Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 2 | band A , B or C in four approved subjects at the Higher grade , or |
| 3 | band A , B or C in three subjects at the Higher grade , together with either band A , B or C in two subjects at the Standard grade&sup4 ; or grades 1 , 2 or 3 in two subjects at the Ordinary grade&sup4 ; . |
| 4 | Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized . |
| 5 | The leg raises are done the opposite way round , with the feet at the lower end of the incline bench . |
| 6 | Even where prices could be raised to offset the wage increases , aggregate profits would still fall eventually if credit was not extended fast enough to allow the sale of the same volume of commodities at the higher price level . |
| 7 | At £15,000 per annum per patient in 1982 the hospitals were 40 per cent more expensive in running costs than asylums at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 8 | The record , many copies of which still turn up among the ditches and hedgerows at the leafier end of Whaddon , portrayed a hope and optimism belied by bailiffs at the turnstiles , and its hummability led players and supporters to see the coming season and decade as the dawning of a new age . |
| 9 | For a later trial lower and upper points were chosen on the ad hoc basis that ‘ an approximation to the subject was visible ’ ( though interfered with by black areas at the lower exposure and white areas at the upper end ) . |
| 10 | The level at which stamp duty is imposed has been lifted to £60,000 , which should save homebuyers at the lower end of the market an average £600 . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you know , of course , that most people used to break their boiled eggs at the larger end . |
| 12 | As many as eleven thousand people have been killed because they refused to break their eggs at the smaller end . |
| 13 | In that case the court has a discretion ( in order to avoid injustice ) to award damages at the higher level of £750 ( i.e. by reference to the market price at July 15 instead of the later contract delivery date of December 1 ) , Johnson v. Agnew ( 1979 H.L. ) . |
| 14 | The White Paper recognised that unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants to force them out of the property , which could then be let to new tenants at the higher market rent , and in an effort to prevent this , the harassment provisions of the 1977 Protection from Eviction Act were strengthened and a new right of compensation — civil law damages-was introduced in cases of unlawful eviction . |
| 15 | The five surviving freeholders included the dean of Windsor , Robert Dormer of Wing , who was one of the richest landowners in the county , and a lady who was principal proprietor of the hamlet of Horton in Ivinghoe , not the kind of tenants to yield to pressure to sell out , if pressure there was : most of the small landed families of 1522 were still there as customary tenants at the later date . |
| 16 | It 's much easier to get a good sound , too — far easier than on the smaller amps and combos at the lower end of the market . |
| 17 | The writer 's research suggests that in some cases arts advisers ' posts have been replaced by positions at the lower status level of ‘ professional development teacher ’ . |
| 18 | The colour , as with the Scarlet Ibis , originates from blue-green algae at the lower end of the food chain . |
| 19 | Note : If you lower the pitch attitude too rapidly — before the speed has time to increase — then you will lose height since the lower speeds do not produce enough lift to maintain height with the wings at the lower angle of attack in the normal cruise level flight attitude . |
| 20 | The outcome has been the imposition of more sentences at the higher end of the punishment tariff over and above the changes in the volume of crime . |
| 21 | Differences at the lower end of the scale are obscured by the massive differences at the top end . |
| 22 | Speaking at the annual general meeting of the British Association of Mountain Guides at the Ulswater Hotel , Collister lamented the way guides in the alps had over equipped routes for their own convenience at the expense of the clients share in the adventure . |
| 23 | Shareholders who are not liable to tax will be paid the tax credit on dividends at the lower rate of 20 per cent . |
| 24 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
| 25 | Cement was loaded into barges via chutes which had shutters at the lower end . |
| 26 | In 1836 he joined James Nasmyth [ q.v. ] as a partner with responsibility for commercial and financial operations at the Bridgewater foundry at Patricroft near Manchester . |
| 27 | There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies . |
| 28 | Beats at the second level are stronger beats which alternate with the weaker beats at the lower level . |
| 29 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
| 30 | Workers at Leyland in Lancashire voted four-to-one on Friday against taking action but employees at the smaller axle production plant in Glasgow backed a strike by two-to-one . |