Example sentences of "[vb -s] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
2 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the company has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the [ administrator or liquidator ] may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
3 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the company has at a relevant time … given a preference to any person , the [ administrator or liquidator ] may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
4 | ‘ ( 1 ) … where an individual is adjudged bankrupt and he has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
5 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
6 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
7 | CONFIDENCE in the housing market stands at a 15-month high , according to a Gallup report published today . |
8 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
9 | The number of plastic cards in circulation has risen from less than 10 million 10 years ago to 27 million today , while the total bank lending on cards — which in January 1980 stood at £934 million — currently stands at a massive £6.6 billion . |
10 | The policing of Northern Ireland therefore stands at a tense crossroads . |
11 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
12 | On the positive side , it says that the company 's financial condition remains strong , with about $150m of cash and long-term investments at 1992 year end , and $112m of debt , and a debt-to-equity ratio that stands at a conservative 13% . |
13 | If digit 4 develops at a high concentration , digit 3 at an intermediate concentration , and digit 2 at the lowest concentration , then one can visualize how both the normal and mirror-image patterns arise . |
14 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
15 | The Select Committee 's examination of the four options which looks at a wide range of technical , economic , social and environmental factors and recommends the government to choose the Channel Tunnel Group proposal . |
16 | The report also looks at a wide variety of other Scottish buildings which have been allowed to deteriorate or may be destroyed by development . |
17 | As Eurodisney opens in France , and the Minister of Culture Jack Lang is elevated yet higher by President Mitterrand , Michael Ignatieff looks at a stinging attack on French cultural politics |
18 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
19 | Brian Edwards looks at a handsome solution in central Glasgow — the Eagle Building |
20 | That sort of language encouraged the many resentments Americans harbour against high culture ( remember the disparagement of Adlai Stevenson as an ‘ egghead ’ ? ) and led to such curiosae as the Chicago attack on an Eric Fischl painting in which a fully clothed boy looks at a naked man swinging a bat . |
21 | Football : Roxburgh has the flak flying : Don Lindsay looks at a buck-stopping inquest into a hiccup in Paris |
22 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
23 | The third looks at a different way of providing collective security , and centres on friendly societies bidding for the social security work the Government intends handing over to agencies , or hospitals opting for trust status within the NHS . |
24 | ‘ MEETING JESUS ’ by Leighton Ford contains 13 studies each of which looks at a different aspect of who Jesus is . |
25 | He looks at a wooden fence , a section of which was ripped away when the dead man fell back with the bullet in his heart , and he suggests what must have happened . |
26 | He 's been granted bail , provided he lives at a secret address . |
27 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
28 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
29 | The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market . |
30 | As Cixous suggests , the mode of knowledge as a politics of arrogation pivots at a theoretical level on the dialectic of the same and the other . |