Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a pathetic and lamentable contrast to the vital contribution made by the arts at previous Expos in , for example , Paris in 1900 and 1937 , or Montreal in 1967 . |
| 2 | The attention focusing interpretation of Studies 2 and 3 assumed that risks at dangerous junctions provide better recognition cues than those at safer junction . |
| 3 | This could be because risks at dangerous junctions tend to be multiple and often specific to individual films while risks at safer junctions are often single and common to many exemplars . |
| 4 | Notes Sheep farms are not recommended for visits by pregnant ladies , due to health risks at lambing times . |
| 5 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 6 | She started taking stands at antique fairs in Kent , and at weekends or during school holidays the whole family plus dogs would go on expeditions to Wales , the West Country and East Anglia . |
| 7 | The only workable categorization of Elvis 's music , as we have seen , is not by historical period but by song-type — or more precisely , by apparently self-contradictory assemblages of musical elements as they are mediated by the differential demands of varied songs at various moments . |
| 8 | In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view . |
| 9 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 10 | The vast Butlins holiday camp just minutes from the town centre ( and the Place St Maur des Fosses ) offers the clowns self-catering chalets at bargain-basement rates . |
| 11 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 12 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 13 | He harshly criticized the government , accusing it of " treasonous " mismanagement of the economy by selling off national property to foreigners at cut-rate prices in its bid to privatize state-owned companies . |
| 14 | The main restrictions on foreign travel now remaining appeared to be the difficulty of obtaining foreign exchange ( only $200 could be bought in the Soviet Union ) , visas ( due to long waiting lists at Western embassies in Moscow ) and airline tickets ( for example , the Soviet state airline Aeroflot reported a 13-month waiting list for New York flights ) . |
| 15 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 16 | There are two flights of broad steps at right angles to each other , descending to the paved courtyard : the arrangement is reminiscent of the Theatral Area at Knossos , though at Phaistos it is located in the north-east corner of the West Court . |
| 17 | Fig. 4.8 shows two responses of a motor to a series of steps at different rates . |
| 18 | As it is , he slyly suggests that minor artists may look down their noses at major ones and that ‘ important ’ work may be left to persons of an inferior kennel , like the Russians , the Germans , the Americans , who , poor dears , know no better . |
| 19 | Across the water , none of the intrepid previewers appears to have got wind of DB2/6000 , but tomorrow , IBM is also tipped to unveil a new release of the DB2 mainframe database , version 3.1 with support for Distributed Relational Data Base Architecture for updating databases at multiple sites simultaneously . |
| 20 | Across the water , none of the intrepid previewers appears to have got wind of DB2/6000 , IBM is also tipped to unveil a new release of the DB2 mainframe database , version 3.1 with support for Distributed Relational Data Base Architecture for updating databases at multiple sites simultaneously . |
| 21 | Like many of the the weddings entered into on whims at tawdry chapels along the Vegas Strip , it would be stretching a point to describe Holyfield-Bowe as a match made in heaven . |
| 22 | The compilation of a spatially coherent database from mapped information compiled by different organizations at different scales and on different topographic bases ( see Rhind and Clark 1988 ) is often difficult ; |
| 23 | There is nothing to stop pressure groups putting up candidates at parliamentary elections on specific and limited programmes . |
| 24 | Irritations that occur between animals at other times are forgotten in the general feasting . |
| 25 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 26 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 27 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 28 | According to the science of optics , light travelling from objects enters the eyes at differing angles according to distance ; the further away an object is , the more nearly parallel are the light rays from it . |
| 29 | So it pays to arrange the squares at right angles to the leading edges or at right angles to the spine . |
| 30 | Security guards at certain plants may well be armed . |