Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at [art] [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 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | Theory is no substitute for practical experience and this experience is often only bought at a high price . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase , perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot . |
| 12 | Miguel finished tuning the guitar and turned to look at her , obviously perturbed at the sudden anger in her voice . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 18 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |
| 19 | The Commission would have increased powers , including for the first time the power to propose legislation in the highly-sensitive area of home affairs on such issues as the right of asylum , immigration and residency rights ( hitherto discussed at an intergovernmental level in the " Trevi group " ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 22 | The investigating procedure is very naturally divided at an early stage into two aspects — the operational or operating circumstances in which the event occurred , and the examination of the aircraft remains . |
| 23 | Further publications followed , all aimed at a parliamentary audience : A Breviat of Some Proposals for the promoting of Industry ( 1679 ) , including wool as well as linen manufacture in the workhouse scheme ; A Method of Government for Such Publick Working Alms-Houses ( 1679 ) , proposing the union of small parishes for workhouse purposes and the election of ‘ delegates or overseers ’ by contributing parishes to oversee the new institutions ; and finally England 's Weal and Prosperity Proposed ( 1681 ) , a summary statement . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So far , there has been no review of the way in which the British procedures operate and what the consequences are should a pupil be wrongly failed at a particular level which employers may come to accept as appropriate for some jobs . |
| 26 | Briant put his hand in his inside jacket pocket and pulled out the folded sheet of paper that carried his statement , and , a little startled at the sudden wave of apprehension that swept over him , he stood up . |
| 27 | The functions of government were nominally divided between the centre and the republics , but all-union ministries , based exclusively in Moscow , produced 57 per cent of industrial output , union-republican ministries based partly in Moscow produced a further 37 per cent , and only 6 per cent of industry was wholly regulated at the republican level . |
| 28 | Marriage was introduced by an endearing Charlie Drake-ish master of ceremonies whose slapstick humour little hinted at the Ortonesque parody that followed as , to an adapted version of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 's An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise , Keith McIntyre assembled a three-dimensional Brechtian black and white tableau . |
| 29 | He hurries to the Male Staff toilet and finds Rupert Sutcliffe and Bob Busby already ensconced at the three-stall urinal . |
| 30 | The main forum was generally placed at the central cross-roads and round it were grouped the chief buildings of the town . |