Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 2 | This is the moment that the group , believed to be a family , helped themselves to jewellery worth more than £3,000 at the Hatton House Jewellers in Bletchley . |
| 3 | We believed that people at the conference would want to examine the validity of those claims and that official government representation would therefore be valuable . |
| 4 | Mr Rodgers said that he was not an opponent of the airport and added that staff at the base had been very helpful . |
| 5 | So many people were interested in the bridal outfits that staff at the Liphook shop are thinking of extending into the hire business for formal special occasion wear . |
| 6 | He learned that staff at the Museum of Transport had discovered Common Clothes Moths inside one of the cars on display . |
| 7 | The depute fiscal , Brian Crookshanks , told the court that staff at the stables had noticed early last year she had become more withdrawn and was putting on weight . |
| 8 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 9 | He says that staff at the DSS count the aid trip as a holiday , and wo n't pay him while he 's out of the country . |
| 10 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 11 | ROS leaps up and bellows at the audience . ) |
| 12 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 13 | It highlighted the use of selective repression by the security forces and military , including the killing of students and staff at the University of San Carlos and of leaders of displaced campesinos and the unemployed . |
| 14 | She said patients and staff at the hospice were looking forward to the visit . |
| 15 | These days Brian spends his working life alongside his family and staff at the Muppet workshops in London and Manhattan . |
| 16 | An injunction is in force banning any approach to the child or friends and staff at the home . |
| 17 | The time between May 1980 and August 1982 is very important to pupils and staff at the school . |
| 18 | The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands . |
| 19 | Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme . |
| 20 | Most of the birds were pairs , and staff at the sanctuary say it 's devastated the centre 's breeding programme . |
| 21 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 22 | This morning local volunteers and staff at the care home joined police in a search for Mr Mayo . |
| 23 | In a report he recommends specific hazard training courses for teachers attending swimming lessons and staff at the borough 's baths . |
| 24 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 25 | One longhouse has survived almost intact and can be leased for holidays from the Landmark Trust ; another is disguised , although the former arrangements with cattle at one end and people at the other can still be distinguished ; the third has been rebuilt . |
| 26 | One of the great difficulties faced by the South African Government and people at the moment is the need to see growth in their economy , which runs at present with no growth , as against a population growth of around 3 per cent . |
| 27 | En route to the train-tube terminal Jaq comm-called Grimm to carry away as much as he could from the hotel suite , settle their account if challenged , and rendezvous at the Tormentum . |
| 28 | ‘ They are over 30 , put performance well down on their list of priorities , and reliability , value for money and mpg at the top . |
| 29 | Average weights are 1,200kg for bulls and 700kg for cows , and their heights are , respectively , 150cm and 134cm at the withers . |
| 30 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |