Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks at both the validity of the accounting procedures as such and at the faithfulness of their conclusions to reality . |
| 2 | That meant Argentinian shoppers were paying roughly 30 times more for the same basket of goods at the end of 1989 than at the beginning of the year . |
| 3 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 4 | Above Eaux-Bonnes is the ski resort of Gourette , which has been created in the kind of setting ski resorts ought to have , in pasture-land but at the foot of the formidable mass of the Pic de Ger to the south . |
| 5 | He assisted at the baptism of Henry 's daughter Eleanor in 1161 and at the translations of dukes Richard I and II at Fécamp in 1162 and of Edward the Confessor at Westminster in 1163 . |
| 6 | The guide also looks at the repossessions market in general and at the costs of buying a house . |
| 7 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 8 | In 1801 he participated in the expedition to Egypt , and served in Hanover in 1805 and at the taking of Copenhagen two years later . |
| 9 | Monique filed for divorce in 1974 and at the proceedings in October 1976 , she told the court that Rachid ‘ was a man who did not seem to have any control of his emotions ’ ; that he believed ‘ women are not men 's equals and that women are servants to men ’ . |
| 10 | Few people know that this great pioneer was born in 1837 and at the age of 11 walked the 165 miles from Yorkshire to London in search of work . |
| 11 | It was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1841 and at the time it was acclaimed as an engineering masterpiece . |
| 12 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 13 | I am pleased to be able to tell the right hon. Gentleman that we have had discussions on that matter both in the European Community Development Ministers ' meeting the Thursday before last and at the OECD . |
| 14 | The mill purchased by from was built during 1973 and at the time of the take-over was producing around 70,000 tonnes a year . |
| 15 | The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] . |
| 16 | We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home . |
| 17 | Numbers : Numbers should usually be spelt out one at nine and at the beginning of a sentence . |