Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed .
3 Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence .
4 He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters .
5 Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination .
6 Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ?
7 For live performances at smaller venues there is no need for an itemized PRS form because no payment is made for each individual song .
8 The temperature at a pressure of 1 bar is taken as a reference point from which , using the adiabatic lapse-rates of the particular mix of materials at each depth and their equations of state ( section 2.1.4 ) , calculations are made of the temperatures pressures and densities at greater depths .
9 The shortage of opportunities at higher levels within most organisations has left people stuck in jobs for too long .
10 pupils should keep options open for post-16 education and not be denied opportunities at later stages ;
11 At a speed of 600 steps per second , for example , each of the three phases turns off 200 times per second and the average power dissipated in the freewheeling resistance at this speed is 200 x 0.04 W 8 W. The analysis of power losses at higher speeds becomes more involved , because the phase current at turn off is itself a function of operating speed .
12 The dictionary flag served to distinguish between OED and Supplement and between New OED and NEWS entries at earlier stages of processing .
13 Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels .
14 Co-location of staffs would help to break down barriers between the Services , and the development of tri-Service staffs at lower levels would also build up the necessary expertise .
15 Galluim Arsenide fets processed with a special surface deposition exhibit indeterminate switch-on thresholds at low frequencies but work like normal transistors at higher frequencies .
16 Anthropological ideas of the Great Chain of Being had tradi-tionally placed those of European descent at the peak of that classification , and those of other origins at lower levels of development .
17 This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times .
18 The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere .
19 They secrete lime , forming stony cushions near the shores of the Pool and teetering columns at greater depths .
20 He disagreed , saying that yellowing was typical only of high altitude damage in foggy conditions , whereas green needles were falling off trees over wide areas at lower altitudes .
21 To this extent the nation still acts as the overriding social group whose existence serves to contain the most damaging effects of the conflict and factionalism which are daily occurrences at lower levels .
22 First , carbon dioxide and water vapour in the Earth 's atmosphere absorb all infrared between wavelengths of 30 and 300 mm , and also in narrower bands at shorter wavelengths .
23 Similarly clear routes of progression are available for students who have gained the National Certificate ( level I ) : they can progress to either general SVQs or occupational SVQs at higher levels .
24 Sample specifications — general SVQs at higher levels
25 It is true that each one of these components rests atop a pyramid of explanations at lower levels .
26 The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd .
27 Judicial officials at lower levels were normally members of the civil service .
28 Special air-drying techniques using extended room temperature hypotonic treatments , or shorter hypotonic treatments at higher temperatures , have been devised for the production of extended pachytene chromosomes which can be used for mapping of individual bivalents ( 10–13 ) .
29 Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures .
30 ‘ His victims genuinely believed he could obtain goods at cheaper prices than they got from their usual outlets .
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