Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution . |
| 2 | Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) . |
| 3 | THE RUC are investigating allegations of drug dealing at a leading Belfast grammar school . |
| 4 | More familiar than detailed critical self-reflection on the level of individual courses are the corporate processes of decision making at the institutional level . |
| 5 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |
| 6 | Resolved , That this House , believing it is in Britain 's interests to continue to be at the heart of the European Community and able to shape its future and that of Europe as a whole , endorses the constructive negotiating approach adopted by Her Majesty 's Government in the Inter-Governmental Conferences on Economic and Monetary Union and on Political Union ; and urges them to work for an agreement at the forthcoming European Council at Maastricht which avoids the development of a federal Europe , enables this country to exert the greatest influence on the economic evolution of the Community while preserving the right of Parliament to decide at a future date whether to adopt a single currency , on issues of Community competence concentrates the development of action on those issues which can not be handled more effectively at national level and , in particular , avoids intrusive Community measures in social areas which are matters for national decision , devlops a European security policy compatible with NATO and co-operation in foreign policy which safeguards this country 's national interests , increases the accountability of the Commission , enhances the rule of law in the Community including improved implementation , enforcement and compliance with Community legislation , improves co-operation between European governments in the fight against drugs , terrorism and cross-border crime , and through these policies secures the long-term interests of the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The motion , eventually approved by a clear majority of 101 votes , declared that it was " in Britain 's interests to be at the heart of the European Community " but called on the UK government at Maastricht to pursue a policy which would avoid " the development of a federal Europe " and enable it " to exert the greatest influence on the economic evolution of the community while preserving the right of parliament to decide at a future date whether to adopt a single currency " . |
| 8 | A flush door will have a block of wood inserted at a convenient point so there 's something solid to cut into . |
| 9 | Her own afforded her nothing but a transient thrill , but mine supplied another dose of semen to chuck at the uterine wall where , sooner or later , she reckoned , some of it must stick . |
| 10 | As Cixous suggests , the mode of knowledge as a politics of arrogation pivots at a theoretical level on the dialectic of the same and the other . |
| 11 | A feeling of failure lies at the very heart of Serb nationalism , and with that come all the various justifications for this failure : all the various Cominterns , masonries and their unbelievable plots . |
| 12 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 13 | As a result , genes underwriting the avoidance of incest remain at a high level in the population . |
| 14 | The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time . |
| 15 | The gap between provision and need is too great to be bridged rapidly and many shortcomings have continued to be revealed by the considerable glare of publicity directed at the local authority services for the handicapped . |
| 16 | Signs that there had been loss of control appear at the very beginning of James 's reign when commissioners hearing private suits to the King were ordered not to give reversions to places of consequence . |
| 17 | At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy . |
| 18 | A climber jumps in his car , burns precious fossil fuels on a stretch of tarmac that has eaten acres of countryside to arrive at an undeveloped crag . |
| 19 | In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore . |
| 20 | Both books have a different style of writing aimed at a different kind of reader . |
| 21 | Eldorado was supposed to be a new breed of Euro-soap aimed at the single Euro-market , promising ‘ sun , sex and sangria ’ — and more bikinis than Baywatch . |
| 22 | The purpose of the research project is to examine the effects of profit sharing at the microeconomic level . |
| 23 | But after death , the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate : it halves every 5730 years . |
| 24 | The ground swell of concern continued at a sufficient level that the issue could not be ignored . |
| 25 | This is particularly the case for a Conservative government aiming at privatisation and the reduction in controls , an ample supply of land for private development , and the retention of land-use planning at the local level . |
| 26 | Developmental evidence suggests that an attachment to the symbols of monarchy occurs at an early stage , well before sophisticated cost-benefit analyses of national revenue are possible ( Abramson and Inglehan , 1970 ) . |
| 27 | The block of paranoia sitting at the other end of the table minutely shifted shape . |
| 28 | The left 's moment of revenge came at the Labour special conference at Wembley in 1980 . |
| 29 | As an example of the level of detail produced at the secondary modelling level , the outputs from the sub-systems concerned with calculating academic and non-academic resource needs included lists of : |
| 30 | There continues to exist an element of uncertainty as all EC member countries are not at the same level of preparedness to proceed at an identical pace towards the final stage of European monetary unification . |