Example sentences of "at [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 2 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 3 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 4 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 5 | At Fontainebleau he was full of the juices of spring but that 's before he caught syphilis and his nether parts began to drop off . |
| 6 | At present we have a government trying to run a free-enterprise economy having willingly hamstrung itself by fixed exchange rates and penal interest rates . |
| 7 | Still , at present we are lucky . |
| 8 | At present we seem able to do little to help male attempters by means of counselling approaches . |
| 9 | ‘ At present we are carrying out a detailed review of the loan book to establish its likely realisable value . |
| 10 | At present we have no committed team , no leaders , and certainly no building , but we do have a clear conviction that this is the next step in church planting for us to take . |
| 11 | At present we ourselves consider that any treatment programme , whether homoeopathic or otherwise , should start off with attention to diet . |
| 12 | At present we have reduced-alcohol , low-alcohol , de-alcoholised and alcohol-free beers , says the Food Commission pressure group . |
| 13 | It is a far cry from actually understanding the patterns , and at present we can only really present possibilities . |
| 14 | At present we have only one lubricator and we are trying to locate and purchase a large 12-feed unit . ’ |
| 15 | Roy Hardiman , the railway 's General Manager outlined the Gala arrangements ; ‘ Our two Hunslets , Holy War and Maid Marian will be working the passenger services between Llanuwchllyn and Bala Station and at present we are finalising the visit of two locos from the South of England . |
| 16 | At present we can not quantify the relative strength of the preference ; the solution to this question requires more detailed study of natural pair formation . |
| 17 | However , as Jencks ( 1987 ) has pointed out , intriguing as the adoption studies findings are , they are of no practical interest unless we know why they arise — and at present we do not . |
| 18 | It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know . |
| 19 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time . |
| 21 | At present we have to rely on several sources of information , which sometimes overlap , and which definitely leave great gaps . |
| 22 | At present we have 45 people ( all men ; age range 18–50 ) registered with the clinic , which continues to expand . |
| 23 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 24 | At present we do n't know the exact details of how it works , but towards the end of the 1980s it became apparent that once that signal does get to the nucleus , what happens next in any process of cell plasticity and growth — a step first detected in rapidly dividing cancerous cells , but soon recognized to be a rather universal mechanism — is the activation of a group of ‘ immediate early genes ’ . |
| 25 | At present we have 3,544 members . |
| 26 | Perhaps a future valid contribution to this field could be made by a combination of experimental simulation of mechanical and chemical compaction in conjunction with the use of computer imagery in volume reconstruction ; at present we only know compaction is extremely effective at reducing both absolute volume and porosity in many sediments . |
| 27 | At present we are concerned with what amounts to an enforceable agreement ( i.e. a contract ) . |
| 28 | At present we are opening on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m . |
| 29 | We must be more than neutral , but at present we are not even that . |
| 30 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |