Example sentences of "[adj] at a [adj] [noun] " 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 | Responding to Labour criticism of the Government 's failure to implement a manifesto pledge on legislation to crack down on the sale and carrying of knives , Lord Fraser said ministers would like to act on this at an early opportunity . |
| 4 | He did this at an intellectual level , and one of his chief instruments was the German-British Fellowship . |
| 5 | He did this at an intellectual level , and one of his chief instruments was the German-British Christian Fellowship . |
| 6 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rhee became involved in political agitation in the 1890s at an early age during the period of squabbling between court factions supporting Russia or Japan respectively . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Project set out to develop and encourage ‘ good practice ’ in the teaching of mathematics to low-attaining pupils , but it became clear at an early stage that low attainment was not limited to pupils in the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ attainment range . |
| 13 | The consortia which are established may cover a wide range of situations and it is important that the position of each centre involved is made clear at an early stage in the validation process . |
| 14 | It is appropriate to make clear at an early stage in the report the general status of the information which it contains . |
| 15 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A further eight-day strike for wage increases by 13,000 Centromín miners , supported by colleagues at the Cerro de Pasco complex of zinc and copper mines , ended on March 22 at an estimated cost in lost production of $10,000,000 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | • Over-70s at an elderly day centre at Portsmouth raised £150 with a sponsored sing-a-long . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This would be unstable at a lower Reynolds number than any attached boundary layer , and rapid amplification of disturbances would occur as shown in Fig. 18.6 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The product will be available as of May 1993 at an introductory price of $700 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |