Example sentences of "[verb] at [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | No trace of a fort has been located at or near the later town , and only three isolated pieces of military equipment are known . |
2 | Tony Benn and Dennis Skinner , who with boring and automatic regularity voted against the leadership , have with boring and automatic regularity come at or near the top . |
3 | The muscles are absolutely rigid , proof that the grasp occurred at or about the moment of death . |
4 | They include the Authority 's discharge and trasnfer policies , most of the deaths occurred at or around the time when patients were moved . |
5 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
6 | Similarly , the ‘ rediscovery of poverty ’ through studies conducted by people such as Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend revealed hundreds of thousands living at or below the standard of income recommended by the National Assistance scales and a continuing increase in the numbers claiming National Assistance benefits . |
7 | Unfortunately , these amps suffer from a form of distortion known as ‘ crossover distortion ’ which occurs at and near the zero crossings of the output signal . |
8 | For example , imagine a situation of a ‘ tight ’ domestic monetary policy , in which UK banks are operating at or near the limit of their desired balances : deposits ratio . |
9 | Moreover , the strength of the positive signals broadly equated to that obtained with the IS900-PCR positive control ( equivalent to two M paratuberculosis genomes ) and suggests that the assay was operating at or near the limit of its sensitivity . |
10 | Conversely , if the UK limit is lower than the EC limit , the exporter of an item valued at or above the UK limit has to use the UK application form . |
11 | Direct classification search , where the user enters a classification code and the system responds with records of items classified at or near the entered code . |
12 | John Paul Gallagher , who has been appointed as chaplain to the U.S. , Menwith Hill base , is with the U.S. Bishopric of the Forces and can be contacted at or via the base . |
13 | ‘ failed to accord precedence to a foot passenger on the carriageway ’ This point means that the offending driver did not stop at or before the ‘ give-way ’ line , where provided , which is one metre from the limits of the crossing or at the limits to accord precedence . |
14 | The TRC is calculated on form A2317 from the Total number of manhours ( ie not per man ) spent at or in the locality of the customer 's premises only ( travelling time should not be included ) at the following Hour Charge Rates . ’ |
15 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
16 | The snag is that small dace , bleak , and other small fish that feed at or near the surface , can devour much of this loose feed before it reaches bottom . |
17 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
18 | A party may require his opponent to supply copies of documents which he is entitled to inspect ; the notice requiring the copy document must be served at or before the time when inspection takes place and must contain an undertaking to pay the proper charge , which charges are set out in Appendix A item 4 ( Ord 14 , r 5A ) . |
19 | On the other hand , a third of the retired today live at or below the poverty line . |
20 | The study will also assess whether such rational management systems are presentational devices , as some critics claim , by assessing the extent to which management work and policing on the ground are directed at and by the rational management system . |
21 | ( 6 ) Subject as mentioned below , the tender may be at a fixed price ( tenders in excess of the number of shares sought being scaled down pro rata ) , or a maximum price ( if the offer is over-subscribed , the striking price will be the lowest price at which the number of shares sought is met , with everyone tendering at or below the striking price receiving that price and if the offer is over-subscribed at the striking price acceptances will be scaled down pro rata or balloted ) . |
22 | So , moving on to another requirement of this law , which states that ‘ When a penalty kick is taken the following shall apply : ( a ) The kick must be taken without undue delay ; ( b ) the kick must be taken at or behind the mark on a line through the mark ; ( c ) The kicker may kick the ball in any direction and he may play the ball again , without any restriction except if he has indicated to the referee that he intends to attempt a kick for goal ’ . |
23 | Thus the last burst of activity in the UK housing market — from the mid-Eighties to 1989 , when many of the largest mortgages were taken on — was based on the assumption that some rates would remain at or below the ten per cent threshold . |
24 | ‘ If we can stay at or near the top until Christmas , then our chances get even better and we can certainly expect to finish in the top six at least . |
25 | Governments were supported by economic theorists in applying the prescriptions of short-term equilibrium analysis — and thereby supposedly maintaining at or near the full employment of resources — as the means for achieving long-term growth . |
26 | As well as being published in a local newspaper , the proposal must be posted at or near the main gate of the school and in ‘ a conspicuous place ’ in the area and made available for inspection at the school ‘ or at any other place within that area to which members of the public may conveniently have access ’ ( SI 1989 , No. 1469 ) . |
27 | For the remaining steps shown in figure 5 , structural changes occur in the sugar puckers at and beyond the site of the backbone transition leading to much worse correlation with the NMR data . |
28 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
29 | Low-grade copper and nickel sulphides developed at or near the contacts . |
30 | In reality there was already primitive , and in some cases quite sophisticated , desktop publishing software being developed at and around the same time as Aldus emerged with PageMaker for the Apple Macintosh . |