Example sentences of "[conj] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this type of case , the nearest equivalent to direct personal service on an individual defendant would be service at the registered office or ‘ seat ’ of a company , or at the principal place of business of some other type of business association , on a senior executive of the company or association . |
| 2 | No study looks systematically either at the role of girls vis-à-vis masculine delinquency , or at the possible importance of girls ' groups in female deviancy . |
| 3 | In the case of parish , town or community councillor the declaration must be made before or at the first meeting of the council after his election , or if the council at that meeting so permits , before or at a later meeting fixed by the council . |
| 4 | The more sceptical and critical attitude towards nationalism which appeared to develop in the postwar period , and the fresh attempts to create ( even within a limited area ) supranational organizations , or at the other end of the spectrum to revive local and regional communities , provided an opportunity to redirect the sense of belonging , at least to some extent , upon political units other than the nation state . |
| 5 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 6 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if they 're parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 7 | Well I think one of the advantages of a nursery schooling is certainly a considerable amount of social interaction for the children , which very often they wo n't be obtaining , either if they 're living in high rise flats , or at the other end of the social spectrum if their parents are living in large houses with large gardens and no other children within the vicinity . |
| 8 | And if you , you go and see a G P at the end of the financial year or at the wrong part of the financial year , then you may be referred to somewhere strictly because that 's all the G P can , can afford to send you . |
| 9 | There are plenty of bars and cafes , many of them featuring live music , or at the opposite end of the scale operetta ! |
| 10 | Under the proposals , they will be liable to tax on the value of the dividend plus a notional , non-payable tax credit of 20% which will be set off against their liability at the single flat rate of 35%. 28 Income which discretionary trustees use to meet trust management expenses will not be liable to tax at the single flat rate of 35% but at the lower rate of 20% ( if the income is dividends ) or at the basic rate of 25% ( if it is other income ) . |
| 11 | It is nevertheless beginning to demonstrate a willingness to fight its corner should things get tough either after the election or at the periodic review of price limits in three years time . |
| 12 | Infusion of bFGF subcutaneously in various doses ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour ) did not significantly alter gastric acid or pepsin secretion , although at the highest fose of bFGF ( 100 µg/kg ) gastric secretion tended to decline ; acid output fell to 103 ( 15 ) µmol/30 minutes and pepsin output fell to 0.76 ( 0.17 ) . |
| 13 | However , it must be recognised that at the current level of terrorist threat , full accompaniment of all patrols could be achieved only at the expense of aborting necessary anti-terrorist operations with a consequent increase in terrorist activity . |
| 14 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 15 | Realeat marketing director Graham Keen predicted that at the current rate of growth there would be five million vegetarians by the turn of the century . |
| 16 | It should be noted that at the second stage of the study ( after the healing of oesophagitis ) the patients were still taking omeprazole . |
| 17 | The problem for Sombro was that at the mere age of three , he was getting old before his time because of his rampant ways and , by the look of the scars on his face , ears and neck , he was n't finding it any easier to hold his own with the competition . |
| 18 | Flying still excites me with that curious mixture of fear — knowing the plane has the aerodynamics of a brick once the forward thrust is lost — and the knowledge that at the other end of the journey there will be new sounds and smells and things to look at . |
| 19 | He adds that at the other end of his society 's new building — a pink neo-classical palace — there are men in braces and loud shirts dealing on the Tokyo capital markets as they order pizzas . |
| 20 | As Mr Day points out : ‘ To the small and medium sized company , all accountants are very much the same and , with the increasing competition from certified and unqualified accountants , I do n't believe that at the lower end of the market chartered accountants will ever get back on the pedestal in the same way they used to be . |
| 21 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 22 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 23 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 24 | Rather , our results imply that at the preheadfold time of treatment ( 7.5d.p.c. ) , a certain degree of regional variation has already been specified at the level of rhombomere pairs ; retinoic acid is unable to override the specification choice of an odd- or even-numbered character . |
| 25 | If you approach the village from the north , however , along the D9 or D33 , you see that at the northern edge of the village , the vineyards bank up on both sides to form a hollow where the vines dip down to 120 metres , giving east and west-facing exposures on either side . |
| 26 | His nonconformist origin found it strange , if not reprehensible , that at the main service of the day no one but the priest took the sacrament . |
| 27 | These important studies , made at night with great patience ( Charles-Dominique and Martin 1972 ) , show that at the very root of the primate evolution we have an extremely loose kind of relationship between the sexes . |
| 28 | The national coach 's belief is that at the next meeting of the SFA 's International Committee the question of how club is currently strangling country has to be at the top of the agenda . |
| 29 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 30 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |