Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 2 | On the autobahn or the test track , this translates into an uncanny ability to accelerate strongly to 140 mph with sufficient in reserve to cruise at that speed for as long as conditions allow . |
| 3 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 4 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 5 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 6 | He talks as if I 'm free to go at any minute , and I 'm the same . ) |
| 7 | Disabled Visitors : Narrow and uneven paths and many steps , not ideal for wheelchairs ; no more than 2 admitted at one time ; may be loaned at ticket office . |
| 8 | The agent subsequently contacted us to advise that the company 's was the highest bid and asked if we would be prepared to proceed at that figure . |
| 9 | You are free to cancel at any time . |
| 10 | It is clear to see at most training clubs that praise is in very short supply with novice and even more experienced handlers . |
| 11 | For example , a broker might know that one market maker has a strong demand for CDs of six month maturity , but can only find an issuer willing to issue at three months . |
| 12 | Feminists studying language have in general been more interested in furthering the study of sex difference than in criticising it , and though it is acceptable to sneer at long-dead commentators like Jespersen , whose work we will shortly come to , a thorough critique of modem sociolinguistics has been very slow to emerge . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously I think about it , every East German has at some time thought about it , or still does . |
| 14 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 15 | It is interesting to remember at this point that the EC excludes the Canary Islands , the Channel Islands and the French Overseas Departments , but includes Monaco and the Isle of Man . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) It is frequently possible that if one homoclinic orbit occurs at one parameter value , and another occurs at another parameter value , then certain general properties of an intermediate sequence of homoclinic orbits can be determined . |
| 17 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 18 | It made me feel funny looking at that hair , and I did n't like it . |
| 19 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 20 | This occurs at great heights where atmospheric densities are very low , so that many of the liberated hydrogen atoms escape into space before colliding with oxygen atoms and becoming water molecules . |
| 21 | This occurs at high pressure . |
| 22 | Among the symposia mooted is one in 1993 looking at new museum media for the millennium , organised with the Video Department of the Whitney Museum in New York . |
| 23 | So a car developing 30 horsepower at 60 miles an hour is releasing some 90 kW of heat continuously into the air . |
| 24 | They would seem to be of integral importance to any manager or coach handling black sportsmen , yet few theorize at any level other than the physiological or , more occasionally , the psychological . |
| 25 | But if that was what Adams wanted , well , he was willing to clutch at any straw . |
| 26 | 2 Look at this list in terms of the relevant media and make a list of objectives to achieve within the period . |
| 27 | The Government 's new City Challenge Initiative , which we are all hoping will be accepted er on behalf of , that they are willing to look at social partnership with firms , although we have reservations about some of their proposals er in that area . |
| 28 | And they were very , very prepared to look at different department 's needs , and to have a very wide-ranging staff discussion on what the curriculum needs were , and to buy the books accordingly , and then to move on to how they should use them . |
| 29 | But we are perfectly prepared to look at scientific evidence — we are not afraid of that . |
| 30 | The majority , however , were adamantly opposed to anything which weakened their absolute control over their crews and were prepared to take any action which would ensure that this was upheld , the most effective method being the recruitment of non-union crews which were prepared to sail at lower rates and under worse conditions than union men . |