Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if worship is the foundation of all the Church 's other activities , greater priority must be given to matters liturgical and musical , even at the expense of some subjects which at present form part of the syllabus . |
| 2 | Mr Campbell commented ‘ The most important recent development in ordinary shares was the reverse yield gap which at present stands at the alarming value of 4 ¼%.; |
| 3 | Yet it did not generally solve the problem of keeping labour itself at work , loyally , diligently and modestly . |
| 4 | For this implies that if there is an unexpected rise in demand in period t consumers will not be able to buy the quantity of the good they at time period t - 1 , or ex ante , considered optimal at the set price . |
| 5 | A cooling-off period does not guarantee success , but it offers a degree of public protection which at present is entirely lacking . |
| 6 | To make them pure for drinking purposes is , perhaps , impossible ; but it may reasonably be hoped that they may become sufficiently so to delight the eye and to repress the pestiferous and sickening exhalations which at present affect the multitudes of our population compelled to pass their lives on the bank of such rivers . |
| 7 | This would make the European art market more competitive and , in particular , it would encourage the art trade in those member states which at present charge VAT on the full price . |
| 8 | There is an argument for retaining a four mile annulus for the area of search for the new settlement rather than a two mile , because of the rigidity which at present applies to the distance of the outer boundary of the greenbelt from York City Centre . |
| 9 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 10 | One is the requirement that contracts in the independent sector should go from now on ( except in ‘ exceptional circumstances ’ and subject to minimum standard requirements ) to the highest bidder : the other is the reduction in the programme obligations which at present safeguard the claim of minority programmes to television time . |
| 11 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 12 | The difficulties which at present confront the Sixth Form colleges centre around |
| 13 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 14 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 15 | Disability Living Allowance will bring together the existing Attendance and Mobility Allowance , providing new help to many disabled people who at present get no such help . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a lot of people who at tea-time when it 's getting dark , will want to put their coat on and go home . |
| 17 | At the same time the western tip of the Isle of Wight was also almost isolated from the main mass of the island by the flooding of the valley of the western Yar which at present lies well below 15 m ( 50 ft ) OD and extends north-south across the island three miles from its western extremity . |
| 18 | Or thirdly , it could accept the patchwork quilt of ill-constructed tribunals which at present exists , and endeavour to remedy some of their more obvious defects . |
| 19 | ‘ Here we want to establish a museum to house works which at present are kept in the store at the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia : sculptures , tapestries and the extraordinary Odescalchi collection of arms and armour , one of the largest of its kind in Europe ’ . |
| 20 | I bet my Bill somebody at work today . |
| 21 | When fellow platoon-members wondered why they were there , fighting primitive jungle wars nobody at home seemed to care for when men were walking on the moon , North could not understand them . |
| 22 | Mrs Browning was bothered , she said , by a man who at night hid in the bushes by her gate . |
| 23 | And growing government , increasing bureaucracy , higher taxes and more and more regulation have put the legitimacy of government itself at issue . |
| 24 | It all adds , little by little , to a climate of resentment which at street level may be interpreted as by this black girl ( Lucy ) : |
| 25 | There was a heated argument between the two men which at length it fell to Branson to settle . |
| 26 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 27 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 28 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 29 | The methods used , it is argued , fail to recognise their different cultural background , nor do they take account of the different needs of children who at home speak languages other than English . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope you do n't mind my ringing you at home , I got your number from Alice , in the wet fish shop — she said you would n't mind . |