Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try as she might , Rory could n't help but giggle at the ridiculous picture that conjured up in her mind 's eye . |
| 2 | His rescuer was smiling , pulling and pointing at the tartan plaid that had protected the young Highlander in his wanderings across eastern Europe . |
| 3 | Since immigrants from hot countries have settled here for generations , surviving the cold , icy blast , the hybrid ‘ English , ’ with the blood of many nations in their veins will not turn a hair at the cooler climate or the cooler neighbours . |
| 4 | And the seven days at the low dose and then I 'd like you to go onto the slightly higher dose , which is still a low dose , |
| 5 | Bearing this in mind , let us now look at the low brace and try to create the low brace paddle stroke from first principles . |
| 6 | On surfacing , the rate again speeds up , generally remaining at the higher level until the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled air has returned to normal — usually in a few seconds . |
| 7 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 8 | In the same way , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then in order to obtain Higher Rate Tax Relief , your spouse should enter into the covenant , or into a Joint Deed of Covenant with you , and he/she should actually make the covenant payments . |
| 9 | Similarly , if your spouse pays income tax at the higher rate and you pay tax at only the ( lower ) basic rate , then your spouse should make the Gift Aid payment in order to obtain the higher rate relief . |
| 10 | In Powys , £10.08 million was paid in 1982 on 66,900 cattle , 855,100 sheep at the higher rate and 420,100 sheep at the lower rate . |
| 11 | Of these claims , 1535 ( 77.2% ) were paid at the higher rate and 453 ( 22.8% ) at the lower rate paid for visits done by deputising services . |
| 12 | The starting point for each of them is to ascertain from the appropriate table of retail price indices covering the period between service of writ and trial what would have been the equivalent of those damages in the money of the day at the date of service of writ , reckoned in pounds sterling at the higher value that they then stood at at the very beginning of the period for which simple interest is to be given . |
| 13 | I did find with mine that the secret lay in a final row at the higher tension and that removing the weights was the answer to perfect transferring . |
| 14 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 15 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 16 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 17 | One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer . |
| 18 | Goals via the through ball are always hard to come by at the highest level because of the quality of defenders and the sweeper system . |
| 19 | Weekend talk of policy rifts at the highest level and of impending recession , and a perception that the Government is most reluctant to raise interest rates again , caused sterling to collapse to its lowest against the Deutschemark since the celebrated events of March last year . |
| 20 | It would be helpful to state this clearly at the highest level and work out a strategy to match the vision . |
| 21 | TREVOR FRANCIS spent the whole of his playing career at the highest level and is now making it clear he 's not going to drop those standards as a manager . |
| 22 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 23 | He has already sampled success at the highest level and after winning the Celebration Mile at Goodwood last Saturday on Swing Low he has his eyes firmly focused on more Group One events . |
| 24 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 25 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 26 | A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way . |
| 27 | Jess stuck out her tongue at the broad back and said in demure tones : ‘ No , but her is … no offence meant . ’ |
| 28 | I think we really have to look at the Dutch experience and |
| 29 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 30 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |