Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vultures are known for their extremely keen eyesight , and their ability to take advantage of thermals with their extensive wings and soar for hours at high altitudes . |
| 2 | Its Market Supervision Department is charged with ensuring an orderly market for contracts at all times . |
| 3 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 4 | Irritations that occur between animals at other times are forgotten in the general feasting . |
| 5 | Some dealers worried the so-called ‘ repo ’ rate would rise after the Bundesbank asked banks to bid for funds at variable rates rather than the fixed 8.25 per cent set in recent tenders . |
| 6 | DEC will offer services using the technology in partnership with cable companies , and will go after business , universities , local governments and hospitals that need to send data between computers at different sites within a city or town . |
| 7 | The group which needs donations also gives advice on looking after pets at all ages throughout their lives . |
| 8 | The access problem : how do we establish a correspondence between elements at different levels of description ? ( i.e. between a sequence of phonemes or syllables , and a word ) . |
| 9 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 10 | Thus it is clear that to develop heavy industry one must increase the supply of products at all costs and by all means . |
| 11 | Some industries have a need for the quarantining of products at various stages of manufacture , right up to actual use , in order to satisfy quality control and statutory requirements . |
| 12 | National development organizations and regional or international agencies sometimes offer long-term loans for certain classes of projects at low rates of interest . |
| 13 | Ideally the components of the shadowed side of objects at five miles should be ‘ just not invisible . ’ |
| 14 | This ‘ affected primarily the redistribution of personnel at higher levels without reaching the heart of the problems … and … often resulted in incoherencies , contradictions and duplications ’ ( CEFE 1984 : 59 ) . |
| 15 | This is consistent with Clayton Aniline 's commitment to empowerment which is a policy designed to release the talents and potential of personnel at all levels . |
| 16 | As a result , due to constant interchange of personnel at all levels . |
| 17 | English Heritage , for instance , can offer a range of activities at different sites . |
| 18 | In 100 women undergoing termination of pregnancy , coelomic fluid was successfully aspirated in 96% of cases at 6–10 weeks ' gestation , 42% at 11 , and 10% at 12 weeks . |
| 19 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 21 | Most people are happy with the idea of homologies at low levels in the nervous system . |
| 22 | Already groups of Operators at both sites are studying for the Chemical Industries/City and Guilds NVQ designed for them . |
| 23 | Throw in Ferruzzi 's share of debts at other companies such as Fondiaria , one of Italy 's biggest insurers , in which the group has an interest , and its state of health is far worse . |
| 24 | The studies were undertaken under Home Office and University of Birmingham regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals at all times . |
| 25 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 26 | The shortage of opportunities at higher levels within most organisations has left people stuck in jobs for too long . |
| 27 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 28 | Fig. 4.8 shows two responses of a motor to a series of steps at different rates . |
| 29 | The ANC also rejected the call made by de Klerk that the ANC become a political party , saying that such a transformation could not take place until a constitution was in place allowing the participation of blacks at all levels . |
| 30 | We know that shrunken village earthworks are very common , perhaps the most common of all archaeological field monuments , and that they must indicate shrinkage and movement of settlements at all times . |