Example sentences of "at the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 2 | His proposals delighted environmentalists but were said to have caused consternation amongst fellow members of his Cabinet , alarmed at the financial and logistical implications . |
| 3 | The professional 's role is necessarily at the supervisory and organisational level , guiding the parents by offering them techniques and skills to use themselves . |
| 4 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 5 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 6 | He hit a four-wood into the Rae 's Creek at the 13th and less excusably missed the green at the 17th . |
| 7 | Bill looks at the Danish and then at the dog , its eyes fixed on the Danish . |
| 8 | Two more made a futile dive for Okoye 's legs at the five and he evaded a final defender at the goal-line . |
| 9 | When Mitch met Maggie that night at the exclusive and expensive hotel where the count was staying he shook his head in despair . |
| 10 | Cell death also occurs in the chick at the anterior and posterior margins of a late bud , helping to mould its overall form . |
| 11 | The sheet of gut endoderm assumes a characteristic tubular structure at the anterior and posterior ends of the embryo although , unlike the neural tube , this is not due to a fusion of folds but rather to its folding back on itself such that the hindgut and foregut are present initially as blind ending tubes . |
| 12 | Reduction or special modification of certain segments is evident at the anterior and posterior ends of the abdomen , more especially in the latter region , and this specialization increases from the lower to the higher orders . |
| 13 | This argument was often associated with alarm at the various and fragmented character of the future teacher 's educational experience , but it went further than that . |
| 14 | In spite of the shift to the political right there remains widespread support for state-funded programmes in education and health and for those which are targeted at the poor and the old . |
| 15 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 16 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 17 | I have found , with growing experience , that many of the great authors ( Elliott , Stapledon , Scott-Watson , Howard , Balfour , Fraser , and Voisin , to name but a few ) yield more and more wisdom at the second and third reading . |
| 18 | Only those acting at the second and third stages have been described in the present chapter , but the most important agents for small mammal bone accumulations are those operating at the first stage of taphonomic modification . |
| 19 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 20 | At the second and subsequent prunings , a widely advocated rule of thumb guide is to reduce the stem length by about a half . |
| 21 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 22 | The electron fluxes were irregular , with peaks in the precipitating energy flux at the second and third of the steps which bound the ‘ cusp ’ precipitation : the regions polewards and equatorwards would usually be termed ‘ mantle ’ and ‘ cleft ’ , respectively . |
| 23 | In Japan , the relationship between maternal age and late fetal death ratios is " J " shaped at most birth orders , but the pattern is more variable in the two central European countries , where the ratios are either increasing with successive age classes ( beginning with the youngest ) as the first , third ( except at age group 25–29 years ) and sixth and higher orders , or the relation is " J " shaped ( somewhat lower at ages 20–24 than at ages under 20 and increasing thereafter , with the highest risks at the oldest ages ) as at the second and fourth orders of reverse " J " shaped as at the fifth birth order . |
| 24 | Davies , the holder , carded birdies at the second and third holes to move to three under but de Lorenzi , the Barcelona-based French golfer responded immediately . |
| 25 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |
| 26 | SIR — I was utterly infuriated at the thoughtless and bigoted article by Jamie Salmon ( Daily Telegraph , April 6 ) . |
| 27 | Zenaida threw her head back and laughed ; she had very big , yellow teeth too , donkey 's teeth , strong enough to haul with ; and Carmellina abased herself before her to trick her , until her face was on the floor at the dirty and rank hem of Zenaida 's dress , like the pilgrims who drag their tongues along the ground during the Tomb ritual before Easter . |
| 28 | What fun there was at Party conferences could most often be found outside it — in the Grand Hotel , where the prominenti stay and the Irish plant bombs , at the many and various meetings of the conference ‘ fringe ’ and among the bars , coffee stalls and bookshops which accompany the conference on its triangular three-year odyssey between Blackpool , Bournemouth and Brighton . |
| 29 | The issue of stability or order at the political and social level , and its relation to the interest of national strength and security was also a significant factor in shaping the particular arguments abolitionists advanced to influence the economic interest groups and policy-makers . |
| 30 | Poulantzas therefore takes a third way out : he claims that , despite superficial appearances , the economic position and practice of the working class does have ‘ pertinent effects ’ at the political and ideological levels , so that it can be identified as a class after all . |