Example sentences of "[coord] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 2 | These kind of skills are not rewarded in school , where memory is more important , or at the lower levels of organisation . |
| 3 | Almost half of Shrewsbury has Welsh blood , or at the least friends in Wales . |
| 4 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 5 | The satellite 's primary role is to fill in the existing picture of the heavens , revealing stars , galaxies , clouds and so on that are not seen at the shorter optical and ‘ near ’ infrared wavelengths ( less than 5 micrometres ) , or at the longer wavelengths observed by radio telescopes . |
| 6 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 7 | There had been concern that ETA might seek to strike at the Expo 92 Universal Exhibition in Seville , held from April 20 to Oct. 12 , or at the Olympic Games in Barcelona ( July 25-Aug. 9 ) . |
| 8 | the social worker at the hospital or at the Social Services Department will help the family make plans if necessary |
| 9 | As a result there was no informed discussion within the department or at the Social Services Committee about resource issues and the status of the recommendations remained vague . |
| 10 | This initial contact can then be followed up through subsequent casual encounters in the street or at the local shops , and through an invitation to a coffee-chat or meal to meet other neighbours . |
| 11 | Despite the relatively large range of experimental exothermicities , enthalpy and entropy work in a compensating manner to give free energies for single strand helix formation that are generally close to zero at 300 K. Free energy costs per rotor in double stranded DNA and RNA are consistent with these limiting values ; large stacking exothermicities result in a large cost in free energy for restricting a rotation that , in the upper limit ( 5.4 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for G-C on C-G stacking ) , bears comparison with the values reported by Page & Jencks [ 20 ] for isomerisation reactions in small molecules involving severe restrictions , and at the lower limits ( 1.9 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for A-U on A-U stacking ) with entropy changes in the melting of organic crystals [ 6 ] that are held together by weak intermolecular interactions . |
| 12 | Re-reading the paper which formed the background to this presentation , I am struck most of all by the difficulties there are in moving from a statement in critique — containing arguments about the weaknesses in our current models of design understanding , such as our failure to be able to define satisfactorily either design phenomena or design activity or to assert powerfully enough , and at the right levels , design 's wider social significance — to positive statements ; to being able to say this is the phenomena with which design is concerned , this is the nature of design activity , this , therefore , is the significance of design — epistemologically , socially , and practically . |
| 13 | She was , daily , amazed at herself , at her self-control ; and at the terrible demons which fed upon her , and in doing so , she realised , fed her . |
| 14 | Four thirty in the morning and at the Joint Forces Airbase in Mombasa in Kenya , the airmen of RAF Lyneham load another batch of food onto one of their Hercules transport planes . |
| 15 | ‘ I will be at Atlanta in 1996 and at the 2000 Games , still chasing the gold . ’ |
| 16 | He looked at Kraal , who called out in loss and anger , and at the other eagles up and down the Cages , as if somewhere there there might be some help . |
| 17 | We have to look at the determination of content within each subject , and at the various statuses of separate ‘ subjects ’ across the curriculum , to unpack any masculinist domination in the framing of school knowledge . |
| 18 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 19 | Although the rapid decline of the church courts into virtual desuetude over the eighteenth century removed the only institutional form of church control over the moral behaviour of the lower orders , they could hardly be unaware of the continuing power of the parson operating both through the vestry and through areas of personal control such as that over charity and at the vital moments of baptism , marriage and burial . |
| 20 | When he peered into his mirror he saw himself already a little stooped in the shoulders , a little heavy in the body , the full cheeks beginning to hang , their old ruddy colour grown muddy and pale , strands of grey in the short , forked beard and at the high temples , and above all , that permanent , aching double pleat between the long , thin brows , scored a little deeper every day . |
| 21 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 22 | They buy their inventories of raw materials at the same times and at the same prices . |
| 23 | It would be exactly similar to a bank loan , to be undertaken on the same terms , and at the same rates of interest — if you are agreeable ? ’ |
| 24 | There we shall look at the functions and services supplied by each and at the significant features of their balance sheets . |
| 25 | We were able to develop a scheme in association with people we knew at Birmingham and at Aston and at the Open Universities , whereby students could meet their fourth year dissertation requirements by working in association with publicly funded research and development projects . |
| 26 | The Department has facilities available at the School and at the playing fields at Goldenacre . |
| 27 | Consequently he is shown as the Chief Lector and narrator of the drama and at the yearly performances of the play was impersonated by a priest . |
| 28 | In this section I want to look more generally at the ways in which arts and science are associated with ideas about gender and at the social implications of the differences between arts and science . |
| 29 | We have looked at some of the types of jobs involved in retailing , and at the different sorts of shops you might work in . |
| 30 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |