Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for many people , the slide into drug use has been to escape other problems — poor living conditions , no real job prospects and broken relationships at home which all lead to feelings of hopelessness and despair . |
| 2 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 3 | As Nick Gatfield , director of A&R for EMI Records ( UK ) says , ‘ In three and a half years at EMI I have signed only one artist from an unsolicited demo tape . ’ |
| 4 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 5 | She did well at subjects like geography and foreign languages at school which reflected her interests in other countries and cultures . |
| 6 | In his early days at Highbury he was painfully aware of being labelled the first £10,000 footballer . |
| 7 | During her early days at Decca her first attempt ( in October , 1947 ) at the Vier ernste Gesänge , although accorded 78rpm numbers , was never issued . |
| 8 | Yet the move has won the implacable opposition of many economists , of the Borrowing Advisory Committee ( which represents investors and meets Treasury officials each quarter ) and of most of the career civil servants at Treasury itself . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , there are other counter-productive forces at work which should be confronted . |
| 10 | As Minton 's relationship with the Roberts deteriorated he began to gather round him a gang of male students at Camberwell who became known as ‘ Johnny 's Circus ’ . |
| 11 | It 's the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office , remember — and out of it . |
| 12 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 13 | After two or three hours at night I 've just started . |
| 14 | After rapid progress at the School of Fine Arts at Lille he became a pupil of Francisque Rebour and Georges Busson , both respected equestrian painters . |
| 15 | To the frockcoated bankers at Coutts he was a welcome asset in the account of a perennially trying customer . |
| 16 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 17 | I come after finishing the domestic chores at home which is not far off . |
| 18 | At one time there were three mills at Bourton itself , known as the Upper ( or Bourton ) and Lower Mills . |
| 19 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 20 | In London alone there are 600 children at risk who are unsupervised because of staff shortages , and there are over 4,000 vacancies in social services departments , including 700 social work posts . |
| 21 | In one of his few appearances for the junior teams at Preston somebody threw the ball at him and said : ‘ You play soccer , you have a go . ’ |
| 22 | A corollary of the theory is that if only we were all experts at telepathy we could manage without language at all . |
| 23 | The following are examples of the petty attempts at subversion which one finds in the old books on election law . |
| 24 | There are so many subjects at university which you do not take at school . |
| 25 | After the bizarre accuracy of 55 Days at Peking I was confident that I could predict when Brian and I would go home . |
| 26 | The aluminium smelter at Bandar Abbas employed 40 staff at its peak during the summer , some of whom are now working on the major refurbishment of the News International printworks at Wapping which is in its early stages . |
| 27 | From what has been argued so far , it is apparent that there are powerful forces at work which tend to denigrate and diminish old people . |
| 28 | Moreover , he said , Picasso had discovered and ruined the traditional potteries at Vallauris which now turned out only nasty ash-trays with distorted bulls and gross doves . |
| 29 | While we are still all romantics at heart we gardeners are also practical . |
| 30 | Lord Dacre kept twenty-eight indoor servants at Hurstmonceux who , with a constant stream of visitors , needed prodigious quantities of food both from the estates and from farther-flung markets . |