Example sentences of "at [noun] [coord] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 2 | Someone at Templecombe or on the estates around . |
| 3 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 4 | Racialized discourses are always articulated in context : in an English or history class ; in a school corridor , dinner queue or playground ; at work or on the streets ; in one neighbourhood or another . |
| 5 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 6 | Unionist fears were based overwhelmingly on ignorance , in isolation from working-class attitudes at home and in the trenches , and on the certainty that things could not be the same again . |
| 7 | It begins with the dead body being moved into the sun as the sun used to awaken him both at home and in the trenches , in France . |
| 8 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 9 | There was more persistent questioning of the assumption that the market could indeed provide enough work for all who deserved and sought it , either at home or in the colonies , at wages which enabled the worker to provide adequately for himself and his family . |
| 10 | A much larger number helped at home or in the homes of neighbours and kin : ‘ At one school , where only twelve are returned as regular wage-earners , ‘ nearly all ’ are said to be employed … |
| 11 | Some of that magic obviously is still present , at Aintree and on the banks of the Thames , between Putney and Mortlake . |
| 12 | In Committee we talked about the needs of women returning home late at night and of the problems encountered by mothers with young children transferring from one mode of transport to another . |
| 13 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 14 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 15 | Prices for the cottages start at £35,000 and for the estates at £85,000 . |
| 16 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 17 | It may not always be possible , but consider the feasibility of holding some of the interviews at weekends or in the evenings . |
| 18 | Some courses run at weekends or in the evenings , and some during school hours . |
| 19 | Aysgarth Falls are a great natural attraction , tending to be rather too over-populated at weekends and during the holidays for the comfort of those who prefer to appreciate the wonderful scene without disturbance . |
| 20 | It is only at weekends and during the holidays . |
| 21 | At the end of each of the two crossover phases , patients rated globally the difference in the intensity of their dyspnoea at baseline and during the therapies . |
| 22 | His changes lasted until Nero abandoned the Augustan type of portrait and re-adopted divine symbols ; Nero 's new hairstyle has already been discussed ( p. 36 ) , and he is sometimes depicted at Rome and in the provinces wearing the radiate crown , a symbol of divinity , and the aegis , the attribute of Jupiter . |
| 23 | Unsavoury characters lurked at fairs and with the crowds jostling , and the dark , there was cover for more than pickpocketing . |
| 24 | It is designed to help diabetics when dealing with queries at airports or by the police or when they are taken ill . |