Example sentences of "[noun] of [n mass] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 2 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 3 | Without the support of people at the top , no one is likely to confront organisational defensive routines . |
| 4 | Not only were other Sussex towns strongly characterised by the number of £2 assessments , usually on goods , but Bury St Edmunds and Newbury , also county centres , had a smaller proportion of people at the bottom of the heap than their immediate neighbourhoods , though at the latter , the suburban hamlet of Speenhamland was crowded with poor . |
| 5 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 6 | He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . |
| 7 | It aimed to meet , as only religion can , the most basic spiritual needs of people at the end of their tether . |
| 8 | There is increased recognition that concentrating limited national training resources at the professional or university level is not likely to have much impact on the service needs of people at the grass roots . |
| 9 | You know , that there was a group of people at the top , Ministers , perhaps , who had an interest in keeping relations between Copts and Moslems on the boil . |
| 10 | For good measure , up popped Mr Peter Stibbard , Director of Statistics at the Department of Employment . |
| 11 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 12 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 13 | They said that shortage of staff at the HSE meant that all the officers working on implementing the advisory committee 's proposals , which were published in October 1979 , were switched in 1980 to work on the EEC scheme . |
| 14 | The warrants will have an exercise price of £1 at the end of their nine-year life . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 16 | At 9.30 in the evening there 's a small queue of people at The Palace club at Hollywood and Vine , a dump about half the size of London 's Town & Country with a quarter of the atmosphere . |
| 17 | The research was conducted through the collection of data at the conclusion of an investigation or once a referral had been dealt with and closed via other action . |
| 18 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |
| 19 | One ex-member of staff at the home said : ‘ During the investigation no members of staff were called to witness even though many were present when the incidents occurred . ’ |
| 20 | The naming did not cause any lasting embarrassment to either side , and the same friendly rivalry and relationship between the two schools continues , it not being unknown for pupils at the one to go on to become members of staff at the other . |
| 21 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 22 | The MCC employed eleven members of staff at the time of investigation and ran a development corporation which was involved in renovating and constructing housing as well as providing local jobs . |
| 23 | Regulation Investigators : Dr G R Baldwin , Dr P W J Bartrip , P Fenn , Dr K O Hawkins , H Genn , Dr B M Hutter , Dr S M A Lloyd-Bostock , Dr P K Manning , Dr C G Veljanovski Research into regulation is a major concern of staff at the Centre and is now the largest grouping of projects . |
| 24 | The male guppy , a small South American fish , has a pair of fins on his underside modified into a gun-like tube through which he fires small bullets of sperm at the female 's genital opening . |
| 25 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 26 | That compares with a profit of £28m at the height of the boom in 1988 . |
| 27 | As outlined in Chapter 1 , LEAs will still be the employers of school staff ; governors of schools with delegated budgets , however , will now have control over setting the total number of staff at the school ; appointing and dismissing staff ; setting certain elements of pay and working conditions ; and controlling disciplinary and grievance procedures . |
| 28 | Regarding paragraph nine Chairman , no doubt you , you would tell us if there 's been a response on this , because this does seem a useless step forward er , to increase the number of people at the coalface as it were , and self-financing , and no doubt we shall hear in due course about this . |
| 29 | Instead of reporting the number of people at the gig , journalists query the 2 or 300 empty seats in the hall and question whether the band is really gaining popularity . |
| 30 | I met a number of people at the consultation who concurred with that view . |