Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 2 | Williams doubts whether he was really influenced by his teachers or contemporaries at the Slade . |
| 3 | Dependent conditionals are thus to be regarded in the way of the primitive conception or conceptions at the base of any logical system . |
| 4 | He shouts heads or tails at the beginning of the game and then F*****g dissappears : - ) ) ) |
| 5 | ( Based on O'Connor & Arnold 1961. ) heading The word or words at the top of a section of printed matter . |
| 6 | Or survivals at the level of colour : liking for flat and intense colours , local earth and vegetable dyes , which may go all the way back to the ancient textile traditions such as that of the Paracas culture in Peru . |
| 7 | Similarly , if your rug becomes wrinkled , out of shape or curls at the edges , this should be left to an expert . |
| 8 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 9 | The forms tell strongly on the curving surface and the figure-zone is widened for them , its background left bare or scattered with small flower-shapes , a calyx of pointed leaves or petals at the base and the areas of fine lines reduced to narrow borders of two or three ( figs. 7 and 8 ) . |
| 10 | A search of the Pennington Papers brought to light a declaration of sale of equipment & buildings at the mines above Tilberthwaite ( on Muncaster territory ) which had formerly belonged to Patrickson & Co . |
| 11 | ‘ wilfully and indecently ’ 'Wilfully' can be proved from the accused 's own admission or from his comments or actions at the time of the offence . |
| 12 | A preview will tell you what the software can do at the moment — we do n't go too heavily on any minor bugs or inconsistencies at the preview stage , but we do criticise bad design and form an opinion about whether the software will be up to scratch when it gets released . |
| 13 | Discretion is the better part of valour , or forewarned is forearmed : Associated Press , writing up IBM Corp 's layoffs in New York State , says ‘ Company officials said there was no violence or threats at the plants , although a Kingston sporting goods store that sells guns closed up shop Tuesday morning . ’ |
| 14 | British Rail tell us they 've no problems or delays at the moment . |
| 15 | So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more . |
| 16 | 50,000 Lire credit for snacks or drinks at the bar for all guests staying 14 nights arriving on 16 and 23 May , 5 Sept . |
| 17 | The end of the dock when at the upper part of its inclined railway makes a practically water-tight joint with the standing work at the extremity of what may be termed the head bay or pond of which the dock then forms a continuation , there being also a gate or gates at the end of the bay to retain the water when the dock is absent . |
| 18 | These , it was argued , concern the correction of errors of fact or omissions at the time of birth . |
| 19 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 20 | And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end . |
| 21 | Security grilles give more protection than window locks alone , and are ideal for the more vulnerable windows or doors at the back or side of a property . |
| 22 | The sheet can be weighted down with sand or stones at the edges , and it should be left in place for three days , by which time it will be safe to commence subsequent building work . |
| 23 | The rocks or stones at the pool boundary retain the bog-garden soil yet allow water to percolate through from the pool . |
| 24 | Hardly surprising that meetings at the DoH have been know to take a different turn from that envisaged by civil servants . |
| 25 | The prosecution said that drinkers at the Volunteer Inn at Great Somerford saw Mantack go into a phone box with a large tape recorder . |
| 26 | GERALD RATNER 'S pay cut from £574,000 to £383,000 a year cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain 's near 2,000 shops ballooned from £17,700,000 to £30,600,000 in the six months to August . |
| 27 | ‘ This is the only thing that matters at the moment between us , is n't it ? ’ |
| 28 | It is of note that workers at the coal face ( cutters , hewers , and getters ) have only a slightly raised SMR for gastric cancer ( 113 ) which is not as great as that for the remainder of the mineworkers . |
| 29 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 30 | It is not known why Arcadius was opposed to Theuderic 's regime , but Riculf quite clearly hoped that changes at the centre would improve his prospects in his own civitas . |