Example sentences of "at the [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked carefully at the sticks of uneven length and thickness that Philip had fixed together , too loosely . |
| 2 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 3 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 4 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 5 | Born in Los Angeles in 1940 , she majored in journalism and Spanish studies at the University of Southern California . |
| 6 | Now two Americans , Vincent Wilson and Peter Jones at the University of Southern California , have evidence that one of the actions of cancer-causing chemicals may be to jam the mechanism that normally keeps these genes — as well as other cellular genes — under control . |
| 7 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 8 | PRIZE : The Midland Study Centre prize for excellence in Construction Project Management has been won by Adrian Wheeler M. He started the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Centre , which is at the University of Central England , in 1990 sponsored by Dudley Health Authority where he was employed as capital works officer . |
| 9 | A former pupil at Birkenhead Sixth Form College , Keith is currently studying for a BSc degree in product engineering and product design at the University of Central England . |
| 10 | The youths will also study at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where they will be able to improve their employment opportunities . |
| 11 | Windsurfing is run from our own beach at the north of Nidri village . |
| 12 | Given that the world 's terrorist organisations routinely assist each other , coupled with the hysterical and disproportionate outburst among the Irish community at the decision of Digital Equipment Corp to end manufacturing in Galway , it would be unwise of the authorities in New York to exclude Irish Republican Army involvement in the terrorist bomb under the World Trade Center . |
| 13 | Furious at the decision of young King David II to appoint Sir Alexander Ramsay rather than himself as sheriff of Teviotdale , Douglas captured Ramsay and threw him into the Hermitage dungeon . |
| 14 | The impressive sense of internal cohesion at the price of external hostility is epitomized in the ambivalent role of the shaman , or inspired priest , in each community . |
| 15 | Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English . |
| 16 | The predicament for Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union is that this intra-bloc cohesiveness tends to be purchased at the price of internal stability . |
| 17 | The historical progression that has led to this can , at the price of great oversimplification , be seen as follows . |
| 18 | For the period under discussion , therefore , there is a central question of the extent to which high employment was purchased at the price of low productivity . |
| 19 | Finally , the prevalence of crop-sharing leases was an indication of incapacity or unwillingness to put capital into land , of a preference for social stability at the price of economic improvement . |
| 20 | Israel has proved highly successful at achieving regional predominance in association with the United States but this has been at the price of increasing economic and military dependence on its outside patron . |
| 21 | The home happiness , refinement and sheltered grace of middle-class women , she insisted , was bought at the price of other women 's toil and suffering . |
| 22 | From the time of the early modernists ( Schoenberg and others ) , only the radical avant-garde has resisted this situation , and that at the price of social isolation and deliberate incomprehensibility : the only way left to refuse the market . |
| 23 | He writes : I was now convinced , after the stubborn to-and-fro contest for every foot of ground which had continued throughout the whole of April , that although we had more than once changed our methods of attack , a decisive success at Verdun could only be assured at the price of heavy sacrifices , out of all proportion to the desired gains . |
| 24 | Capitalist society … can maintain a relative equilibrium only at the price of painful crises ; the adaptation of the various parts of the social organism to each other and to the whole can be achieved only with a colossal waste of energy . |
| 25 | Whoever farms the land in question may very well want the rabbits disposed of — but not at the price of constant disturbance of his land and perhaps at the risk of the well-being of the game shooting . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll do what I can as far as the Corosini are concerned , ’ he said gruffly , scowling at the leap of pathetic gratitude in her eyes . |
| 27 | Above us , tiny rounded ties sang high pitched , squeaky phrases , two-note chants , as they acrobat Ed up and over twigs , peering at the underneath of fat green sycamore buds for grubs . |
| 28 | The issue was raised by Phil Gallie , Conservative MP for Ayr , who protested at the actions of French fishermen yesterday in destroying £10,000 worth of fish en route from Ayr to Germany . |
| 29 | Professor Jeff Maxwell , director of the institute , said : ‘ Land use is a global issue , a fact which makes the research programme and objectives at the Macaulay of supreme international significance . |
| 30 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |