Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 2 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 3 | Democratic centralism concentrates power in a few hands and at the end of the day produces decision rather than fudging . |
| 4 | This paper then looks at the characteristics of the people who spent some or all of their time in such homes and at the care they got from general practitioners , community nurses and hospitals . |
| 5 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |
| 6 | When Polish priests protested at these measures and at the attempt by schools ' inspectors to interfere in religious instruction , the government responded by arresting and exiling them . |
| 7 | Traditionally , the notion of personal response and what the Newbolt Report called ‘ literature as a living thing ’ were regarded by all schools as at the heart of English study , but there is no place for them in Zapp 's perspective . |
| 8 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 9 | This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life in unavoidable , is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away , but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships , one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious . |
| 10 | Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine at all hotels and at the Garden Club they also receive flowers or fruit . |
| 11 | You 've got to be prepared to listen to a lot of varied opinions about many difficult problems , assess the people who give you those opinions and at the end of the day you 've got to be very decisive and determined . |
| 12 | She looked like a refugee from one of those films that at the time constantly glamourized the Paris left bank — like Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face or Juliet Greco in so many roles . |
| 13 | Since privatisation ( and no doubt helped by the £200 million of public investment ) the firm has expanded substantially and currently has about 1,000 more employees than at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 14 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | Some companies offer to do the training either on their own premises or at the client site . |
| 16 | In a personal letter to Acheson , Jessup described MacArthur as being ‘ quite outraged ’ at the rejection of his own recommendations and at the recalcitrance displayed by the joint chiefs . |
| 17 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |