Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , our one-year programme is designed to allow students to take the occupational SVQ at level II in either administration or finance at the same time as the general SVQ at level II in business administration . |
| 2 | Next is the graphic equaliser , also switchable in or out , with a powerful 15 dB of boost or cut at the 7 well-chosen frequency centres of 50Hz , 100Hz , 230Hz , 500Hz , 1kHz , 2kHz and 5kHz . |
| 3 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 4 | 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . " |
| 5 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 6 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 7 | In sharp contrast to Blauner , who argues that this ‘ objective integration ’ will lead to social integration of workers and management , Mallet argues that this objective integration has the opposite effect , leading to a new form of revolutionary consciousness that aims at the overthrow of the existing pattern of social relations in the enterprise . |
| 8 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 9 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 10 | The plateau we crossed before the final pyramid was hostile , the snow wind-beaten to a hard , glittering crust that squeaked at the approach of our boots and then gave a satisfying crunch as we went through it . |
| 11 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 12 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 13 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 14 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 15 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 16 | Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century . |
| 17 | The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed . |
| 18 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 19 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 20 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 21 | She slumped in the far corner of the white Corniche and watched her mother nervously hugging the steering wheel and peering at the road ahead . |
| 22 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 23 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 24 | But it met a lump of grief and anger at the back of her throat and came out more like a sob . |
| 25 | Benedict took the card and glanced at the name . |
| 26 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 27 | ‘ Just a case of first-night nerves , ’ I mutter , unlocking my legs and grasping at the steaming mug.Ruthie Henshall opens tonight in Crazy For You at the Prince Edward Theatre , London . |
| 28 | Even at four in the morning , if he woke during a rare , sleepless night , Dexter liked to brush back the curtains of his bedroom and marvel at the twinkling lights . |
| 29 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 30 | This violent thoroughfare , with its fumes , speed and bandits at the traffic lights , is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell . |