Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A five-month strike involving tax collectors , customs officers , statisticians and government accounts officers protesting at low wages as well as at archaic and deteriorating facilities ended in November 1989 . |
| 2 | They should now be secured by carefully bending their leads , using long-nosed pliers , at right angles as shown . |
| 3 | There were nearly twice as many accidents at private parties as there were nn er public displays . |
| 4 | ‘ The list includes special deals which have been negotiated at specific hotels as well as agreements with two major chains , ’ said . |
| 5 | Fell would also like to allow temperatures to rise high enough in the reactor to test theories about how fuel cladding could ‘ balloon ’ at high temperatures as high-pressure helium builds up inside fuel rods in an accident . |
| 6 | On the other hand , thermal conditions can apply , and at light loadings as prescribed , a powerful thermal can take over and give Teddy an extra thrill of going up instead of down . |
| 7 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 8 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 9 | We change the sets often , so you learn how to do things at different venues as you go along . |
| 10 | Similarly , secondary education librarians point to the lack of continuity between primary and secondary education , The lack of continuity between the various sectors and the poor transference of skills from one to the other is partly a consequence of lack of co-operation between the different sectors , but also the dilemma of librarians at different levels as to whether they should focus on short-term or long-term information needs . |
| 11 | Finally , the index is intended to remedy one defect of the book , which is that topics , theories and approaches recur at different places as we go along . |
| 12 | On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast . |
| 13 | Erm conversely I I think we would want to look at individual proposals as they as they came forward , and see what landscaping proposals they have and er how they intend to mitigate any perhaps adverse er landscape er implications . |
| 14 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 15 | The 1966 plan , and two subsequent parts dealing with academic organization and administrative structure , and library and information services , looked in detail at such areas as target size and accommodation , the curriculum , research policy , outside relationships , academic standards , governance and structure . |
| 16 | The AE at such firms as these had to get in a minimum number of clients per week . |
| 17 | One of these tunnels , which seemed awesomely long , black and terrifying , was , with gumption and at such times as the brook was not in full spate , explorable . |
| 18 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 19 | It was strange , but he imagined that at such times as this , when there was only himself and his mother in the house , the building had left its base and was afloat in the air . |
| 20 | Order 9 , r 6 applies if the defendant in a default action : ( 1 ) does not within 14 days after service of the summons on him , pay to the plaintiff the total amount of the claim and costs on the summons ; or ( 2 ) delivers an admission of the whole of the plaintiff 's claim unaccompanied by a counterclaim or a request for time for payment , or ( 3 ) does not deliver an admission of part of the plaintiff 's claim , a defence or counterclaim , the plaintiff may on filing a request for judgment , and certifying that defendant has not sent any reply to the summons , and stating what payments , if any , have been made , have judgment entered , either for payment forthwith or at such times as plaintiff may specify . |
| 21 | Struck at such moments as the end of a verse , these enhanced the impact of rituals performed to promote harmony and enhance the dignity of the state over a period of at least three millennia from the Shang to the Qing dynasties . |
| 22 | In this chapter we shall look at such topics as village planning and regulation , the origins of villages , polyfocal villages , and whether pre-village elements can be distinguished . |
| 23 | Avoid looking at such things as much as possible . |
| 24 | They looked at such things as whether if then relationships between clauses were present or absent , and also changed the order of several sentences . |
| 25 | Thus , to grasp properly the significance of popular dancing in the mid-nineteenth century — the waltz , for example — it is necessary to look not only at the waltz culture of the popular classes but also at such factors as : the peasant sources of the waltz ; the use made of those sources in bourgeois culture ; the changing social relations involved in the growth of industrial capitalism , to which the romanticizing of popular culture found in bourgeois waltzing , together with its cultivation of an explicit sensuality , was probably a reaction ; the tendency of the social developments to result in the atomization of established collective social patterns and modes of corporeal expression , leading , among avant-garde composers , to a music more overtly of thought and feeling , as against a music of social gesture ; the way these same composers , by way of reaction to that situation , incorporated spiritualized versions of dance elements in their music . |
| 26 | However , sea-watching at such sites as Selsey Bill and Beachy Head has recorded a large visible passage in spring . |
| 27 | She complained that it was ‘ indecent that fellows and wenches should come at such hours as they do ’ to get her husband out of bed for the night watches . |
| 28 | We have similar difficulties when we look at such aspects as soul and intelligence : these have a profound effect on our daily existence , yet we have problems whenever we try to quantify them . |
| 29 | In Leicester working groups have been set up to look at such issues as energy , transport , waste and pollution , food and agriculture , economy and work , and the environment both natural , man-made and social . |
| 30 | Walsh sneered at such suggestions as ‘ traditional left ’ , old-hat and boring . |