Example sentences of "in [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The wind rarely blows constantly and results can vary depending on whether the wind is increasing or decreasing in speed at the particular moment when an ammeter reading is taken . |
| 32 | Granted this set of policies , Aëtius can scarcely have been well placed to gather the confederacy which kept Attila in check at the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 33 | So this is how keeps them in check at the special analysis section of the Ipswich Maltings . |
| 34 | The two senior residents frowned in unison at the rising temperature chart . |
| 35 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |
| 36 | PRINCE Charles ' great architectural opponent , Max Hutchinson , has ordered that the engraving of his name in marble at the Royal Institute of British Architects ' headquarters , be altered . |
| 37 | Business strength is a measure of the proficiency with which the firm deals with all aspects of the specific product/market complex in question at the present time . |
| 38 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 39 | Asik gazed in wonder at the strange contraption . |
| 40 | He would rub a soft soap-filled sponge over her back and shoulders , and his eyes would widen in wonder at the pure whiteness of her skin and the plump coarse rosebud teats jutting like angry things from her breasts . |
| 41 | But as she climbed from the jeep , she stood in wonder at the magnificent edifice being constructed with workmanlike efficiency . |
| 42 | She sighed in delight at the delicious possibilities for revenge … |
| 43 | We should look seriously at such ideas , because , unless we say that everybody should be in work at the same time , we can not just forget the pool of unemployed . |
| 44 | Steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian Area are transferred to us in exchange at the same time . |
| 45 | The female ichneumon wasp has an ovipositor like a dagger with which she drills a hole in wood at the exact point where she has detected a beetle grub lying beneath . |
| 46 | For example , Althusser argues that revolutionary situations can only occur when the economic system is in crisis at the same time as the political and ideological structures are in crisis . |
| 47 | The major slick , and the only one posing a serious threat to wildlife , had emanated from the Mina al-Ahmadi terminal in Kuwait , and from oil storage tanks ruptured in combat at the Saudi border town of Khafji ; smaller slicks came from Iraq 's Mina al-Bakr terminal and facilities around Bubiyan Island . |
| 48 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 49 | J Is for Judgement comes in hardback at the same time . |
| 50 | The driver yelled curses at her , slashing in fright at the helpless donkey . |
| 51 | ‘ He was in residence at the local hall , ’ confirms Mitchell , ‘ because he was in bed with the cook . ’ |
| 52 | A trained psychiatric nurse , he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital . |
| 53 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 54 | Inside the bedroom she stared around her in awe at the sheer scale and opulence of the room . |
| 55 | They visited the huge Gothic cathedral and gazed in awe at the beautiful Murillos — Saint Anthony and the Immaculate Conception — the stained-glass windows and the many other treasures the centuries had gifted the cathedral with . |
| 56 | He joined the government laboratory in 1897 and , by arrangements recently made for assistants , he attended courses in chemistry at the Royal College of Science for two years , 1897–9 , but did not take his degree . |
| 57 | In part , the difference in behaviour at the three sites reflects the relationship between a lava and its gas content , a topic which will be discussed further in the next section . |
| 58 | As he looked in astonishment at the strange find , the voice of Alice was in his head , telling stories of childhood . |
| 59 | He wrinkled his nose in distaste at the acrid smell of the place . |
| 60 | As the ranges of the males overlap , it is hardly surprising that the females are regularly courted by several males during the course of the breeding season — a female may have as many as four males in pursuit at the same time . |