Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequent criticism of the dearth of technical demonstrations at the Royal Welsh prompted MLC 's regional beef specialist , Brinley Davies , to stage a third day livestock ring presentation of practical genetics . |
| 2 | Erm and possibly the installation of mini roundabouts at the minor junctions erm would give us quite a lot of benefit . |
| 3 | At a more practical level , but under the shadow of such an ideal , went the building of a series of administrative layers at the sensitive ideological point between the official state and the mass of the people . |
| 4 | The principal explanation is likely to be that so characteristic of English educational provision , where the strength of local initiatives is also a weakness ; where central government 's desire to support and disseminate a variety of innovative practices at the local level can lead to confusion and contradiction in national policy-making . |
| 5 | Until 1989 he was director of European affairs at the environmental and energy policy centre of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , and until 1990 a broadcaster on the BBC and commercial radio , a company director and public affairs advisor . |
| 6 | Delamotte belonged to that Society and was a member of the Society of Arts , and of the Society of Artists , having exhibited a number of architectural drawings at the Royal Academy . |
| 7 | In many parts of the tropics there are mass spawnings of marine worms at the full moon at identical periods each year , the water glowing phosphorescent green during these mass nuptials . |
| 8 | In London , meanwhile , a Whitehall report citing all sorts of commercial opportunities at the British Museum has drawn a defensive response : suggestions that the museum might see itself more like a branch of the leisure industry have got the staff bristling with indignation . |
| 9 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 10 | They buy their inventories of raw materials at the same times and at the same prices . |
| 11 | Another useful study , which looks at the implications of demographic trends for a range of different activities at the national level , is Ermisch ( 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Search can be made through a number of different files at the same time . |
| 13 | In Tectonic Plates , he tackled identity and geography , inventing a theatrical vocabulary that fits the experience of straddling a number of different realities at the same time . |
| 14 | Many of the coaxial links in the ground today can carry only a handful of different channels at the same time . |
| 15 | This is certainly true of lesser men at the royal court . |
| 16 | After breaking off diplomatic relations with Mary 's husband , Philip II of Spain , he revoked Pole 's legatine commission and proceeded to order the arrest of Cardinal Morone , a close friend of Pole and the representative of English interests at the papal court . |
| 17 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 18 | They shared a common concern to explain the events that had changed the lives of themselves and their families , and came from an intellectual tradition that stressed causes and the analysis of social events at the macro level . |
| 19 | Neatly coinciding with the current outstanding exhibition of British watercolours at the Royal Academy , nearby Bond Street dealers Agnew 's are holding their annual and much respected watercolour exhibition , the one hundred and twentieth of its kind ( 8 March to 2 April ) . |
| 20 | Together with Scottish Innovation , which has co-ordinated the attendance of Scottish companies at the previous seven events , they aim to attract a number of Scottish companies interested in forging links with European partners at Lille . |
| 21 | LADY Arran , a 71-year-old countess with a penchant for speed , put Britain back in the record books yesterday with a storming run in a hydroplane that made light of choppy conditions at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont , Nottingham . |
| 22 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 23 | In 1971 the small group of regular journalists at the Old Bailey received £150 damages each for the intolerable insult of being collectively described in " The Spectator " as " beer-sodden hacks " . |
| 24 | Within the area of curriculum-specific courses at the Primary Centre there were some marked changes of priority during the four years , and these are illustrated in Figure 7.3 . |
| 25 | The meeting comes after months of turmoil at Ferranti , from the discovery of a series of bogus contracts at the International Signal subsidiary , most of which were committed before it was bought by Ferranti in 1987 . |
| 26 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 27 | As an example of phonetic differences at the segmental level , it is said that Australian English has the same set of phonemes and phonemic contrasts as RP , yet Australian pronunciation is so different from RP that it is easily recognised as such . |
| 28 | A remarkable illustrated papyrus has recently been acquired by the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum from Christie 's before auction . |
| 29 | Dr Ivan Edwards , former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and the foremost expert on the pyramids , has suggested that if there is any chamber beyond the door it is likely to be the same size as the passageway . |
| 30 | On your graph you may find it easier , to start with , to leave the knit rows as blanks , then when you have more experience , you can use the punchcard method of simply writing the number of plain rows at the left-hand side . |