Example sentences of "[Wh pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only a limited number of pensioners who at present enjoy substantial occupational pensions . |
| 2 | Disability Living Allowance will bring together the existing Attendance and Mobility Allowance , providing new help to many disabled people who at present get no such help . |
| 3 | Many advisory teachers and others who at present hold leadership posts in special education needs support services were seconded during the 1970s and 1980s to take one-year full-time diploma courses at institutes of higher education . |
| 4 | With the law as it is there may be some men who would prefer an adult partner , but who at present turn their attention to boys because they consider that this course is less likely to lay them open to prosecution or to blackmail than if they sought other adults as their partners . |
| 5 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 6 | At the first of these , Nikolai Gubyenko presided at a banquet for ex-colleagues from his former Ministry and the actors who at present occupy the building . |
| 7 | but assuming the deal goes ahead , how will it affect the rights of the policyholders , who at present own the company ? |
| 8 | This project is aimed at average pupils , who at present fail to master our traditional secondary science courses . |
| 9 | Ecologist leaders have tended to pour scorn on the idea in public ( their private response has been warmer ) and the centrists , who at present form part of the conservative coalition , have rejected it out of hand . |
| 10 | Ecologist leaders have tended to pour scorn on the idea in public ( their private response has been warmer ) and the centrists , who at present form part of the conservative coalition , have rejected it out of hand . |
| 11 | The methods used , it is argued , fail to recognise their different cultural background , nor do they take account of the different needs of children who at home speak languages other than English . |
| 12 | Umpire Barker made no response to the appeal , whereupon Richards — who at slip was in precisely the wrong place to see what had happened — danced down the pitch waving his right hand frantically , giving every appearance that he was about to remonstrate forcefully with the umpire ; whereupon Mr Barker raised his finger and Bailey was on his way . |
| 13 | Mrs Browning was bothered , she said , by a man who at night hid in the bushes by her gate . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a lot of people who at tea-time when it 's getting dark , will want to put their coat on and go home . |
| 15 | Each table excludes not only any clients who died or moved out of the area before the periods ended ( for whom there was no difference between action and control samples ) , but also all those who at referral went straight into ( or remained in ) institutional care . |