Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since immigrants from hot countries have settled here for generations , surviving the cold , icy blast , the hybrid ‘ English , ’ with the blood of many nations in their veins will not turn a hair at the cooler climate or the cooler neighbours . |
| 2 | On surfacing , the rate again speeds up , generally remaining at the higher level until the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled air has returned to normal — usually in a few seconds . |
| 3 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 4 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 5 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 6 | Unix Labs made its motion based solely on its copyright claims , anticipating a victory at the upcoming trial and a court-ordered permanent injunction . |
| 7 | USL made its motion based solely on its copyright claims anticipating a victory at the upcoming trial and a court-ordered permanent injunction . |
| 8 | Such local compensation , however , can not occur at the small scale because the lithosphere has a finite strength and so changes in load result in regional isostatic adjustments over a greater area than that actually affected by the change in load ( Fig. 4.7(B) ) . |
| 9 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 10 | There is no need for any concern at the present time but the problems have got to be addressed because they wo n't go away . |
| 11 | Bethpage , New York-based defence electronics and aircraft manufacturer Grumman Corp says it is looking for an acquisition in the electronics , systems integration , or data systems areas — but it must be the right fit at the right price and the company ‘ wo n't force it . ’ |
| 12 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 13 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 14 | It is this age group which is now growing at the fastest rate and the support of the sometimes frail ‘ old ’ is an important policy issue . |
| 15 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 16 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 17 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 18 | Barnett J. went on to hold that the district judge had mistakenly overlooked the reversal of the burden of proof at the second stage but that this had not vitiated his assessment of the material and arguments , nor his arrival at the correct conclusion that the prosecution had discharged the burden thus placed upon it . |
| 19 | Rohmer , who had become so silent , looked at the storm-driven snow and the living electricity which buffeted the window nearest to him . |
| 20 | There was a small queue at the rear exit as the men waited to slip away into the night . |
| 21 | The burglars , often children , keep their victim talking at the front door while an accomplice gets into the house and grabs what he can . |
| 22 | One of Sam 's daughters knocked at the front door until a key landed at her feet , dropped painfully from a bedroom window . |
| 23 | This hits at the established doctrine that the courts recognise no legal limits to Parliament 's legislative power . |
| 24 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |
| 25 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
| 26 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 27 | It is not appropriate that we have a blanket policy at the strategic level and the need for this particular policy it would seem to me is unproven . |
| 28 | No audit opinion is required at the interim stage and the commissaires aux comptes and the auditors have neither carried out an audit nor given an audit opinion . |
| 29 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 30 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |