Example sentences of "on [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single most distinctive feature of the English sentencing system is the breadth of discretion that is conferred on sentencers at all levels within the system . |
| 2 | Over the past five years , the Department of Health has spent £13m on projects at the Royal hospitals complex . |
| 3 | It would give Russia an additional incentive to abandon lingering imperial aspirations and focus on improvements at home . |
| 4 | Beehive Variety Ltd has already spent £175,000 on improvements at the hall but Darlington council is still unhappy about safety arrangements . |
| 5 | It always astonished Olga Stych that her mother 's horribly distorted hands , with their thick , horny nails , could produce such delicate embroidery and could paint with such skill the traditional patterns on eggshells at Eastertide . |
| 6 | I do n't base it on reasons at all . |
| 7 | A report on suicides at Oxford University has called for ways to be found to reduce academic pressure on students . |
| 8 | Many house plants freeze to death when left on windowsills at night behind drawn curtains . |
| 9 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
| 10 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 11 | Instead of glass rovings , the carbon tows are mounted on reels at the start of the process , and these are drawn through vinylester resin which has better wetting characteristics for the carbon . |
| 12 | Her Royal Highness who was looking radiant , assured everybody that she would be back on skis at next year 's Championships . |
| 13 | It was not a case of being almost heaven on skis at Argentiere but reborn . |
| 14 | Meg was busy trying on hats at the far side of the room , the android assistant standing beside her at the mirror , a stack of round , candy-striped boxes in her arms . |
| 15 | Samples of their work were laid out on trestle-tables at the side . |
| 16 | The COBE satellite is sensitive to scales , corresponding to fluctuations on scales at the present . |
| 17 | Erm whilst the County Council can provide you with some figures on vacancies at a district level , we would be very loathe to make any comment on the assumptions for conversions and windfall sites . |
| 18 | The sand felt firm here under his feet and he dog-paddled while checking the depth before easing on shore to lie with his chin on pebbles at the water 's edge , hearing the talk of sentries and just able to make out two figures behind a wall beyond the beach . |
| 19 | However , it is important to note and counter the limitations of mainstream approaches to management training , with their top-down assumptions , their tendency to exclude all but the head and senior staff , and their focus on strategies at the expense of educational purposes . |
| 20 | It is traditional to find a chapter on defences at the end of a tort textbook . |
| 21 | Let's just check No it 's been quiet on break-ins at the moment . |
| 22 | Like many of the the weddings entered into on whims at tawdry chapels along the Vegas Strip , it would be stretching a point to describe Holyfield-Bowe as a match made in heaven . |
| 23 | Notice of proceedings should be served on non-parties at the same time as copy applications are served on the respondents . |
| 24 | Although this approach has much to commend in terms of logic and rationality , by requiring justification of every activity and expenditure item it places an enormous workload on schools at a time when they are already overwhelmed . |
| 25 | Garages fire : A caravan and car were badly damaged when fire broke out in two garages on allotments at Sherburn village , Durham , yesterday . |
| 26 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 27 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 28 | The Middleton Tyas sewing group meets on Thursdays at 1.30pm at the home of Chris Channon . |
| 29 | It certainly seems to specialise in hitting nails on heads at just the right moment . |
| 30 | Large corporate customers pay interest on overdrafts at the bank 's base rate plus 1% . |