Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It aims more at political and peaceful penetration than at profit . |
| 2 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every employee while at work — |
| 3 | Table 3.5 shows the main categories of holders of government stock as at end-March 1991 . |
| 4 | If you do n't act for the mortgagee , you should now write to the mortgagee or the mortgagee 's solicitor , asking for a redemption figure as at completion date . |
| 5 | If fewer convictions result , this is a price which must be paid and a price which the police force as at present trained are unable to accept . |
| 6 | Body temperature is higher in the daytime than at night , and urine flow is lower overnight . |
| 7 | HLCAs should be fixed at a slightly lower level than at present , e.g. 80% below present values in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ LFA . |
| 8 | Well , then that was at a higher level than at present , but we 're not going to take on at ten per cent interest . |
| 9 | Fourth , social security benefits are so generous that many people are financially better off out of work than at work . |
| 10 | We can , however , have a much greater influence than at present over how such developments impinge upon professional practices . |
| 11 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 12 | There is a need for us to develop the communication skills of our horticultural staff to a broader degree than at present . |
| 13 | The paper proposes that arm 's length inspection units should report to chief executives instead of directors of social work as at present . |
| 14 | Such speed limits result either in widespread disregard of the law as at present , ‘ which ’ is bad because it is habit-forming , or they allow the police an undesirable discretion as to which laws they enforce and against whom they enforce them . |
| 15 | the Rural Areas Committee as at present constituted should cease to exist . |
| 16 | Both sexes recognisable by heavy shovel-shaped bill producing characteristic head-down attitude when at rest or swimming on water . |
| 17 | How does the Prime Minister justify sending his son to a private school where nearly £4,000 a year is spent on each child when at present half the children in Tory-run Cambridgeshire 's secondary schools receive only half that amount and when that authority is currently reducing its budget by almost £2 million ? |
| 18 | Despite this , it seems that what is now on offer is not the true independence of monetary policy which would come from free competition between different currencies and policies ( whether the currencies remained in the public sector as at present or whether they were in private hands ) , but instead the imposition of one economic and monetary policy by a powerful and unaccountable institution . |
| 19 | These include possible reductions in care in the community owing to inadequate funding and the knock on effects on hospitals , which may face even greater difficulties in returning elderly people to the community than at present . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that the sultans were more often at war than at peace with their Christian neighbours north of the Danube-Sava line , trade with Christendom flourished . |
| 21 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 22 | But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home . |
| 23 | Your application will be even better supported if you can give examples of when you 've had to work on your own , as when decorating your new house or when preparing the accounts of a small business whilst at home with your children . |
| 24 | He would have corrected his flattened and crooked nose — broken in an accident when at school — immediately if he had ever had the money . |
| 25 | It must not be concluded that the Sahara was well watered in the Pleistocene : it probably had a hot steppe type climate rather than a true desert climate as at present . |
| 26 | The Devonian Orcadian basin in northern Scotland contains lenses of stratiform baryte and manganese as at Balfreish , south-east of Inverness . |
| 27 | At Canjuers we followed the same routine as at Orange . |
| 28 | For though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely , that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal … |
| 29 | The closest he comes to it is , I think , in the passage quoted earlier in which he says that ‘ though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal ’ . |
| 30 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |