Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was of an age and class that still swilled the dregs of colonialism at two in the morning , and the fact this man had black blood in him ( and , he guessed , much else besides ) counted as another mark against Chant 's judgement . |
| 2 | ‘ DIRECTIONAL characteristics of atmospherics at high frequency ’ runs the title of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers just 50 years ago . |
| 3 | It remains , however , to be considered whether it would be possible to simulate the characteristics of nationhood at federal level by establishing there the appropriate mechanisms . |
| 4 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 5 | The Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 , section 7 penalises the same sorts of behaviour at any burial under the Act ( burials without Church of England rites ) . |
| 6 | THERE were all sorts of celebrities at this year 's Hong Kong Sevens , ranging from Miss South Africa to Roger Moore . |
| 7 | The Senate recently estimated the number commuting daily into the west from east Berlin and nearby districts of Brandenburg at 50,000 to 60,000 . |
| 8 | The first arena , shenandoah stables , showed soil concentrations of dioxin at 33 000 parts per billion ( PPB ) , by far the highest concentration found . |
| 9 | A downstream firm may wish to integrate grate backwards despite the scale economies in order to value ( shadow price ) additional units of input at marginal cost . |
| 10 | Sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness at British ports — which have already included an attack on a Russian trawler at Peterhead — are likely to intensify as fishermen step up their protests against the imports they blame for prices plummeting at the quayside . |
| 11 | Also present , and hoping to apply for membership in due course , were representatives from the Shoreham Aviation Heritage Trust , who have been given 75 acres of land at historic Shoreham Airport to develop into a museum . |
| 12 | A beam from a favourably located pulsar can illuminate the Earth once per cycle and this behaviour is detected , usually with radio-telescopes , as pulses of radiation at regular intervals . |
| 13 | The development of the Child Care Strategy in Department X , described in our feasibility study , illustrates aspects of work at this level . |
| 14 | The factory , too , is not solely a technical institution , it is a social organisation , influenced by political , social and economic aspects of society at large . |
| 15 | What effects disturbances on the spiritual plane may have on our mental , emotional or physical well-being are more difficult to assess but it is not impossible that our view of ourselves as machines , with a denial of any spiritual aspect and a consequent loss of meaning in our lives , may be one cause of much of the unhappiness and frustration seen today with results as different as vandalism and cancer — aspects of destruction at one level or another . |
| 16 | Further verbal pictures of Wordsworth at this period may be found in Thomas De Quincey 's Recollections ; but 1805 may be considered as the end of his youth . |
| 17 | This auction is unusual as the deceased had quite a lot of paintings of cats — we normally have more pictures of dogs at this particular auction . |
| 18 | She read for a while , trying to close her mind to the sounds from the galley , the picture of Fen enjoying his supper and — simply — any pictures of Fen at all . |
| 19 | The traditional sowers of culture at middle provincial levels were the schoolteachers . |
| 20 | Ten minutes of stimulation at 100 volts in a system that operates on a millisecond timescale and deals in ion currents that generate a few thousandths of a volt is scarcely going to simulate what happens normally in the brain . |
| 21 | Embassies still went from Moscow to the states of Europe at irregular and often long intervals and stayed only briefly . |
| 22 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 23 | oh I do n't like the Darling Buds of May at all |
| 24 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 25 | Devise two alternative four-year plans for delivering the history programmes of study at Key Stage 2 , paying particular attention to links between the units . |
| 26 | Though most cases of conversion at common law fall within the categories of taking or abusing possession , such acts on the part of the defendant are not a necessary element in liability provided he has dealt with the goods in a way inconsistent with the plaintiff 's rights , such as signing a delivery order for goods which are delivered under that order . |
| 27 | Similarly We , Us , Our can refer to the protagonists in the poems but it can also describe the opinions or reactions of mankind at large ( 59 , 60 , 116 , 118 ) . |
| 28 | By the end of the war , cavity magnetrons were emitting up to 3.5 million watts of power at stable wavelengths . |
| 29 | She has to take account of the views of society at large . |
| 30 | I have had discussions with those people , collectively and individually , but even were the leaders prepared to make some concessions , the strongly held views of people at both ends of the spectrum are such that it would be exceedingly difficult to introduce a proposal to the House which hon. Members would accept could form the basis for coherent , workable and enforceable legislation . |