Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget , she was returning to a village in the north , hardly the most progressive or liberal-minded place at the best of times , and this particular village was especially proud of its moral record . |
| 2 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 3 | However , the Full Moon on May 16 could provide a happy ending and , despite the odd hold-up or broken promise at the end of May , things are looking up professionally and financially . |
| 4 | ‘ A person is qualified to succeed the tenant under a secure tenancy if he occupies the dwelling-house as his only or principal home at the time of the tenant 's death and either — ( a ) he is the tenant 's spouse , or ( b ) he is another member of the tenant 's family and has resided with the tenant throughout the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death ; … |
| 5 | But , as a recent OECD publication Labour Market Policies for the 1990s ( OECD 1990a ) has shown , the United Kingdom , of all member countries , had the second lowest percentage of young people in full- or part-time education at the age of 17 in 1986 — 7 . |
| 6 | You are not likely to be asked to write a report on a complex or recondite subject at the stage that you have reached in your studies . |
| 7 | All that now remains is to fit the stand-offs and stretchers ( also called whiskers or whiskas in some kites ) which enable the kite to adopt its conical shape , and as described earlier , to Induce ‘ washout ’ or reflex angle at the tips . |
| 8 | On an index of potential or actual delinquency at the age of 11 — based on stealing , truancy and trouble with neighbours , police or school — high scores were associated with severe or frequent corporal punishment . |
| 9 | And er during the time I was in in Albert Street although I was still very interested in the union and on the committee I think I was president or vice president at the time , there the job for a local organizer come up . |
| 10 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 11 | Prof J. Bremner , CChem , FRSC , has taken up his appointment as professor or organic chemistry at the University of Wollongong , Australia . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Where there is an available market for the goods in question the measure of damages is prima facie to be ascertained by the difference between the contract price and market or current price at the time or times when the goods ought to have been accepted , or ( if no time was fixed for acceptance ) at the time of the refusal to accept . ’ |
| 13 | There are a few people who develop sores or cracked skin at the corner of the mouth and suffer from riboflavin or vitamin B2 deficiency . |
| 14 | Graphics-based applications are developed using the company 's C-Scape screen handler , which includes application programming interfaces for running Windows 3 , Motif or Open Look at the front-end . |
| 15 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 16 | The production of written or spoken language at the single-word level ( as , for example , when you answer a question like ‘ What is the large grey animal with tusks and a trunk ? ’ or write down the name of a picture shown to you ) is not difficult to explain . |
| 17 | Wherever there appears to be a ‘ mystique ’ about the interviewing — suggestions that these results were possible because of some mystical skills possessed by the interviewer — then one is likely to be moving from social science towards journalism , or special pleading at the very least . |
| 18 | In practice many laboratories use two electrodes on the scalp , one at the vertex ( midway centrally between the bridge of the nose and the inion , or bony bump at the base of the cranium ) , and one frontally , about two centimetres behind the hairline . |
| 19 | The ISIS-2 trial , although not designed to assess the effects of heparin , also provided subgroup data for patients who received subcutaneous or intravenous heparin at the discretion of the treating physician . |
| 20 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 21 | The figure of over 40 per cent seems too high to be merely chance and he suggested that burials were being placed on boundaries , and that hence , because the dates of the burials were known from the types of grave goods , the boundaries must be of sixth- or seventh-century date at the latest . |
| 22 | This head has the typically Iberian ear , with a scroll or shell-like shape at the top , but it is grotesquely exaggerated in size — a comparison of a side view of this head with a watercolour in the Museum of Modern Art in New York shows that Picasso found this feature of it particularly fascinating . |
| 23 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 24 | For solar flares there is evidence that magnetic reconnection at the tops of loops is often involved in supplying energy particularly for larger structures ( , Tokyo University ) . |
| 25 | You know that bass bit at the beginning of Van Halen 's Running With The Devil ? |
| 26 | This suggests that careful annealing at the appropriate temperature could produce samples with a high degree of crystallinity . |
| 27 | In language that was strikingly reminiscent of the Khmers Rouges , a CPP official predicted that popular anger at the conduct of the election might lead to ‘ insurrection or riot ’ . |
| 28 | Thus it can be seen that individual help at the reference desk has both advantages and disadvantages as a method of library user instruction . |
| 29 | After the miraculous discovery that constant tugging at the organ produces a highly pleasurable sensation , the adolescent male develops an insatiable appetite for sexual self-abuse . |
| 30 | It is also important that regular attendance at the meetings of these outside bodies should be maintained in order to preserve continuity of co-operation between the local authority and the outside body . |