Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is a salutary reminder of the powerful implications of teacher enthusiasm : no doubt at least part of the popularity of any text has as much to do with the way it is taught , as with characteristics embodied in the text itself .
2 Although psychiatric inpatient care , either in a psychiatric hospital or in a psychiatric unit in the general hospital , is only necessary for a small proportion of attempted suicide patients ( see Table 10 ) , this group is particularly important because it includes the patients likely to be at greatest risk of subsequent suicide and some who pose particularly difficult management problems .
3 The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area .
4 In the developing countries of highest infant mortality , children born to teenage mothers are least likely to survive , but in the countries with lower mortality , it is the children born to women aged 40 and over that are at greatest risk of dying in infancy and early childhood .
5 With increasing travel to and from countries endemic for diphtheria , booster vaccinations of the adult population in western European countries may have to be reconsidered ; and health care workers , who are at greatest risk of exposure to the saliva of diphtheria patients , should be adequately immunised .
6 As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk .
7 Children and young people are at greatest risk as the older element of the population who have experienced this before will have a degree of resistance . ’
8 ‘ Children and young people are at greatest risk as the older element of the population who have experienced this before will have a degree of resistance . ’
9 Therefore puppies housed after weaning in insanitary surroundings are at greatest risk from this vice .
10 For the first six weeks of your maternity leave you will receive of your normal pay , the next twelve weeks will be at normal pay plus SMP , any further period of absence will be unpaid .
11 Discussions between two people provide good materials , but will be useless if words are mouthed , since , as ever , you need whole sentences at normal speed with normal rhythm .
12 Remember that the language is spoken at normal speed for an audience of native speakers .
13 Practice partner uses set sentence ( at normal speed of course ) : ‘ What do people mean when they say … ? ’ and finishes the sentence by including the key word .
14 In the first sentence use the name near the beginning , and in the second sentence use the name near the end ( learn by doing , SAS each sentence , at normal speed of course ) .
15 People whose sexual behaviour is at total variance with their previous mood — the most exciting and passionate sex following the most horrendous and enraged row — are demonstrating a split or lack of integration in their personality .
16 At Total Oil in St FErgus , near Aberdeen , manager Yan Szczesnowicz had his staff dress up as anything from Mickey Mouse to Bart Simpson , with a few american indians , the cavalry and Uncle Sam thrown in .
17 Today I have with me Mrs. Julia Knight and Dr. Michael Eraut , who , together with Tony Becher , have recently completed a study that looked at parental involvement in primary schools .
18 Pacific shareholders are to be offered new Martin Currie shares at 92 p.c. of the underlying asset value of the Pacific trust .
19 On Oct. 11 the Kuwait government began to allow " scores " of the approximately 12,000 refugees at Abdali camp in the demilitarized zone on the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border to enter Kuwait , having verified that they were previous residents and had family in Kuwait .
20 Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year .
21 This fairly low level of detection suggests that either K + channels were present at low density in the plasma membrane , or that K + channels were limited to a small subpopulation of cells withint the HGT-1 cell line .
22 They were exceedingly lucky as the reef was only clear enough of water at low tide for an aircraft to land on three days each month .
23 I know nothing about radio — but I do n't need to , I realize , because , even while I watch , the waves are softly withdrawing from the wavebands , as from a beach at low tide on a calm summer 's afternoon , leaving me gazing through the darkness of my son 's bedroom at three shirts , two of them size 35 long , one of them size 32 medium .
24 The two sides reached a stand-off at low tide on Tuesday but tempers flared and punches were thrown .
25 The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary .
26 OLD HARRY at low tide in 1896 when his wife half collapsed .
27 Penzance has fine views of St Michael 's Mount , a fairytale castle built on an island reached at high tide by boat and at low tide by a causeway , which is owned by the National Trust .
28 FRIDGE PLUG TO RIGHT OF IT AT LOW LEVEL ON WALL
29 They will fly at low level for two hours , with many men suffering the effects of air sickness and dehydration .
30 This was no easy task as the Lincoln would be flying at low level over a featureless jungle and the bomb aimer had to be quick in identifying each datum point on the route into and out of the target point .
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