Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are the groups most at risk from developing secondary complications . |
| 2 | He spoke on a radio programme on which Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley defended AIDS spending cuts , saying the campaign should now be aimed at ‘ groups most at risk ’ rather than at the wider population . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think it is time to move on to target the groups most at risk , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Indirect Rule , then , with its implicit exaltation of the man-on-the-spot over the man in the central office , set the seal of legitimacy on the centrifugal tendencies long at work in the British Colonial Service , and provided them with a rational institutional expression independent of the existence of a frontier . |
| 5 | EARLY ultrasound scanning may be able to pick up pregnancies most at risk of Down 's syndrome . |
| 6 | Because of the high costs involved , councillors are being asked to consider providing additional security measures at schools most at risk . |
| 7 | Animals most at risk include the walrus and the polar bear , and among plants many species of alpine flowers are predicted to decline . |
| 8 | They were six-five ahead and Drew and Ricky had their heads together at half-time . |
| 9 | Are shoppers somehow at fault if they have no concept of liquidity preference ? |
| 10 | If the action project were succeeding in sustaining at home people who without its services would have been in an institution at an earlier date , then we would expect the action sample clients still at home at six months and 12 months to be more disadvantaged in the possession of factors likely to affect home care potential . |
| 11 | The three characteristics were : an OBS score of eight or more , living alone , and without a closely involved informal carer ( only one of the control sample clients still at home at one year possessed all three of these characteristics ) . |
| 12 | It has brought together expertise in pedagogy , learning resources , library provision and a range of curriculum subjects both at county level and in each school , and this has inevitably been an occasion of staff development and awareness-raising for all those involved . |
| 13 | As [ an ] example of such measures , all having the same effect — of keeping subjects perpetually at work and in poverty — we may mention the pyramids of Egypt … |
| 14 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 15 | Those that were not , she supposed might be of animals now at rest under the wooden crosses in Maria Yackle 's back garden . |
| 16 | She reconciled styles seemingly at variance with each other , the formal one advocated by Reginald Blomfield and the so-called wild gardening of William Robinson [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | ‘ We have the best sailing and the best facilities for boat owners , with prices of waterfront homes here at rock bottom . ’ |
| 18 | In the UK , until the so-called marginal areas were brought into an extended LFA early in 1984 , only one zone of handicap covered the whole of the LFA , ranging from relatively fertile grass pastures almost at sea level to the summits of Britain 's highest mountains . |
| 19 | The whole history of Middle-earth seems to show that good is attained only at vast expense while evil recuperates almost at will . |
| 20 | The teacher had noticed that Martha held her books almost at arm 's length . |
| 21 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 22 | Take these tablets just at bedtime . |
| 23 | I am ready to keep the pack law , to do a good turn every day , and to help my parents especially at home . |
| 24 | Five-door models only at present , three-door , estate and diesels to come . |
| 25 | Its walls are massive ( up to 20 feet thick at base ) and its openings are small and well protected ( 302 ) . |
| 26 | If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play . |
| 27 | If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing . |
| 28 | The home secretary has said that the development of community radio raises difficult problems for broadcasting policy and that ‘ … it would not be right to take matters further at present ’ . |
| 29 | In my case there was no homosexuality — or heterosexuality , for that matter — to conceal , but I think there was a certain amount of gender confusion , nurtured by circumstances both at home and at school , which contributed to my sense of loss , the loss of self . |
| 30 | Men too may need to learn to delegate duties both at work and at home . |