Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This low incidence of visual handicap means , in effect , that not every local education authority in England and Wales will have a range of appropriate educational placements for the severely visually impaired pupil , and it may be necessary to look for a solution in regional terms , or perhaps attendance at a residential special school may be considered . |
| 2 | Trinity College at Cambridge can claim more members of the Order than all the 30 or so colleges at Oxford put together ( 25 against 20 ) . |
| 3 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 4 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 5 | Andersen has a net book value of $14m , and the listing is expected to raise at least $25m , or approximately £17m at current exchange rates . |
| 6 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 7 | Either today or tomorrow morning at the latest . |
| 8 | Minutes were felt to be factors in these results , whereas in the Potteries hours , or even days at times , were hardly felt to be such factors . |
| 9 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 10 | Demanding pay for childcare does not necessarily imply that only women at home would receive it . |
| 11 | But they recommend that only patients at risk of heart disease should be tested . |
| 12 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 13 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 14 | De Gaulle 's foul temper in the days immediately before and after the Normandy landings reflected more than just annoyance at the exclusion of his movement : he was still confident that events were moving in his favour , but the huge imponderable of American intentions remained a source of concern . |
| 15 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 16 | E E E East Coast Regional Railways and presumably Freight at one time . |
| 17 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
| 18 | Legislation is interpreted by the judiciary and perhaps lawyers at least should now also turn their attention to the form and style of judgments . |
| 19 | However , except for the most self-sealed at one end — and how many of these are left after even Burma appears to consider re-entering the world ? — and perhaps Japan at the other extreme , the ‘ national economy ’ is not what it was . |
| 20 | Also for creative arts , a weekly period of music and art would be insufficient ; rather , a rotational arrangement should be employed which allowed pupils to spend more time on music , say , for part of two years , with the opportunity for work in art and perhaps drama at other times ' . |
| 21 | • 79% wanted their baby at a local hospital and only 8% at home . |
| 22 | In Tenerife , seven nights at the Laguna Park II Apartments starts at £159 per person and only £225 at the hotel Oasis Paradiso on half board during December , just when everyone is shivering in Britain . |
| 23 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 24 | Nithard gives more information than any other contemporary about how kings , and especially Charles at the very outset of his reign , measured up to these requirements . |
| 25 | And yesterday councillors at Barry , South Wales , condemned it as ‘ absolutely crazy ’ and called for an inquiry . |
| 26 | To the working class , life in the village means family life and possibly life at work , to the middle class spiralists , life in the village means life in the voluntary associations . |
| 27 | The status quo position will often result in less relevant , less complete statements in favour of timeliness ; full financial statements favour relevance , completeness and possibly understandability at a cost both in terms of timeliness and actual expense . |
| 28 | Long stretches of these beaches front seaside towns and are now of little ornithological interest ; the most important are around the Selsey peninsular , particularly on both sides of the entrance to Pagham Harbour , Shoreham Beach , between Newhaven and Seaford ( the Tidemills ) , at the mouth of the Cuckmere River , to the east of Eastbourne ( the Crumbles ) , bordering Pevensey Levels , at Rye Harbour , and further east at the county boundary . |
| 29 | His arm touched Martin 's occasionally as he brushed with short back and forth movements at the front of his mouth and then the toothbrush plunging to the back . |
| 30 | The Institute 's political profile has also risen with senior Government Ministers now regularly attending Institute events and also attendance at the Conservative Party Conference . |