Example sentences of "at [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Class time The drama work is preceded by research into nineteenth-century life , including looking at maps of the local area prior to the coming of the railway . |
| 2 | His time was often spent , he said , looking at maps in the local bookshops , following voyages of exploration such as those of Francis Drake . |
| 3 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 4 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 5 | Conflict has also led to the UGT pursuing its own parallel negotiations with management , at times outside the formal negotiating structure . |
| 6 | You can develop the link further by visiting regularly , at different times of the day , such as dawn , noon , sunset and midnight , at times of the full moon , perhaps , or the eight traditional festivals . |
| 7 | Challis draws a distinction between geographical decentralisation and resource decentralisation where ‘ decisions over the precise allocation of resources are formally pushed to a lower level than is usual , at times to the individual field worker , to ensure more appropriate allocation of resources ’ . |
| 8 | With the auction taking place in the hangar nearest the airfield flightline , the auctioneer fought a verbal battle at times with the public address system on the airfield and the constant opening and closing of the hangar doors , the latter not known for their quietness ! |
| 9 | Rural labour had internalised deferential attitudes toward authority and a fatalistic acceptance of its conditions during a protracted history of custom and dependence , but at times in the nineteenth century had demonstrated radical resistance to the imposition of capitalist rationalisation . |
| 10 | A London girl whose father had died lived at times in the next street with her grandmother , moving between the two homes . |
| 11 | There was tenderness , there was compassion , there was kindness , there was love , though obscured at times by the harder angles of his constantly changing Cancerian character . |
| 12 | Some information on other characteristics of the population such as household structure , employment status , ethnic composition and housing situation can be gleaned from the annual General Household and Labour Force surveys , but the problem of small sample size virtually rules out their use at scales below the Standard Region . |
| 13 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 15 | According to Sark law , by her marriage her estate , including the seigniory , passed to her husband , but she had no intention of relinquishing her hold on island affairs and , although he then became the official seigneur , she sat beside him at meetings of the chief pleas ( Sark 's governing body ) , prompting his actions and continuing , albeit illegally , to give voice to her own opinions . |
| 16 | Less accomplished lecturers repeated the message at meetings of the second-rate institutions that infect academic life . |
| 17 | A formal application for observer status at meetings of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) was made on April 6 , 1990 and approved at the heads of government meeting in Kingston , Jamaica , in July [ see p. 37648 ] . |
| 18 | At meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships , continued recovery is sustained by sharing one 's own experience , strength and hope and hearing others share how life was , what happened and how life is now . |
| 19 | However , it is important that after-care does not become a substitute for attendance at meetings of the Anonymous Fellowships or for actually working the suggested 12 Steps of recovery or for establishing a continuing relationship with a sponsor . |
| 20 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 21 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 22 | The realism of Labour 's attitude towards foreign policy was reinforced by Bevin 's insistence , both at meetings of the National Executive ( to which he was specially invited ) and at the 1945 Labour Party Conference at Blackpool that it was essential to continue with military service while Britain retained the responsibility for maintaining occupation forces in Germany and elsewhere . |
| 23 | Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for |
| 24 | A new bank account with the Route Seventeen card which provides instant access for cash withdrawals and account balance enquiries from Cashline machines at branches of The Royal Bank of Scotland , virtually 24 hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 25 | Arterial infusion of taurocheodeoxycholic acid at concentrations found in the venous effluent ( 100µmol/l/l ) suppressed motility ( p<0.001 ) but infusion of PYY at concentrations in the venous effluent ( 500.0 pmol/l ) failed to inhibit motility . |
| 26 | The UK government has ordered the closure for modifications of a Derbyshire incinerator which was emitting dioxins , after milk from three nearby farms was found to contain the chemical at densities above the permitted level . |
| 27 | This Update looks at aspects of the new beginning , from an individual view of the validation process to an account of how new national units are developed . |
| 28 | My recollection , and I 'm speaking from memory , and I could be wrong , but I think that the last time I looked at lists of the various companies in Telford , where I 'm obviously more concerned , not , well , that 's not to mean I 'm not concerned elsewhere , but I 'm more familiar with respect to them , my recollection is that the more American than anything else on that site . |
| 29 | At intervals up the huge cylinder there were normal taps , the sort found over sinks . |
| 30 | Originally the whites were kept more for their decorative qualities than for practical reasons , but since those days their breeders have changed their minds at intervals about the main role of the breed . |