Example sentences of "of [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dale Reid on the pace of play at the Belgian Open at Bercuit . |
| 2 | ‘ Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance , profits tax shall be charged for each year of assessment at the standard rate on every person carrying on a trade , profession or business in Hong Kong in respect of his assessable profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong for that year from such trade , profession or business ( excluding profits arising from the sale of capital assets ) as ascertained in accordance with this Part . |
| 3 | The problem is one of the continuing dominance of traditional models of assessment at the same time as trying to introduce other models based on quite different educational premises . |
| 4 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 5 | This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times . |
| 6 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 7 | The comparatively puny damages of £1,000 ( the cost of a dozen bottles of champagne at the expensive nightclub where the affair had begun ) and the public ridicule suffered by all parties may serve to remind editors of the wisdom of the adage that " dog does not eat dog in Fleet Street " . |
| 8 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 9 | The arrangement of molecules at the potential energy maximum is known as the ‘ activated complex ’ . |
| 10 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 11 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 12 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 13 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 14 | deputy director of operations at the Royal Botanical Gardens , Kew , came to Rennie House Conference Centre on April 5 . |
| 15 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 16 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 17 | The driving force behind the idea is the Cranfield Institute of Technology , which already supplies teaching and research for the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 18 | A YOUNG Coldstream Guardsman confined to a wheelchair by catastrophic injuries when an army vehicle driven by a comrade overturned in Cyprus , was awarded £1 million agreed damages against the Ministry of Defence at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 19 | The Monument to the Iron Duke overlooks the busy town of Wellington at the western end of the ridge , and there are small country houses and bird gardens to visit . |
| 20 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 21 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 22 | In the host mud , there was only a trace of PLTE at the minimum detectable limit and there was roughly a thousand times less PLDE than PLFA ( Table 1 ) . |
| 23 | While there was much talk of objects at the Common Open Software Environment initiative roll-out , firms associated with the effort do not yet seem to have decided if or how this playing field can be levelled , or whether basic object functionality is to be used to gain competitive advantage . |
| 24 | A smile can charm and delude us so that we accept even lies and insults — providing that they are accompanied by the expected flash of teeth at the same time ! |
| 25 | For examination of mucosal injury , the stomachs were excised , opened along the greater curvature , pinned flat on a board , and processed for assessment of damage at the gross , light , and scanning electron microscopic level . |
| 26 | When after the end of the 30 minute perfusion with ethanol ( 25% ) , the stomachs were perfused again with saline for 180 minutes , the extent of damage at the light microscopic level did not change compared with the damage measured immediately after ethanol administration ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 27 | In 1886 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal College of Science , London . |
| 28 | Eventually the bus load of children was dumped in the middle of Swindon at the main bus station . |
| 29 | It is , in my judgment , putting it too high to say that the interim relief claimed covering only five weeks before the main hearing , must be treated as pre-empting the court 's powers of decision at the eventual hearing . |
| 30 | Your item on surveys of personnel at the British nuclear weapons tests ( This Week 27 January , p 219 ) is seriously misleading and in at least one respect factually incorrect . |