Example sentences of "[adj] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading across from £789 , we find B would value this at about the equivalent of £410 , whilst the alternative certainty equivalent under contract 1 is £400 , as we saw previously ( because the owner gets £0 or £1000 under contract 1 ) . |
| 2 | This was erected in 1801 at about the same time as some of the farmhouses in the parish . |
| 3 | they 're not practical people , th erm , and it may very well be that there are some people who are very good at the theory , but erm , are not very good at at the practice . |
| 4 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a cottage or small farmhouse , ‘ Intended for a Gentleman in the New Forest … as an object to be seen from his Mansion ’ ( Fig. 25 ) , has a much less extensive landscape than that of Blaise Castle in mind , but it is typical of many at about the turn of the century . |
| 5 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 6 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
| 7 | He needed no reminder that it was his own union which had prospered in many British ports while Tillett 's Tea Operatives ' Union established in July 1887 at about the same time as his own had failed even to develop any wider organization in the Port of London itself . |
| 8 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |
| 9 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |