Example sentences of "[adj] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore my clients would much rather deal with this at a strategic level than in individual district plans . |
| 2 | Peter Hall directs all this at a hectic pace around Carl Toms 's lavish set . |
| 3 | We do not know how far these findings are generalisable at a national level , but we are reasonably confident that the study practices were representative of the totality of fundholding practices in the Oxford region and that the fundholding and control practices were fairly well matched on those variables , such as distance from provider units , which might have affected referral patterns . |
| 4 | Through the worst of the winter they have had no proper play area ; the old school building is deteriorating at a rapid rate and they have also had to find room to store the furniture for the new school which has already been delivered . |
| 5 | As a model of gene activation , the mechanism discovered by Jacob and Monod in bacteria again provides a satisfactory prototype , although we know that the changes that occur in eukaryotic cells are different at a molecular level , and far more stable . |
| 6 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 7 | The termination of the Temporary Provisions and the constitutional reforms had been approved on April 22 at a special session of the National Assembly , the sole branch of government with the power to amend the Constitution . |
| 8 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
| 9 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 10 | Negotiations between the government and the ANC on constitutional reform , deadlocked for six months , finally seemed set to move ahead after a compromise was reached on Feb. 12 at a 12-hour meeting in Cape Town between delegations led respectively by de Klerk and Mandela . |
| 11 | MAY I thank the following persons who gave their services free at a recent function held by the Royal Victoria Heart Club : Barnbrack , Sylvia Paris , Yvonne , Mary Ann , Bobby Crowthers , David Patterson ; the committee and staff of the Ulster Sports Club , High Street who gave their premises free ; the prize donors ; and , finally , those who attended . |
| 12 | Excise duty in most countries is lower for unleaded than 4-star , so some garages are allegedly buying lead free at a lower rate of tax and selling it on to customers as leaded . |
| 13 | Except for the purposes of Rule 11 , the Code defines voting rights as all the voting rights attributable to the share capital of a company which are currently exercisable at a general meeting . |
| 14 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 15 | This was followed by a film of a mediaeval banquet at which the guests , after much lusty eating and drinking , undressed one another at a leisurely pace , then climbed on to the refectory table for a general post , to the accompaniment on the sound track of much wheezing and grunting . |
| 16 | Currency Options differ from Forward Options as they give the Option buyer the right , but not the obligation , to deliver one currency and take delivery of another at a prearranged exchange rate on a pre-arranged maturity date . |
| 17 | Careful scrutiny reveals that the cross-sections of such scarps are something like that shown in Figure 7.7 ( b ) , which in turn can represent the situation shown in Figure 7.7 ( c ) in which one piece of surface is thrust over another at a low angle . |
| 18 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 19 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 20 | GUIL : A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name , character , population or significance , sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear . |
| 21 | I have ample evidence that persons who are very aware of matters of public interest in general have been unaware at a critical stage of the washed-over status at that time of Skelton . |
| 22 | All of the beliefs and thoughts which create our reality are now accessible at a conscious level . |
| 23 | That proposition was suddenly launched from nowhere on 30 July 1991 at a curious press conference which the Secretary of State gave in the Adelphi hotel , Liverpool outside a meeting of the Professional Association of Teachers . |
| 24 | The food is wonderful and holiday living is amazing at a low cost . |
| 25 | If you are parched and need a large bottle of something fizzy at a reasonable price as opposed to a small bottle at an extortionate price , Via Mazzini is the place to go . |
| 26 | For preference shares issued pre 6.4.73 at a fixed rate of dividend the new rate should be shown . |
| 27 | This is known colloquially as the old age pension and is payable at a flat rate to all those who have finally retired from the labour market provided they have the appropriate national insurance contributions . |
| 28 | Class 2 contributions are payable at a flat rate while Class 4 contributions are payable as a percentage of profits . |
| 29 | In Schedule 4 to the rules , there are four forms of petition , namely : Form 6.7-petition on failure to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payable immediately Form 6.8-petition on failure to comply with a statutory demand for a liquidated sum payable at a future date Form 6.9-petition where execution or other process on a judgment has been returned unsatisfied in whole or part Form 6.10-petition for default in connection with voluntary arrangement . |
| 30 | 4 Debt payable at a future date and of a periodic nature |