Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 2 | Research conducted at the Alister Hardy Research Centre suggests : a culturally mediated prejudice . |
| 3 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 4 | The problem of Sunday caddies was again aired but not to any effect , the committee believing it had to abide by the ‘ banning ’ decision made at the earlier bondholders meeting . |
| 5 | The scattered beam interferes at the photomultiplier with an attenuated beam direct from the laser to give beats , the frequency of which is a measure of the Doppler shift . |
| 6 | Implicit in this analysis is the view that Labour would have little scope for raising additional revenue by further increases in income tax directed at the better-off . |
| 7 | To some , for instance , the melody with its conjunct movement might suggest the beautifully expressive horn colour doubled at the lower octave by a bassoon . |
| 8 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 9 | It also wants the Government to look at the wider issue of what happens to British aid and credit going into Ghana . |
| 10 | Complete herringbone stitching at the lower part of side seams , above the mitres . |
| 11 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 12 | Fine roots grow very freely from the nodes where the root growth thickens at the lower nodes . |
| 13 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 14 | And the chairman added : ‘ While we will have to strengthen the squad to compete at the higher level , we are certainly not looking for a lot of new players . |
| 15 | The former is a groove or cavity which articulates with a convex process of the clypeus and the condyle is a rounded head adapted to fit into a socket placed at the lower end of the gena or postgena . |
| 16 | This distinction is crucial in the present context , because it appears that material resulting from endopeptidase cleavage is rather commonly encountered whereas material generated at the later stages ( Gly-extended and amidated products ) is less common . |