Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many issues where a N C V O should be exercising leadership , sometimes a rather difficult concept , and there is no need to apologise for that , for using leadership at the right time , but it has to be a leadership by consent , rather than claimed without authority , and it is in this context that the policy development department in N C V O exists , to help channel voluntary sector concerns to opinion formers , and policy makers , regardless of party politics , regardless of political commitment . |
| 2 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 3 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |
| 4 | However , US Secretary of State James Baker also conferred with de Klerk on March 22 , after meeting Mandela at the Namibian independence celebrations on March 21 . |
| 5 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 6 | This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue . |
| 7 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 8 | But , needing something to do after being ditched from pop show The Word , she has signed up for acting lessons at the famous Lee Strasbourg School . |
| 9 | Health departments had achieved a clearer separation of purchases and provider functions , and much more effective methods of needs assessment at the district-wide level . |
| 10 | Louie Crew is Director of Writing Program at The Chinese University in Hong Kong , and he has produced the off-beat Styled text analyser , our third and final contender . |
| 11 | If non-basic beliefs such as these can reduce the justification of basic beliefs , they can presumably also increase it , and in this case there would be the possibility that although our beliefs about our sensory states are always partially justified just because of their subject matter , they are never completely or satisfactorily justified unless there is confirming or at the least a lack of disconfirming evidence at the non-basic level . |
| 12 | Within this ideal model ( Fig 12.3 ) , the actual costs of providing education at the appropriate level would be calculated for both academic and non-academic resources ( eg staff , equipment , facilities , services , etc ) . |
| 13 | SIR RAGHAVAN PILLAI , the eminent Indian civil servant , who has died aged 93 , achieved the distinction of holding positions at the highest levels both during the Raj and after Independence . |
| 14 | This is a felicitous choice , since it serves the dual purpose of examining design at the same time as providing a basis for a definition of art , from which it is distinguished . |
| 15 | Another point that Akpata has brought up is that match and event organisers need to be aware of the ‘ trauma hospital ’ closest to their area , and should have a person capable of performing triage at the ready . |
| 16 | Children 's first experiences of learning English at the primary level colour the whole of their subsequent language learning development . |
| 17 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 18 | Finally , has the substantial expansion of educational provision increased the chances of working-class youth , relative to those of other young people , of obtaining positions at the top end of the occupational ladder ? |
| 19 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 20 | To get round the fact that the CSMA/CD carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection protocol prevents two nodes from transmitting data at the same time , so that video signals could get interrupted , isochronous Ethernet time-stamps the packets so they can be guaranteed to arrive at the recipient 's computer at the same time . |
| 21 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 22 | Beer mats will give way to hymnals , and glasses to enlightenment as Britain 's first ‘ pub church ’ holds its Easter Day service , two hours before opening time at the Old Farmhouse public house in Nailsea , near Bristol . |
| 23 | Kinawley are now supremely fit , and they enhanced their championship credentials with victory over the double champions Enniskillen in the quarter-final , before overcoming Roslea at the semi-final stage . |
| 24 | The pit 's financial problems have stemmed from a delay in starting production at the main PC1 coalface . |
| 25 | A spokesman at Monkton-hall said that coal was continuing to be produced in spite of current financial problems , which followed a delay in starting production at the main coal face . |
| 26 | Competitive advantage can be gained from exploiting information at the strategic level so as to increase business efficiency or to highlight areas in the organisation which are particularly strong or weak , and thus lead to new business strategies . |
| 27 | This week saw the country 's biggest parent group , the Scottish Parent-Teacher Council , claim that chaos could result from devolving budgets at the same time as council reform . |
| 28 | Thus , the criteria used in planning decisions at the local level may have very little to do with national ideology . |
| 29 | Acceptance of a proof of debt for voting purposes at the first meeting is not the same as acceptance by the trustee of a proof for dividend and the trustee is not bound by the earlier decision of the official receiver . |
| 30 | I look forward to meeting shareholders at the Annual General Meeting on 25 May . |