Example sentences of "[noun] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Japan , the relationship between maternal age and late fetal death ratios is " J " shaped at most birth orders , but the pattern is more variable in the two central European countries , where the ratios are either increasing with successive age classes ( beginning with the youngest ) as the first , third ( except at age group 25–29 years ) and sixth and higher orders , or the relation is " J " shaped ( somewhat lower at ages 20–24 than at ages under 20 and increasing thereafter , with the highest risks at the oldest ages ) as at the second and fourth orders of reverse " J " shaped as at the fifth birth order . |
| 2 | There is substantially more information both general and related to risks at the risky junctions than at the less risky ones . |
| 3 | One glance at the young men emerging from a vehicle told her that the rafting parties had arrived , and within moments Silas was there to greet them . |
| 4 | A glance at the vested interests of the four debaters , debating whether sports-climbing is threatening the traditional ethos of British climbing , throws up interesting comparisons . |
| 5 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 6 | Twenty trainee drivers , moustaches bristling , risked a backward glance at the two lovelies at the fare stage , before riveting their attention once more on the words of wisdom being spouted by the clean-shaven official in command of the steering handle . |
| 7 | A single glance at the actual contents of Mogridge 's cupboard embarrassed me . |
| 8 | He spared a glance at the ragged specimens of humanity crouched against the wall and wondered how many of them had once been prosperous farmers or innkeepers or tradesmen . |
| 9 | A glance at the Financial Times or Money Management will reveal the large number and variety of offshore funds in existence . |
| 10 | THOSE OF the opinion that rock ‘ n ’ roll is a soft option are advised to cast a cynical glance at the Screaming Trees . |
| 11 | A glance at the assembled guests told him what he already knew — that no one looked quite as good as he did . |
| 12 | The third of Salter and Tapper 's concept , the ‘ means ’ to support change , has not been offered to arts education , whereas funds for the development of more vocationally orientated education have been forthcoming , as a glance at the original categories of ESGs , TVEI and GRIST demonstrates . |
| 13 | They backed the horse between the traces and untied her hobble without a glance at the Horsey townsfolk who watched them from a very great distance . |
| 14 | One glance at the mounted soldiers emerging from the trees was enough . |
| 15 | In a letter to staff he said : ‘ I have to express my disappointment at the proposed changes . |
| 16 | ‘ Just a little liaising at the lower levels . ’ |
| 17 | This was used to determine the limits of the view field by placing a white card at the four sides in turn and moving it until just seen . |
| 18 | we went to meet mummy at the Jolly Farmers |
| 19 | That year the British Amateur Athletic Board issued some questionnaires at the English Schools Championships asking athletes what they needed in order to help them improve . |
| 20 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 21 | Most Western governments are actually helping Pol Pot by giving diplomatic support to the Khmer Rouge-dominated coalition at the United Nations ( UN Resolution 44/22 passed on 16 November , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | However , as the third week began in Croydon , Bates dispatched a series of home players , including Mark Petchey , Sean Cole ( avenging a previous defeat at the National Championships ) , Andrew Richardson ( who gave a fine performance reflecting future potential ) and Joelson . |
| 23 | In principle only the difference signal between the noninverting and inverting inputs is amplified ; like input signals at the two inputs create cancelling signals at the output . |
| 24 | Thermal and bias variations tend to create equal signals at the two inputs and therefore negligible output . |
| 25 | Was the shooting at the violent times ? |
| 26 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 27 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 28 | Cast your mind back to Day 1 and your first attempt at the elementary exercises I asked you to perform . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't want to stop during the race because it was my first attempt at the 400 metres hurdles and I wanted to get into the junior rankings , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |