Example sentences of "[prep] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time .
2 The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could .
3 The Killinghall bypass er does bypass some of the severe bends of at the southern ends .
4 Yeah I can get her to wait down sort of at the other end .
5 Er , if those that were earning over a certain amount , who certainly do n't need this child benefit to same the degree anyway , that 's those of at the lower end of the pay scale we could they could certainly save a lot of money , and they would n't have to do the squeeze down on the ones that would have the most .
6 That principle is designed to encourage waste to be disposed of at the nearest available facility .
7 The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground .
8 Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute .
9 They should arrive for ten past at the latest .
10 Looking at the experiences of mothers in these households provides an insight into what life is like at the sharper end of economic and social change in Britain .
11 They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) .
12 The new managing director of Savacentre Mike Broomfield with at the hot chicken counter in Merton .
13 Whenever you decide to pick some wild flowers — which is not an idea I concur with at the best of times — you must never , ever , remove part of the root as this reduces the size of the plant that other people could enjoy .
14 The mind was a delicate mechanism that he disliked interfering with at the best of times .
15 The diffused light , which we started with at the collective level , has become a powerful current , and we ourselves can be the channel for it .
16 This is part of a wider public policy in relation to health care , where Primary Health Care is being seen as the central component of the Health Care System and an accepted general principle that Health problems be dealt with at the lowest level of complexity , and acknowledges that a well-informed , well-motivated participating community is necessary for the achievement of health targets .
17 Areas of political life which are best dealt with multi-nationally must obviously be dealt with at the appropriate decision-making level .
18 The message Chairman an and er having an idea of , of your second item of urgent business erm it , this perhaps provides the link the important er point that I wanted to emphasise was that the issue of rainfall , the defect on erm the drainage of an area and er water catchment areas and so on , drainage basins is a matter which can only be dealt with at the strategic level and it is therefore of considerable concern to me in view of local government and the questions that is raising about the future of strategic planning could actually make this coordination much more difficult in the future , unless we take steps now to protect the er strategic planning , whatever form local government takes strategic planning itself also needs a degree of
19 It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ .
20 It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area .
21 In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers .
22 It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time .
23 With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) .
24 Unlike CFCs , CO2 emissions can not be dealt with at the micro level by changing technologies : CO2 is so directly linked with almost all productive technology that its control must have profound macroeconomic consequences .
25 So her husband brought the case in the Guild room on the Tuesday night and erm I was sort of throw 'd in at the deep end because they were mostly older women and they all said , oh well you 're secretary erm yo I said yes , but I do n't know the Co-op dual structure .
26 This meant that Alison was more than ready for her next challenge as one of four marketing controllers appointed after the branch strategy review — in at the deep end again .
27 in at the same time , yeah .
28 And they wore silk socks that would have been frowned upon at the more establishment country clubs in the Hamptons .
29 It is important that the explanatory statement should remain accurate at the time at which it is voted upon at the court-ordered meeting .
30 The decisions will be voted upon at the later date .
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