Example sentences of "[conj] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 2 | These kind of skills are not rewarded in school , where memory is more important , or at the lower levels of organisation . |
| 3 | Almost half of Shrewsbury has Welsh blood , or at the least friends in Wales . |
| 4 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 5 | The satellite 's primary role is to fill in the existing picture of the heavens , revealing stars , galaxies , clouds and so on that are not seen at the shorter optical and ‘ near ’ infrared wavelengths ( less than 5 micrometres ) , or at the longer wavelengths observed by radio telescopes . |
| 6 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 7 | There had been concern that ETA might seek to strike at the Expo 92 Universal Exhibition in Seville , held from April 20 to Oct. 12 , or at the Olympic Games in Barcelona ( July 25-Aug. 9 ) . |
| 8 | the social worker at the hospital or at the Social Services Department will help the family make plans if necessary |
| 9 | As a result there was no informed discussion within the department or at the Social Services Committee about resource issues and the status of the recommendations remained vague . |
| 10 | This initial contact can then be followed up through subsequent casual encounters in the street or at the local shops , and through an invitation to a coffee-chat or meal to meet other neighbours . |
| 11 | However , although at the upper levels of society locative and other bynames became surnames and survived from this early period , this was not true at the lower levels and certainly there is no uniformity in the development of surnames . |
| 12 | The second factor shows that at the highest speeds the pull.out torque is inversely proportional to the supply frequency and that , as before , a large total phase resistance improves the high speed performance . |
| 13 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 14 | This suggests that at the low concentrations of H 2 found in aquatic sediments , Fe(III) may be the preferred electron acceptor . |
| 15 | It was held that at the relevant stages the seller could sue for the instalments then due . |
| 16 | The path down to the sea was certainly steep but Brian noticed that at the worst bends , new paling had been erected . |
| 17 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 18 | After unification it was proposed that about 16 politicians from East Germany should attend with observer status and that at the next elections to the European Parliament ( scheduled for 1994 ) Germany 's representation in the Parliament would be increased from its present 81 members to 97 . |
| 19 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 20 | But we need to fill the gap , and by the way colleagues , I think it is appropriate , just to end this particular section of my reply with the comment that at the public services section conference from our count forty percent of the delegates there had never been to a G M B conference before . |
| 21 | If the cross-section happens to be smaller at a certain place , then the forces are larger there than at the neighbouring cross-sections , so the beam will be further constricted , etc. , leading to the so-called sausage instability ( Fig. 3.3(a) ) . |
| 22 | On the other hand , in countries where fetal deaths for the maternal age group under 15 are not reported separately but are included in the under 20 age group , the relationship takes a " J " shape , since the chances for giving birth a viable child are poorer at the oldest childbearing ages than at the late teens . |
| 23 | Write-offs also rose faster at the regionals than at the money-centre banks . |
| 24 | Bridget reported that the numbers for the Easter Course were much lower than at the previous courses held at Avery Hill . |
| 25 | Business sales have also fallen more sharply than at the same stages of the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions . |
| 26 | Despite the relatively large range of experimental exothermicities , enthalpy and entropy work in a compensating manner to give free energies for single strand helix formation that are generally close to zero at 300 K. Free energy costs per rotor in double stranded DNA and RNA are consistent with these limiting values ; large stacking exothermicities result in a large cost in free energy for restricting a rotation that , in the upper limit ( 5.4 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for G-C on C-G stacking ) , bears comparison with the values reported by Page & Jencks [ 20 ] for isomerisation reactions in small molecules involving severe restrictions , and at the lower limits ( 1.9 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for A-U on A-U stacking ) with entropy changes in the melting of organic crystals [ 6 ] that are held together by weak intermolecular interactions . |
| 27 | Re-reading the paper which formed the background to this presentation , I am struck most of all by the difficulties there are in moving from a statement in critique — containing arguments about the weaknesses in our current models of design understanding , such as our failure to be able to define satisfactorily either design phenomena or design activity or to assert powerfully enough , and at the right levels , design 's wider social significance — to positive statements ; to being able to say this is the phenomena with which design is concerned , this is the nature of design activity , this , therefore , is the significance of design — epistemologically , socially , and practically . |
| 28 | She was , daily , amazed at herself , at her self-control ; and at the terrible demons which fed upon her , and in doing so , she realised , fed her . |
| 29 | Four thirty in the morning and at the Joint Forces Airbase in Mombasa in Kenya , the airmen of RAF Lyneham load another batch of food onto one of their Hercules transport planes . |
| 30 | ‘ I will be at Atlanta in 1996 and at the 2000 Games , still chasing the gold . ’ |