Example sentences of "[coord] at a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two main types : ( i ) Operations Research models , which are an abstraction of real systems or processes which are used to represent the basic variable and constant features of the reality , so that its behaviour or process can be explored , explained and simulated ; ( ii ) Macroeconomic and econometric models which may be used at a company level , or at a more general industry or economy level . |
| 2 | In other words , the intervention of consciousness in either a developed form ( Wigner 's friend ) or at a more rudimentary level ( Schrödinger 's cat ) seems to provide the latest link in the chain at which the matter could be settled . |
| 3 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 4 | My purpose rather is to discuss the underlying issues in general terms and at a somewhat philosophic level . |
| 5 | But his performance in the 1982–3 campaign was phenomenal , for not only was he producing winners in quantity and at a very high strike rate , he was also winning big races : before the Gold Cup , Bregawn had won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury , Silver Buck the Edward Hanmer Memorial Chase at Haydock Park , Captain John the SGB Handicap Chase at Ascot , Wayward Lad the King George VI Chase and Ashley House the Peter Marsh Handicap Chase at Haydock . |
| 6 | Young children have a very real need to place themselves in time and in a wider social context , and at a very basic level they need to explore the past before they were born and to begin to share the collective human memory . |
| 7 | The second bullet was fired from close to where Doyle was lying , and at a very steep angle . |
| 8 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan gives you real financial security when you or a member of your family are hospitalised — and at a very affordable premium . |
| 9 | It was that simple , and at a more leisurely pace would have been less of a caper and more a proper holiday . |
| 10 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 11 | Many of the famous capitals , decorated by animals , biblical scenes , demons , etc. , have been removed for safety from the vibration of the bells to an upstairs museum where they can be studied at leisure and at a more accessible height . |
| 12 | ( 1982 ) , and at a more introductory level by Watts ( 1981 ) , but unfortunately these treatments focus on offshore subsidence rather than uplift inland . |
| 13 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 14 | These same steps can be taken again with less apprehension and at a more studied pace under the guidance of a sponsor in the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 15 | The second is related and is a question of ideology , and at a more applied level , one of politics — whether environmental deterioration matters depends not only on proof but also on one 's view of social change and development . |
| 16 | We therefore need to explore further , and at a more detailed level , what relation can be identified , within a given cultural and institutional milieu , between technology , work organisation , and people 's experience of work . |
| 17 | Fairy stories too , and at a more sophisticated level plays like Shakespeare 's " A Midsummer Night 's Dream " , can be helpful in raising the question of whether appearances are real or imaginary . |
| 18 | Half of these children belong to the families of the unemployed , and many belong to families who have work but at a desperately low rate of pay . |
| 19 | I would n't describe Rattle 's treatment as in any way unfeeling , merely that the various strands are shaped and honed with an unusual sensitivity to detail but at a relatively low emotional temperature . |
| 20 | Final-year units also treat general theoretical and practical concerns but at a more advanced level , and in a more concentrated manner . |
| 21 | Colours still advance and recede , spaces open and close ; they even appear to cross or curve majestically into one 's visual field , but at a more languorous pace . |
| 22 | This would show , on 1991 figures , but at a more realistic 70% than the 78.6% , a low of £15,143 net profit . |
| 23 | But at a more fundamental level the model predicts a profit on rail freight on the smallest railway network ( of 2600 kilometres ) when none of the major railway freight generators is linked to the network . |
| 24 | These broad comparisons do conceal some interesting short-term changes which I will come back to , but at a very general level Japanese manufacturing industry is twice as dependent on the contribution of small firms than other leading members of the OECD . |
| 25 | Working , therefore , comes first , although great strides forward have been made in conformation or beauty points , but at a very controlled level . |
| 26 | The 3.4-kb mRNA is expressed in skin of mice homozygous or hemizygous for the original p mutation , but at a very reduced level ( Fig. 2 a , lanes 11 and 12 ) , consistent with genetic data indicating that p is a low activity rather than a null mutation . |