Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can confirm that stories about meetings at the party-political level are pure invention . |
| 2 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 3 | The keynote speeches will include ‘ a high-level official from the Commission ’ , currently being finalised , along with Nobel prize winner Dr Arno Penzais , vice president of research at AT&T Bell Labs , Doug Michels of the Santa Cruz Operation , Roel Pieper of Unix System Laboratories and Charles Reilly , vice president for operations at the Open Software Foundation . |
| 4 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 5 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 6 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 7 | Lully composed the majority of his ballets between 1654 and 1671 for performances at the French court . |
| 8 | Moreover , combinations of factors can conspire to turn vertical effects into horizontal effects , for example the combination of vertical linkages and the necessity for licences at the retail stage ( as in the supply of beer ) . |
| 9 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 10 | This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times . |
| 11 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 12 | The arrangement of molecules at the potential energy maximum is known as the ‘ activated complex ’ . |
| 13 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 14 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 15 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 16 | deputy director of operations at the Royal Botanical Gardens , Kew , came to Rennie House Conference Centre on April 5 . |
| 17 | While there was much talk of objects at the Common Open Software Environment initiative roll-out , firms associated with the effort do not yet seem to have decided if or how this playing field can be levelled , or whether basic object functionality is to be used to gain competitive advantage . |
| 18 | Your item on surveys of personnel at the British nuclear weapons tests ( This Week 27 January , p 219 ) is seriously misleading and in at least one respect factually incorrect . |
| 19 | One would not try to explain the flight of birds at the molecular level , whereas that level is most appropriate if we wish to understand how muscles contract . |
| 20 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |
| 21 | Research on interests in local politics , and research on the " third world " of groups at the national level with only limited and sporadic access to government , has revealed a picture of the interest-group world starkly at odds with the rosy optimism of the pluralist perspective . |
| 22 | The formation of varices at the mucocutaneous junctions of small or large bowel stomas in patients with portal hypertension can be a source of massive or recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 23 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 24 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 25 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 26 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 27 | The system is supposed to be organized hierarchically , so that the properties of the information processing units , presumably single cells , at one stage are due to the convergence of inputs from a number of units at the previous level . |
| 28 | No one disputes that the Tribune Company , publisher of the Chicago Tribune among other papers , had to do something about the decade-long trickle of losses at the Daily News , America 's oldest tabloid and New York 's largest-circulation newspaper . |
| 29 | The best case in point , of course , is the quadrupling of funds at the National Cancer Institute following Richard Nixon 's declaration of the ‘ war on cancer ’ . |
| 30 | Founded in 1860 by a group of railwaymen at the Eastern Counties Railway works at Stratford , it had progressed steadily , in part through amalgamation with smaller societies at Canning Town in 1882 , Plaistow in 1883 and Beckton in 1892 , all of which centred on colonies of skilled and semiskilled labour ( Marriott 1984 ) . |