Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cash and Co stand at the very heart of country 's embrace of the western myth of rugged individualism . |
| 2 | Parallel processor assessment at the National Physical Laboratory |
| 3 | By briefly touching the metal tip on a germanium crystal , moving the tip to another part of the crystal and then applying a large voltage , they placed a single germanium atom at the new spot . |
| 4 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 5 | Julian Davidson , 30 , unmarried , and a consultant in design , printing and advertising , was selected from a short-list of three , which included a former Treasury minister , John Maples , who lost his Lewisham West seat at the last general election . |
| 6 | The comparison can be made visually in Figure 1.2 , which allocates equal space on the page to each constituency , Figure 1.2A for unemployment , and in Figure 1.2B for the 1987 election result at the same time . |
| 7 | He was educated at Ratoath National School , county Meath , and trained as a teaching monitor at the Central Model Schools of the Board of National Education , Marlborough Street , Dublin . |
| 8 | The onshore aspect will consist of three days field break at the nearest ‘ live ’ training venue [ for example a suitably equipped local college ] , to practice skills . |
| 9 | Nicky had ( and for all I know still has ) the reputation of being the best criminal defence lawyer at the Scottish bar and had on several occasions persuaded juries to acquit those whom he had every reason to believe were guilty . |
| 10 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 11 | Prompts and options are on a ‘ loop ’ : eg tapping the ( Right ) direction key at the last prompt takes the cursor back to the first . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |
| 13 | Murwa , formerly deputy defence adviser at the Nigerian embassy in Washington , replaced Col. Mohammed Maina . |
| 14 | She remembered that Bridget had put a couple of bottles of white in the freezer compartment at the last minute . |
| 15 | This time he was putting his heart into playing an angel in a Nativity play at the local church . |
| 16 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 17 | The walk starts at the car park at the eastern end of Loch Affric from where you drop down the track to the bridge over the river flowing out of the loch . |
| 18 | Some members of the jury wept as they returned their murder verdict at the Old Bailey in March 1988 . |
| 19 | ‘ Concurrent validity ’ ( C3 ) is the agreement between the test scores and some criterion measure at the same point in time , while ‘ predictive validity ’ ( P ) refers to the agreement between test scores and some criterion measure obtained sometime later . |
| 20 | For the latest in organic gardening join the Henry Doubleday Research Association at the National Centre for Organic Gardening , Ryton-on-Dunsmore , Coventry , CV8 3LG . |
| 21 | He is happy to receive fan mail at the following address : . |
| 22 | He is desperate to receive fan mail at the following address : Please do not enclose an SAE for a reply as Old Fishfinger 's dictionary is a few letters short of an alphabet . |
| 23 | IT was a big mistake bordering on the huge ( and which movie is that from ? ) to suggest that there was only one North-East recipient at the annual awards of the British Association of Film and Television Arts . |
| 24 | These two delightful little resorts are spread round a picturesque old fishing harbour at the southern end of Lake Garda . |
| 25 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 26 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
| 27 | At censuses before the Second World War , men outnumbered women in the paid workforce by more than two to one , by the mid-1980s the ratio approaches even numbers with women accounting for 40 per cent of the labour force at the 1981 census and , in 1987 , 45 per cent of employees in employment . |
| 28 | Even when the soil is virtually dry , spadefoot toads can remain underground for prolonged periods by maintaining their blood concentration at the correct level . |
| 29 | It is best to get some ring practice at the smaller classes and match meetings and iron out all problems ready for the big day when you go to a Championship Show . |
| 30 | The immense task of gathering , analysing and confirming allegations of human rights violations from around the world falls to the Research Department at the International Secretariat , Amnesty 's headquarters in London . |