Example sentences of "[adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 2 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 3 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 4 | Production and distribution of publicity material ( eg at bike events ) ; |
| 5 | There were also difficulties for staff who undertook priority work for such matters as public enquiries , and required access at times when the Registry was closed , eg at lunchtime and hours outside the normal working day . |
| 6 | During its service life it served in Egypt , Aden and Nairobi as well as in the UK ( eg at No 204 AFS , Driffield ) . |
| 7 | At a time when forces were inexorably at work in Britain itself to produce the bureaucratic form of government we know today , there flourished in the empire a governing ethos which , with its emphasis on character rather than training in its practitioners , its primitive notions of justice , its exaltation of the autonomous agent unhindered by outside control , its demand for loving awe from the governed , was unmistakably the product of an earlier age . |
| 8 | So , having been robbed of all convenient benchmarks , I 'm somewhat at sea . |
| 9 | Foreign policy tended to be the area where Churchill kept full Cabinet somewhat at arm 's length , as Anthony Seldon notes : |
| 10 | This conclusion is thus somewhat at variance with that usually encountered in the literature . |
| 11 | Consider , for instance , informed discussions of sporting events , which are always displays of evaluative analysis : who played well , who disappointingly , and why and how ; or whether a team has played better at home or away , this season or last . |
| 12 | We 'd study better at home , ’ Sheila complained crossing the fields . |
| 13 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 14 | There is quite a bit of research , I think , to show that women do better at maths and science in single sex girls schools . |
| 15 | Women do slightly , but consistently , better at degree level . |
| 16 | At 24 , he seems to be doing better at Test cricket the second time round ! |
| 17 | Tell him that to become better at spelling , he should do these things : |
| 18 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
| 19 | They wanted us to do better at school ( be perfect ) . |
| 20 | Children whose mums joined the US programme did much better at school , added Anne . |
| 21 | Sociologists may attempt to improve on this by detailing specific areas of behaviour in which they are interested : how people behave in families , why some people are involved in crime , why some children perform better at school , and so on . |
| 22 | She 's working better at school , too . |
| 23 | These tasks appear to be done better at night with a general decline throughout the daytime to lowest values in the early evening . |
| 24 | However , by far the most common response from all parts of the country was ‘ they could relax and concentrate better at night as their minds would not be thinking about the jobs they should be doing ’ , . |
| 25 | First , however , he had to ask Isobel if he could alter the lighting in the garage , so that he could see better at night . |
| 26 | I worked really hard which meant I got tired and could sleep better at night . |
| 27 | IBM with its £18000 million turnover does far better at IT than France Inc. with its £400000 million gross domestic product . |
| 28 | Further , there is such a large overlap between girls ' and boys ' test or examination results that it is true to say that a great many girls do better at mathematics than the majority of boys . |
| 29 | He was two years older than I , taller , more handsome , better at sport . |
| 30 | There is no country better at patriotism than the U.S. and its treatment of the match should be taken as a compliment to European golf . |