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

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1 Oxford never let go though … there 's many a premier league side who 'll fare worse than this at Villa Park this season …
2 The Press Trust of India reported that some of the Maoists had been killed in a subsequent encounter with police , but there was no confirmation of this at state government level .
3 Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first .
4 HELL , HISTORY was never like this at school .
5 HELL , HISTORY was never like this at school .
6 So which fair is this at school is it ?
7 My favourite subject has always been English , and I hope to study this at university .
8 They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do .
9 One can see this at work in the now widely-used system of allowing each student to provide total nursing care for the patients in her care for a period of time .
10 I quite often see this at work : I love helping people out of difficult situations , but I 'm also very good at pushing people out of my way if I feel that they are a threat to me .
11 We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ?
12 We had a quiz like this at work and our captain could n't
13 Having discovered all this at life 's two-furlong pole , Piggott is not about to let some doctor tell him that he wo n't finish the race — especially not an American doctor .
14 This pollution prevention , is this at smallholding ?
15 And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial .
16 It 's not like this at Badminton , ’ Biddy muttered .
17 She had to revise this at Angel and again at Old Street .
18 It is only when he is on the ship bound for England away from mental setbacks such as this at court , that give Hamlet the courage to return to kill Claudius .
19 NI211 , ‘ Mobility allowance , ( but this at present is not payable after pension age , i.e. 65 for men , 60 for women ) , and Ni49 , ‘ National insurance death grant ’ .
20 Long term use of high doses of ketamine has the potential to interfere with memory , learning , and attentional mechanisms due to blockade of the N -methyl- d -aspartate receptor , although there is no clear evidence of this at present .
21 Department not in a position to undertake this at present .
22 Right , just to move us on , then , since you 're all going to have a go at this at council , yes ?
23 No wonder only 10 per cent of American adults have a valid passport ; why bother to go abroad when you have all this at home .
24 The aim will then be to encourage the family to try and modify their interactions within the therapy session , before practising this at home .
25 Correcting this at home takes a minute or two with needle and thread — but I did n't have a sewing kit with me on my first outing .
26 ‘ We can talk about this at home , Lizzy .
27 ‘ Are they like this at home , or is it only when they 're on holiday ? ’
28 To beat the habit of taking an unnecessary emergency breath before speaking , practise this at home : shout ‘ Oy ! ’ before reciting each line of a chosen poem or song , then go on into the line without a breath .
29 It 's good to end the day like this — they often do n't get the opportunity to experience this at home .
30 ‘ They 're never going to believe this at home ! ’
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