Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These are not things much taught at the 14th-century Sorbonne . |
| 3 | Ms Davis is highly regarded at the Metropolitan Police 's forensic science laboratory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such analyses are only performed at the lowest level when the areas of uncertainty have been reduced and refined . |
| 12 | But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase , perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot . |
| 13 | Miguel finished tuning the guitar and turned to look at her , obviously perturbed at the sudden anger in her voice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The players all played at the same time , and they were always arguing and fighting for hedgehogs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 22 | Thus was a sense of community fostered between neighbouring towns and villages , the impact of the disco being stubbornly resisted at the same time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The brn-1 and brn-2 POU domain RNAs are highly expressed at the neural tube stage during forebrain development and are widely present in the adult brain . |
| 25 | Police have said the men were not necessarily killed at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 27 | All at once she began to laugh , and her anger , never very swiftly roused at the best of times , left her entirely . |
| 28 | Significantly no places within 10 miles of London were contacted about the convention and a delegation from the old Anti-Slavery Society was only suggested at the last moment . |
| 29 | Rowntree 's poverty line was drawn up , however , on the assumption that food was ‘ all purchased at the lowest current prices . |
| 30 | The group also organised more seminars last year , all held at the Chartered Institute of Transport , free to TSUG members , and covering a wide range of topics . |