bird gardens to visit . |
| 15 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 16 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 17 | A smile can charm and delude us so that we accept even lies and insults — providing that they are accompanied by the expected flash of teeth at the same time ! |
| 18 | In 1886 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal College of Science , London . |
| 19 | Eventually the bus load of children was dumped in the middle of Swindon at the main bus station . |
| 20 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 21 | In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level . |
| 22 | Harriet Harvey Wood , head of literature at the British Council , is awarded an OBE , as is Dorothy Butler in New Zealand for services to children 's literature . |
| 23 | I shall cover our response to the needs of the voluntary sector , of Eastern Europe , of Africa and I shall say a particular few words about the needs of children , the subject which is of course at the very heart of your work . |
| 24 | One would not try to explain the flight of birds at the molecular level , whereas that level is most appropriate if we wish to understand how muscles contract . |
| 25 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |
| 26 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 27 | The crew are coached by vice-captain David Storrs and Derek Gordon who between them have an immense depth of experience at the highest level . |
| 28 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 29 | Research on interests in local politics , and research on the " third world " of groups at the national level with only limited and sporadic access to government , has revealed a picture of the interest-group world starkly at odds with the rosy optimism of the pluralist perspective . |
| 30 | Wizards may be selected from any of the four levels of wizard at the appropriate points cost as shown below . |