Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Some of our colleges are losing staff to the tertiary colleges as Burnham , especially at the lower levels , compares unfavourably with F.E. scales .
32 His nephew , John de Grandisson ( 1292–1369 ) , became bishop of Exeter in 1327 and before his election had continued the family 's role in diplomacy , especially at the papal court .
33 The engineer may request , especially at the tender stage , full details of the proposed resources and the contractor' pricing notes .
34 ‘ As far as the second submission is concerned , I am not able to accept , especially at the interlocutory stage , the extreme view of medical autonomy advanced by the local health authority and the Official Solicitor .
35 Government should review the present low standard of internal audit within all levels of public sector administration , especially at the central government level .
36 The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market .
37 I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema .
38 This evidence is surprisingly extensive , especially at the western end of the site , though more excavation is essential to clarify its distribution .
39 Jaurès worked for reconciliation — especially at the international level — and discouraged conflict .
40 Researchers , especially at the Gerontological Research Center in Bedford , Massachusetts , are at work exploring another property of centrophenoxine that is causing excitement generally among gerontologists .
41 In the course of the 1960s the boundaries of what counted as " English " began to expand as more interdisciplinary and joint programmes of study were offered , especially at the new universities and later at the polytechnics .
42 This was reflected in a loosening of what had traditionally been a strong correlation between landownership and civil and military office , especially at the highest level .
43 Craigleith have produced a perfect card , winning all nine matches by more than the 2 per cent required — a very rare achievement , especially at the highest level . ‘
44 And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions .
45 The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer , especially at the very beginning of the development .
46 The classes certainly do not mirror what you see on the British ballet stage , especially at the Royal Ballet .
47 However , the ‘ cross-boundary flow ’ adjustment has far-reaching implications for health care planning , in particular for equity and priorities , especially at the sub-regional level .
48 Having entered this Christian society the individual had to conform to its beliefs and to demonstrate conformity by attendance at Church , especially at the main feasts of the ecclesiastical year .
49 When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring .
50 You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night .
51 I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and
52 We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival .
53 Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party .
54 Mr Martin Holgate , formerly chief scientist at the environment department and now director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources based in Geneva , will summarise the possible action to be taken a role which he performed brilliantly at the recent London ozone conference .
55 Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect .
56 On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 .
57 IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads .
58 To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings .
59 I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ .
60 I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head .
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