Example sentences of "at [noun] with [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the courses presented were thoroughly and lovingly prepared by lecturers from the polytechnics who fought hard at meetings with the officers of the CNAA and its panels to ensure that the school-centred elements in their courses were given due emphasis . |
| 2 | Only the off flounder left on the north bank at Portmadoc with no reports from the estuary . |
| 3 | Significantly , it was written one night when Cash was sitting around at home with the likes of Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash . |
| 4 | Here the M family continued the socialising process begun at home with the children by Mrs W and a family friend after their father was imprisoned . |
| 5 | There is envy , but also fear , of westerners , who seem so at home with the intricacies of capital markets and proportional representation . |
| 6 | While mundane scientists poke and prod at nature with the tools of experiment , astronomers on their mountains simply observe her , in all her heavenly glory . |
| 7 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 8 | The theory requires a low preglacial sea level , which is completely at variance with the conclusions of most Pleistocene research workers . |
| 9 | I did , however , express my views on the construction and effect of the section which , it now appears , were at variance with the views of academic and other writers : see ‘ The Judge and the Competent Minor ’ by Andrew Bainham ( 1992 ) 108 L.Q.R. 194 , 198 ; ‘ Multiple Keyholders — Wardship and Consent to Medical Treatment ’ by Rosy Thornton [ 1992 ] C.L.J. 34 , 36 ; Doctors , Patients and the Law , ( 1992 ) , at pp. 60–61 ( Ian Kennedy ) , at p. 76 ( Lawrence Gostin ) and at pp. 156–157 ( Ian Dodds-Smith ) and Margaret Brazier , Medicine , Patients and the Law , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 345 . |
| 10 | It is important to emphasize that the policy statements of the CDP disguised serious conflicts of opinion at crucial moments amongst the polytechnic directors , but also were frequently at variance with the views of the principals of the colleges of higher education and other institutions , and with the sentiments of the academic boards or staff of the polytechnics . |
| 11 | The moderate Anglicanism for which Wilkins stood is sometimes described as ‘ latitudinarian , ’ to indicate a breadth of mind and an attitude of religious toleration , at variance with the demands of puritan enthusiasts , whose overbearing self-assurance on the finer points of doctrine could be distasteful . |
| 12 | These issues will not be pursued further here , however , since in addition to the limitation of the duty to cases of insolvency or near-insolvency , the authorities do not suggest a need for behaviour at variance with the demands of profit maximisation . |
| 13 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 14 | Perhaps that is why Heather felt more at ease with the likes of you and I than with her family and the friends they chose for her . ’ |
| 15 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 16 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 17 | In the transcendent world , there are new laws and men must discard their habitual ideas of what is right and what is wrong ; in fact to see the utmost beauty we must look at things with the eyes of a child . |
| 18 | Austria not only had historical reasons for taking Russia 's part , but also was at odds with the Turks over the principality of Montenegro in the western Balkans . |
| 19 | Portugal was ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship , and so was at odds with the principles of liberal democracy that were deeply embedded in the life of the other six . |
| 20 | Many of them were frustrated by the lack of progress under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative , seeing its message of free trade as at odds with the actions of an increasingly protectionist US Congress . |
| 21 | But while the BHRCA speaks for many companies and individuals , it does not represent everyone , or even every sector , and is sometimes at odds with the views of other bodies . |
| 22 | The Politburo , reviewing the talks , described them as a ‘ major political event ’ and thought particularly significant the two leaders ' declaration that a nuclear war could not be won and must never be fought ; this was at odds with the views of some influential US ( and Soviet ) strategists . |
| 23 | For instance , the finding on equivalent doses ( which is at odds with the views of the CSM ) is handled by reference to oral evidence , to published work , and to a transcript . |
| 24 | He claimed that Britain and other leading European powers are at odds with the Germans over crucial aspects of the European Commission code on community take-overs . |
| 25 | The bursts of intra-party democracy within the Labour Party , reflected in the cry that " Conference should decide " , were invariably condemned as at odds with the essentials of the British constitution and as offensive to the magic , unmediated link between parliamentary leaders and " their " supporters ( not controllers ) in the electorate at large . |
| 26 | Here was cause for a new constitutional theory that would ease the liberal orthodoxy aside as at odds with the facts in order to describe , explain , and laud , the essentials of the new liberal-democratic constitution — a constitution in which there was an uneasy , and ultimately unstable , mix of the limited government of liberalism with the popular participation and equality of democracy . |
| 27 | Britain is also at odds with the terms of the EC 's draft directive on the subject , which proposes that a single European body should have sole authority to award the labels . |
| 28 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 29 | German unification , as severe a jolt to the system as you could imagine , obliged the Bundesbank , the system 's de facto anchor , to adopt a monetary policy that was at odds with the needs of its partners . |
| 30 | The beliefs of this group centred on Downing Street were completely at odds with the ideas of most of the Great and Good whom , indeed , they regarded as a symptom of the problem . |