Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with trying to make any general evaluation of support teaching at this stage , however , is that no generally agreed definition of support teaching actually exists . |
| 2 | The six-monthly reviews of respite care at the residential home provided a focus for monitoring the level and type of support needed at any stage . |
| 3 | A check on the number of tablets returned at each visit showed that all patients took at least 70% of the tablets prescribed , and that the median ( interquartile range ) number of antacid tablets consumed per week was similar in both groups ( cisapride 2.2 ( 0.1–5.7 ) ; placebo 1.9 ( 0.3–3.6 ) : p=0.76 , Mann-Whitney U test ) . |
| 4 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 5 | The lack of base stacking at this step is clear in this view . |
| 6 | Howard has suggested that threats of force directed at any person for whom the complainant ‘ has or is presumed to have strong affections ’ should negative consent . |
| 7 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 8 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 9 | The readiness of Scots to migrate at this period has prompted suggestions that there were forces inherent in Scottish society which encouraged high levels of mobility and a propensity to migrate , but this has yet to be shown . |
| 10 | The correlation between median age at first marriage and infecundity at ages 20–24 years is negative and as strong as in the case of proportion married at exact age 16 years . |
| 11 | But in the absence of an increase in the speed of mechanization in the early seventies , the peak rates of accumulation achieved at that time generated peak intensities of demand for labour . |
| 12 | Gorbachev , speaking to the Central Committee in December 1989 , professed to welcome the ‘ positive changes ’ that had taken place in Eastern Europe , but it was difficult to disguise the fact that the sphere of influence acquired at great cost during World War II had disappeared , probably for good . |
| 13 | President , the whole economic af future of Tyneside stands at this minute in the balance . |
| 14 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 15 | What differs between projects is the complexity and scope of work required at each step . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a body of work aimed at non-problematic representation , ’ Giannaris explains , ‘ the genre of ‘ coming out ’ films . |
| 17 | A transparency sent round in a cab or a special piece of artwork produced at short notice can be just as valuable as an exciting launch or a slap-up lunch . |
| 18 | SS shows the quantity of films supplied at each price received by producers and is also the marginal social cost of producing films . |
| 19 | The experiment , known as the Isotropic Lead Experiment , involved substituting a special isotope of lead mined at Broken Hill in New south Wales , Australia for the normal additive in all petrol sold in the area . |
| 20 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 21 | The fuel gauge is a bent-wire-and-float arrangement in front of the windscreen , and the fuel pump actually keeps the header tank full during flight until no fuel remains in the wings , whereupon you have an hour's-worth of fuel left at normal cruising speed . |
| 22 | The fundamental types of landform created at convergent plate margins are orogens and island arcs . |
| 23 | The project will also seek to examine the differences in the nature of service provided at different fee levels . |
| 24 | The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place . |
| 25 | The extent of the warranty of title implied at common law is that the possession given to the purchaser will be undisturbed by the vendor or auctioneer and that the latter knows no defect in the vendor 's title ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products . |
| 27 | Well one of the variants that , that was applied , you see under the , under the old er er time workers ' er arrangements where it was only the foreman who by visual contact you know with the amount of items produced at each machine could make any reasonable assessment in regard to the individual 's effort . |
| 28 | ( h ) Octavian , later Augustus , heir to Julius Caesar , portrayed on a coin minted in 36–31 BC. ( c ) Antiochus III , King of Syria ( 223–187 BC ) , Is thought to have been the model for the portraits of Octavian made at this period . |
| 29 | The company is highly devolved , with only a small number of staff based at head office in Altrincham , outside Manchester . |
| 30 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |