Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times . |
| 3 | There 's a wide range of products at a wide range of prices , and deciding which to go for can be a difficult decision … and an expensive one to get wrong . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The arrangement of molecules at the potential energy maximum is known as the ‘ activated complex ’ . |
| 6 | The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal . |
| 10 | deputy director of operations at the Royal Botanical Gardens , Kew , came to Rennie House Conference Centre on April 5 . |
| 11 | Culturally this interaction is crucial , for it defines the social relations of artists at a different level from that of most other kinds of production . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One would not try to explain the flight of birds at the molecular level , whereas that level is most appropriate if we wish to understand how muscles contract . |
| 16 | ‘ He even gave us a talk about his love of birds at the Tory Party Conference . |
| 17 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 18 | There is little , if any , analysis of why particular attitudes and behaviours have developed , of the ways in which cultures are related to and continuously reinforced by the wider structural position of particular groups ; the ways in which cultures can be a rational response to the social position of groups at a particular time . |
| 19 | With strict control over the internal movement of people inside Japan , and a strictly enforced system of social hierarchy , it is not difficult to see how the identity of groups at a local level might be maintained . |
| 20 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 21 | Research on interests in local politics , and research on the " third world " of groups at the national level with only limited and sporadic access to government , has revealed a picture of the interest-group world starkly at odds with the rosy optimism of the pluralist perspective . |
| 22 | The formation of varices at the mucocutaneous junctions of small or large bowel stomas in patients with portal hypertension can be a source of massive or recurrent haemorrhage . |
| 23 | Krauss observes another case of mass reproduction in Manet 's ‘ assembly line ’ style of the continued overpainting of a large number of canvases at the same time . |
| 24 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 25 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 26 | Second , the affirmation of the right was to ensure that the unification of different peoples was voluntary , part of a well-founded democracy and ensuring the equality of nations at a particular stage in Russian history , the bourgeois revolution . |
| 27 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 28 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 29 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 30 | The system is supposed to be organized hierarchically , so that the properties of the information processing units , presumably single cells , at one stage are due to the convergence of inputs from a number of units at the previous level . |