Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , most schools at present do not expect the student to spend very much of his school time in individual study except at the whim or discretion of the teacher , and the only facilities for such study are the school library ( when available ) and , for the older students in the sixth form , sometimes a sixth-form study room . |
| 2 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 3 | The answer is that he can maintain the action if at the time of the defendant 's act he had ( a ) ownership and possession of the goods , or ( b ) possession of them ; or ( c ) an immediate right to possess them , but without either ownership or actual possession . |
| 4 | Now I , I wo n't , I wo n't go for this vote because at the end of the day I I do n't think it 'd be er er productive , it 'd be counterproductive erm , I do hope that you around the chamber tonight , do look inside and say look if you 're fed up with it coming to the council Mr whatever your name is , I forget , the new guy er , it will only come back next year . |
| 5 | The accused , the finder , was not guilty of theft because at the moment of appropriation the coins were not property belonging to another . |
| 6 | This would clearly be unfair on the defendant because at the end of the period of the dependency the whole of the capital sum would remain . |
| 7 | Over the next months , rival consortia considered how to finance the new investment while at the Transport Department we could do little more than wait . |
| 8 | In Section Two , leaders Bangor have a tough trip to Down while at the bottom , RUC have a chance to close the gap on South Antrim when they meet the Lisburn team at Newforge . |
| 9 | ‘ I am uncertain about my future as at the moment it seems we do n't have a manager . ’ |
| 10 | Traditionally , the notion of personal response and what the Newbolt Report called ‘ literature as a living thing ’ were regarded by all schools as at the heart of English study , but there is no place for them in Zapp 's perspective . |
| 11 | ( Did an Edwina Currie when at the MMB , by speaking out against cows being injected with a hormone that can increase yields but which , she feared , would cause consumers to feel milk was not ‘ natural ’ . |
| 12 | Apart from that , in midlife as at every age , a good cut — about once every six weeks — is the single most important way to keep hair looking good , with an occasional soft perm or demi wave , when required . |
| 13 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 14 | If the sciences were less subordinate to theology at the time of Newton than at the time of Copernicus , had the Reformation in religion created favorable conditions for a reformation in science ? |
| 15 | It would ban all advertising of tobacco products except at the point of sale , ie the newsagent 's shop or supermarket counter . |
| 16 | Richard had bitter enemies and his battles with the Archbishop of York concerning the seniority of Canterbury over York were still reverberating around the cloisters of the two cities although at the time of his death the supremacy of Canterbury had been resolved . |
| 17 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 18 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 19 | This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice . |
| 20 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 21 | Again , it is a peculiarity of unfair dismissal law that an industrial tribunal does not have the power to consider the fairness of dismissal where at the time of dismissal the employer was conducting a lockout or the employee was taking part in a strike or other industrial action . |
| 22 | The relation between stress and strain in rubbers and other polymers capable of high reversible extensions can not be that of Hooke 's law except at the start of the deformation where the strain approaches an infinitesimal value . |
| 23 | Adidas is also attacking the bulk end of the market by offering shoes at more affordable prices , with greater strength in the £35–£45 range than at the top of the market . |
| 24 | In the USA far more states now hold party primaries than at the start of the post-war period , and the sequence of primary results is increasingly the key determinant of presidential candidate selection . |
| 25 | We have already discussed the question of fuel used in cremations which , at least for the larger cremation cemeteries , argues that the cremation itself may be more likely to have occurred at home than at the cemetery . |
| 26 | Second , American industry has much less spare capacity than at the start of previous recoveries . |
| 27 | I suggest that the Labour and particularly Liberal feel , think very carefully about the quality of service that is provided by this county er council cos at the moment there is neither justice or equity in it . |
| 28 | And yet we are not which Conservative because at the end of the day you will be an S S A which is expenditure or ie . |
| 29 | Irrespective of the actual method of replication , the series is found spread across southern England from the Isle of Wight to Suffolk , indicating the extent of social interconnectedness whether at the level of the manufacturer , the ‘ purchaser ’ or the wearer ; people travelled considerable distances during the period ( Arnold 1980 ; Hines 1984 ) . |
| 30 | The diff lock may affect the warranty on a new vehicle as at the moment they are not Land Rover approved fitments . |