Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 32 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |
| 33 | The taste for the double telling of a story , both in text and pictures , is never lost , and so the paperback of Asterix and the Secret Weapon ( Hodder & Stoughton , £3.99 ) , which has a feminist infiltrating the English village , will be much welcomed by readers at all stages . |
| 34 | But we know we have readers at all levels ( as befits Britain 's bestselling fishkeeping magazine ) and newcomers arriving all the time . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ; |
| 39 | Critics like Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) do not dispute the fact that men hold the majority of public offices at all levels and have the lion 's share of influence . |
| 40 | Written by the student body , alternative prospectuses give a report on the students viewpoint and can be obtained from individual NUS offices at some colleges of higher education . |
| 41 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 42 | There is nothing to stop pressure groups putting up candidates at parliamentary elections on specific and limited programmes . |
| 43 | Radiometric and spectrometric investigations of such waves indicated that the Cytherean source region was at a temperature of about 670 K. Moreover , radio waves at such wavelengths can readily traverse clouds and atmospheric gases and it was readily established that the Cytherean source region lay well below the cloud tops and was very probably the surface of Venus . |
| 44 | The studies were undertaken under Home Office and University of Birmingham regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals at all times . |
| 45 | Irritations that occur between animals at other times are forgotten in the general feasting . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | So it pays to arrange the squares at right angles to the leading edges or at right angles to the spine . |
| 52 | Security guards at certain plants may well be armed . |
| 53 | They organise tightly and post guards at all hours . |
| 54 | At 1200 hrs on 23 May , 1st Guards Brigade put out a warning order that the Army commander was expected to arrive at the battalion HQ of 3rd Grenadier Guards at 1130 hrs the following morning , where he " wishes to see the Brigade commander and COs " . |
| 55 | Some people argued that it should be possible to run down the existing hospitals almost entirely , replacing them by short-stay psychiatric units at general hospitals and long-term care within the community . |
| 56 | There is a place for psychiatric units at general hospitals , for separate , perhaps isolated , specialized hospitals where a therapeutic community approach can be implemented , and for effective community mental health services . |
| 57 | Meanwhile , the present position is that there are a few small modern psychiatric hospitals , able to make good use of a wide range of therapeutic techniques , some psychiatric units at general hospitals , many doing excellent work with the short-term cases , rather too many old , large institutions and the beginnings of day hospital care and community psychiatry . |
| 58 | MMC said that we should bring our locally-based IT units at all sites with a corporate IT service to which business-based IT units should be accountable . |
| 59 | DBV would therefore get £300,000 worth of factories for £180,000 , the council would get its money back and local businesses would get factory units at affordable rents . |
| 60 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |