Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |
| 2 | I 'm looking to select patients who have a high pressure and a low flow and for the sake of this study I 've drawn my lines at fifty centimetres of water for detrusor pressure during voiding and , and er fifteen mils per second . |
| 3 | The strain of possible air raids and bad news from abroad was at last removed from our lives , and being still in the Air Force , and single , my only responsibilities were to do my job properly and polish my buttons at regular intervals . |
| 4 | THE Scotch whisky industry was warned yesterday that it must aim its activities at younger drinkers to arrest the decline in sales . |
| 5 | Their discussions at all levels had been friendly and useful . |
| 6 | ABOUT 40 talented musicians from the North-East are to show off their skills at two concerts at Darlington Arts Centre . |
| 7 | Environment Minister Hans Alders plans to introduce " life-cycle management " , wherein manufacturers will be responsible for their products at all stages , including transporting , sorting , recycling and remarketing . |
| 8 | Operational balances were reduced ( and advances increased ) by the fact that the borrower wrote cheques which other people paid into their accounts at other banks . |
| 9 | At the same time , the figure for ‘ operational balances at the Bank of England ’ falls by an equal amount as the recipients of his cheques pay them into their accounts at different banks and the cheques are presented for payment at the issuing bank . |
| 10 | When families like those in the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett hold on to their houses at all costs , it is only to discover that their houses hold on to them . |
| 11 | People acquire their homes at different times and in different circumstances . |
| 12 | G. To be successful farmers need to be sure of being able to sell their outputs at reasonable prices . |
| 13 | She wrote no books , but her strong views on education were expressed in her evidence in 1894 to the Bryce commission on secondary education ; in her speeches at educational conferences ; and in her pamphlets , especially ‘ The Education of the Majority ’ ( a plea for middle schools for boys and girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen ) , ‘ The Training of Teachers ’ , and ‘ A National Education and its Application to Wales ’ . |
| 14 | Although they had certain rights especially under equity law , few women were willing to go to court against their husbands At lower levels of society the forms of marriage tended to be more relaxed . |
| 15 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 16 | As it is , he slyly suggests that minor artists may look down their noses at major ones and that ‘ important ’ work may be left to persons of an inferior kennel , like the Russians , the Germans , the Americans , who , poor dears , know no better . |
| 17 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 18 | Throughout April about 1,000 fleet operators are being given the chance to put Peugeot 's entire diesel car range through its paces at various venues around the country , allowing road and track driving . |
| 19 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 20 | Many professional people , such as judges and teachers , commenced their duties at stated hours , and by the late Middle Ages even the often unruly undergraduates at universities such as Oxford were subjected to the discipline of fixed timetables . |
| 21 | Old people who took in their grandchildren at such moments might have few resources and little space themselves . |
| 22 | some aspect of ‘ harmoniousness ’ between mother and child may pitch their descriptions at different levels . |
| 23 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 24 | The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times , just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross . |
| 25 | The Passport Agency is using advertisements to suggest that people renew their passports at other times of the year . |
| 26 | Marines hit the ground either running or flopping on to their stomachs at three points along the 10,000ft runways as they took up positions . |
| 27 | Such a system has become increasingly popular , Turner says , because companies are becoming increasingly interested in management accounting , and so need to have information at their fingertips at all times . |
| 28 | As sailing boats bob beside the quay , visitors take their places at open-air cafés set out beneath the shade of cool chestnut trees . |
| 29 | At present , they argue , landfill prices are actually declining as second-rate operators , in both the private and public sector , stuff rubbish into their dumps at bargain-basement prices . |
| 30 | Some governing bodies may consider that their needs at both levels presently are satisfied or that they have advised us of their requirements . |