Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Like many commonplace food products , including salt or even carrots , alcohol can be regarded as harmful if consumed in very large amounts , but at low levels of consumption it is harmless .
2 At low levels of stress you can become :
3 At low levels of arousal it is assumed that attention is divided among many cues so there will potentially be some memory for all cues .
4 At high levels of stress you can become :
5 For patients with low levels of dependency , providing domiciliary care is cheaper than providing institutional care , but at high levels of dependency it becomes more expensive .
6 At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain .
7 They receive no extra remuneration whatsoever for their duties although at some times of course it can be quite dangerous .
8 Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent .
9 At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent .
10 At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond .
11 My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years .
12 The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life .
13 I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise .
14 He found that the bats ' activity was clearly related to the air temperature , but also that at certain times of year they were crucially influenced by the street lights ( Holarctic Ecology , vol. 14 , pp 203–7 ) .
15 But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away .
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