Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 2 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 3 | These are not things much taught at the 14th-century Sorbonne . |
| 4 | Ms Davis is highly regarded at the Metropolitan Police 's forensic science laboratory . |
| 5 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 6 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 7 | The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority . |
| 8 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 9 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 10 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 11 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 12 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 13 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 14 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 15 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 16 | As it was , Eden was perhaps helped at the ensuing East–West negotiations by Soviet uncertainty and worries over American intentions , not least because of their awareness of the continuing nuclear superiority of the United States . |
| 17 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 18 | But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase , perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot . |
| 19 | Miguel finished tuning the guitar and turned to look at her , obviously perturbed at the sudden anger in her voice . |
| 20 | erm there was a time , for instance , when we had members of parliament who were gentlemen of means , perhaps , and who did not need to draw salaries , erm and it was erm perhaps a gentleman amateur job , but it 's all changed totally now and now we recognise that erm to be a national politician is a career and erm it is a career which is perhaps rewarded at the going rate . |
| 21 | The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs . |
| 22 | While the glucose dependent insulin release was reduced by treatment with 5 and 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A for eight days , the cholecystokinin-8 stimulated amylase secretion was only impaired at the higher dose of 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A. Insulin promotes the synthesis of amylase by a direct effect on exocrine pancreatic cells via the insuloacinar axis . |
| 23 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 24 | Girls do not gain the same level of formal qualifications as do boys , and the gap is especially marked at the upper levels of education , in the universities . |
| 25 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 26 | How awfully dull it would be if all our teachers approached a class in exactly the same way , with exactly the same movements , all executed at the same pace and with expectations of the same rigid standard of achievement . |
| 27 | As far as the hunger and satiety sensations ( Table ) were concerned , a significant difference was only observed at the sixth hour with hunger being significantly more marked under placebo than under psyllium ( 73 ( 6 ) v 54 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) and satiety more prolonged under psyllium than under placebo ( 44 ( 7 ) v 21 ( 6 ) , p=0.05 ) . |
| 28 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 29 | Thus was a sense of community fostered between neighbouring towns and villages , the impact of the disco being stubbornly resisted at the same time . |
| 30 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |