Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might make it easier for girls at the foreclosure stage to accept science so recruitment might increase . |
| 2 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 3 | I think it 's not , I think it 's very immoral to , to tie in these sort of junk foods or poor nutritious substances with something that 's very popular among children at the moment . |
| 4 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 5 | I intend speedily to provide a Quantity of Hysteric Drops , being apprehensive of Fits at the Sound of the Post-horn . |
| 6 | Nothing inadequate about his physical acting but his voice was his asset , the driest , most pungent of sherries at the command , so often , of Shakespeare 's verse , utterly lacking the fruitiness and histrionics of so many over-tired classical actors of his generation . |
| 7 | ( 9 ) Sometimes the amount payable for chattels at the property may be separately set out , particularly if the price of the property is close to the current stamp duty threshold . |
| 8 | The spinning streamers of fog trawled for sunlight that would n't be here for a while , and the snow had piled the purest of pillows at the foot of an ice-cliff . |
| 9 | Claire 's enthusiasm is typical of students at the Spencer Centre in Northampton . |
| 10 | Blanche 's commitment is typical of volunteers at the Darlington branch of the Red Cross . |
| 11 | They 'll be storing hundreds of vehicles at the site and using the 700 acres for military exercise . |
| 12 | Hundreds of fans at the Reading Rock Festival were stuck with their cars and vans in thick mud last night . |
| 13 | It is also very hard for apparatchiks at the grassroots of the party to understand . |
| 14 | Germany also responded to an appeal made by Gorbachev on Nov. 21 during meetings at the Paris summit of the CSCE [ see p. 37838-39 ] for governments to provide emergency food aid . |
| 15 | The perforated slatting is ideal for kitchens at the front of the house ( or overlooking the garden ) as it allows privacy , conceals work areas , yet allows a view of the outside — the garden , the horizon , or just the weather ! |
| 16 | Their dimensions varied , some being ten sazhens square with half-bastions at the corners , whereas elsewhere they were double the size , with full bastions . |
| 17 | This is particularly likely with radiators at the top of the system . |
| 18 | You will be paid monthly in arrears at the rate of per annum . |
| 19 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 20 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 21 | When ARCO tired of losses at The Observer , Tiny Rowland 's Lonrho , already owner of a Glasgow daily , bought it . |
| 22 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 23 | An understanding on PR , which would change the electoral terrain , may come , but is likely to be stubbornly resisted , above all amongst loyalists at the grass-roots constituency level , which is exactly where the dialogue with the Liberal Democrats and other political forces who stand to gain from a more democratic electoral system needs to begin . |
| 24 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 25 | If they are to return to a 10 per cent liquidity ratio , they need only retain £11 billion as balances at the Bank of England ( £11 billion £1 l0 billion = 10 per cent ) . |
| 26 | Often these feelings and beliefs lead people to claim to know God and to glimpse the transcendent ; sometimes they represent that striving and longing for perfection which characterizes human beings but always they are concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence . |
| 27 | The problem is that although the beliefs and feelings are " always concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence " — which does suggest or give opportunity for something which is not just subjective in interpretation — it tends to subsume the religious view of life under what we might call a humanist umbrella . |
| 28 | A bank of information is also being set up by the Panel with a view to helping those with disabilities at the Bar . |
| 29 | A voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive girls ' school adopted an admission policy in which the categories for admission were , in order of priority , baptised Roman Catholics , children of baptised Roman Catholics , practising Christians and other Christians , in the latter two cases giving priority to those with sisters at the school . |
| 30 | Priority will be given to those with sisters at the school . |