Example sentences of "at [adv] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 2 | Hip fracture patients who do not come home early tend to spend 30 days in hospital , at much greater cost to the taxpayer . |
| 3 | The company 's policy was to offer home relocation at basically zero cost to eligible individuals . |
| 4 | A line set at exactly right angles to the wind is rare , so you have to set about detecting which is the favoured end , three methods for this are shown in Fig 95 . |
| 5 | To set the bridle provisionally , lay the kite face down and , with a protractor , arrange the division of the two halves of the bridle so that what will become the top leg is at approximately 75 degrees to the rear face of the kite . |
| 6 | Er I I think that with three million people out of work , we have an unemployment problem which creates erm a a disadvantage group particularly in some of the stress urban areas where we have to look at more radical solutions to what is basically the payment of cash for nothing in return . |
| 7 | The adoral shields are short slightly larger than wide with the proximal edge at nearly right angles to the jaw : they do not separate the oral shields from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 8 | If you have to stand for a while at work or in a queue , it would be helpful to have one leg behind the other with the feet at about 45 degrees to each other . |
| 9 | Start with the switch at about 45 degrees to the horizontal and adjust as necessary . |
| 10 | Set it , not frontally , but at an angle onto the subject from a position alongside the camera , and aim it downwards at about forty-five degrees to the horizontal . |
| 11 | ‘ would permit the continued use of the design approaches using ‘ shared space ’ which have been hailed as being highly successful in environmental and aesthetic terms ; the short sightlines which form a natural part of the ‘ intimate spaces ’ created in these schemes would cease at really low speeds to be short compared with stopping distances , and hence would pose little threat . ’ |
| 12 | Banks which are strong in areas that typically produce long-standing relationships with customers sell at even higher multiples to book : investors pay two and a half times book value for Boston 's State Street and Chicago 's Northern Trust , for example , which specialise in trust services and asset management . |
| 13 | In real ( CPP ) terms , ICI 's sales have been flat throughout the period , at around 92 £12bn to 92 £15bn ; as have GEC 's real sales , at around half ICI 's level . |
| 14 | Their progress and welfare are closely monitored by a puppy walking supervisor who decides when a dog is ready for formal guide dog training — normally at around 10 months to one year old . |
| 15 | The new rate would be fixed at around 180 lei to the United States dollar , or midway between the official rate and the currency market floating rate . |
| 16 | The agreement required Iran to reduce its output from the current level estimated at around 3,800,000 bpd to 3,490,000 bpd , and Saudi Arabia to trim production slightly from 8,400,000 bpd to 8,390,000 bpd . |
| 17 | The fault element is fairly substantial , since the Lawrence definition refers to an obvious and serious risk of at least substantial damage to property : there will be few cases where only such damage , and no risk to personal safety , is involved ; moreover , as argued above , a major reason for having rules of the road which all drivers should know is to reduce the risk of injuries and deaths resulting . |
| 18 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 19 | In the ‘ particularly brutal ’ murder , the victim suffered at least 16 blows to her head from a lump hammer , Mr Kallisher told the jury of seven women and five men . |
| 20 | There are at least two answers to this question . |
| 21 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 22 | ( Kilvert paid at least two visits to France and Switzerland , but neither of these is covered by the diary : in 1878 he was also offered the English chaplaincy at Cannes , but refused it . ) |
| 23 | There were , however , at least two exceptions to the generality of this principle . |
| 24 | It allows you to double 10BaseT segments by adding a length of at least 100 meters to an existing segment . |
| 25 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 26 | We believe that at least partial answers to these questions will emerge later in this book — we shall certainly return to them — but a few brief comments are worth setting down before closing the present chapter . |
| 27 | Such efforts to engage with discourses on quality by means of notions like " taste " and " style " may be understood in terms of challenges issuing from the peripheries of the discipline , as well as beyond its boundaries , which called upon the leaders of English studies to provide an account of " literary quality " of at least equal force to those being generated outside the Review 's pages . |
| 28 | ‘ This reasoning applies with at least equal force to the present case . |
| 29 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 30 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |