Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , sit down and let's all have a beer , ’ she said , and with a look at Dr Reid added , ‘ It 's better for you than that rotgut at the bar . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , another reason why I ca n't give you the whole story of course is because then there 'd be no reason to take this baby rather than this baby at the hospital , you know , so their histories are exactly identical , I E nil , erm , nothing individuates them on that account . |
| 4 | The when was important — the hurricane was a more accessible ally than either Caspar at the US Embassy or Steve back in Washington with his promise of the heavy brigade . |
| 5 | She said , well mine , she said would be further than sixty pound at the end , a hundred and twenty at the end of the quarter , but she said oh this time it 's gon na be about a hundred sixty so it 's crippling me living here ! |
| 6 | He achieved the rare distinction of being equally famous in more than one field at the same time . |
| 7 | The encounter had lasted no longer than one minute at the outside , yet she took away with her a vivid memory of that thin handsome face , with its grimly set lips and smouldering brown eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ More than one person at the event was surprised at the comment but it provides a neat balance to the government 's best wishes for my retirement ’ , he says . |
| 9 | Now it is rare for a centre-forward to skipper a side ( and I do n't think that has happened on more than one occasion at the Palace since ) so that only an exceptional player would do so . |
| 10 | It 's an extremely useful accessory if you 're working on more than one job at the same time in different places , so that the tools you need are always with you — and it 's invaluable for working from ladders or scaffolding . |
| 11 | Er now William of course was on more than one term at the end . |
| 12 | In the latter it is common to find small classes sharing a classroom , sometimes with a single teacher , sometimes with more than one but nearly always seated as a separate group with their own ‘ territory ’ and blackboard , for there exists a strange orthodoxy that a teacher with modest education and training ‘ can not be taught to handle more than one class at the same time ’ . |
| 13 | Once you have set up your programs ready to run from within the DOS shell , you can take advantage of DOS 5 's ability to run more than one program at the same time . |
| 14 | To open more than one application at the same time you must first enable the task swapper . |
| 15 | Various common reactions which are associated with exposure to odours have been identified and include physiological , toxic , psychological , annoyance and social reactions , many people experiencing more than one reaction at the same time . |
| 16 | The acquisition more than doubled turnover at the subsidiary , helped by cost savings resulting from the closure of Kode Computers administrative office in Swindon and the subsequent absorption of operations into DCM 's offices in Hitchin . |
| 17 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
| 18 | It made no forecast for its business this year , but given the state of the German economy , it is likely to be worse than last year at the operating level . |
| 19 | I was n't sure if that girl at the reception desk understood my message when I asked you to phone me . |
| 20 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 21 | The implication is that if effective democracy at the enterprise level depends on the existence of relatively small units , there may be a case for dismantling large-scale capitalist enterprises . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a clause of the kind described above offers management little protection should the investor come under unexpected pressure to realise some of its investments early , or if new management at the institution believes that the company does not fit well into its portfolio . |
| 23 | However , it is questionable whether this recantation at the level of economic theory provides the clue as to the practical reasons why the road to the high inflation of the 1970s was littered with the wrecks of attempts at incomes policies . |
| 24 | After elementary education at the village school in Cottisford she became , at the age of fourteen , an unofficial post-office counter clerk in the Oxfordshire village of Fringford . |
| 25 | 2.9 " Interest " means interest during the period from the date on which the payment is due to the date of payment both before and after any judgment at the Interest Rate then prevailing or should the base rate referred to in clause 1.8 cease to exist such other rate of interest as is most closely comparable with the Interest Rate to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by the Accountant acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator |
| 26 | When Cam Renton , central character of that book , joins the Langdale as junior apprentice at the age of sixteen he has already served a year of his training and is disillusioned about the whole process . |
| 27 | The fiction I had read predicted gaudy roles for me — as private tutor at the old stone mansion where peacocks roost in the yew hedges and chalky bones are discovered in the sealed-up priest 's hole ; as gullible ingénu at an eccentric private establishment on the Welsh borders stuffed with robust drunkards and covert lechers . |
| 28 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 29 | As regional policy at the national and EC level has evolved over the years , in order to ensure that national assistance does not conflict with the pursuit of competition and free trade , the EC has defined criteria for determining aid eligibility ( usually on the basis of GDP per capita and/or unemployment rates ) . |
| 30 | The nucleus contains an autonomous phosphoinositide signalling system every bit as complex as that present at the plasma membrane . |