Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Modern meteoric precipitations and regional ground waters at equivalent high latitudes have lighter isotope signatures O. Palaeotemperatures calculated from O of the meteoric concretion cements and vein-fills suggest mean annual air temperatures of 10°C . |
2 | Title to the property is and has at all material times been registered at H.M. |
3 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
4 | Our nation 's annual deficit budget now stands at fifty million pounds . |
5 | This aims to reduce the mounting flood of household refuse , which currently stands at 70 million tonnes a year . |
6 | The body of the film looks at four young engineers . |
7 | Oliver Lange looks at four different types of exhibitions and points out their advantages and disadvantages |
8 | This probably calls for a basic two-part structure , with part one detailing your assumptions , deductions and conclusions , and giving your analysis of the problems , while part two looks at possible alternative courses of action and spells out your ‘ solution ’ . |
9 | In assessing the suitability of the proposed operating centre , the LA looks at two connected aspects . |
10 | Jane Wallace looks at two common problems which will be experienced with most horses at some stage or other : shying and pulling . |
11 | Peter Cracknell looks at two luxury models from manufacturers with proven track records : the Peugeot 605 SVi and the Volvo 940 SE |
12 | Other treatments adopt an over-simple solution to the problem , always preferring one source to another ; thus the algorithm of Hobbs ( 1976 ) looks at all intrasentential candidates before earlier sentences are considered at all , while Brennan , Friedman & Pollard ( 1987 ) prefer all candidates from the most recent sentence to ones from the current sentence . |
13 | The kit looks at basic scientific principles as applied to farming . |
14 | Inserted into this issue of the magazine is the series of talks which has been organised as part of the supportive programme for the exhibition and looks at both individual aspects of printmaking , as well as at business and marketing side of prints . |
15 | As in the other chapters , this chapter looks at three broad approaches to explaining the growth of government . |
16 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
17 | The second part of the chapter looks at these new arrangements and the issues they raise in more detail . |
18 | This book looks at these two divisions — masculinity/femininity and arts/science — and examines the interaction between them in higher education ; it regards the terms as social constructions , not as givens . |
19 | Linda Fraser looks at some older traditions and newer trends in rearing and preparing this popular meat . |
20 | Two hundred pounds , it 's a good one , double decker with all sorts of , and then adds a forty five per cent mark up on it , so it starts at two hundred pounds , then adds |
21 | He is ‘ loyal only to Nature in a vague way ’ ; he reads obscene books and then worries at frequent seminal emissions . |
22 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
23 | Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) . |
24 | ‘ Delay in the conduct of civil proceedings occurs at three main stages , namely : ( i ) before proceedings are commenced ; ( ii ) between the commencement of proceedings and the point where the case is either settled or is ready for trial ; and ( iii ) between readiness for trial and the trial itself . ’ |
25 | Peter Lynn , the New Zealander who features at many international festivals , in action on his buggy towed by a ‘ Peel ’ kite at Weymouth . |
26 | Sunday 's the only day off and he wakes at 4:30 most mornings … |
27 | The pound opens at 2.7800 German marks — perilously close to its floor of 2.7780 . |
28 | I mean players we flogged during the height of their career , whom by rights we should not care about anymore , but who tugs at those little heartstrings still … |
29 | The Past Now Future exercise assists villagers to look more deeply into the problems they are facing and asks them , as a group , to look along the three time frames at ten agreed areas . |
30 | It operates through military attaches at overseas diplomatic missions and also runs its own network of spies such as , for example , the Portland spy ring , which are quite separate from the KGB . |