Example sentences of "[conj] [det] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We probably know quite a lot of people who are taking exams of one sort or another at the moment . |
| 2 | Such questions have been raised in the world of education , where those at the chalkface are fed-up with being assessed and put into league tables . |
| 3 | No , there had always been routes through from Earth into the Dominions , other than that at the Retreat . |
| 4 | The two categories of CO adsorption heats are based on the K precoverage being higher or lower than that at the work function minimum . |
| 5 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 7 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 8 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 9 | It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it . |
| 10 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 11 | Since those at the front shout loudly , you wo n't necessarily know that those at the back ca n't . |
| 12 | He took to task a nurse from Guy 's hospital who interrupted him to say that those at the hospital were improving the quality of the health care they delivered . |
| 13 | The seats were all reversible except those at the canopy ends , which were fixed ; they had three plank solid backs to foil pickpockets . |
| 14 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 15 | Very frequently people closer to today 's marketplace than to the board are more realistic about the possibilities for their business than those at the top . |
| 16 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 17 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
| 18 | Primary-school teachers have to work harder at reducing their remoteness from large aspects of policy than those at the secondary or FE stages . |
| 19 | The excess mortality is not limited to underground workers , since workers above ground have a raised standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) for gastric cancer ( 143 ) , which is similar to that for underground workers other than those at the coal face ( SMR 144 ) . |
| 20 | There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex . |
| 21 | BA wants to put Gatwick-based pilots , cabin crew and ground staff on lower rates of pay than those at the airline 's main base at Heathrow . |
| 22 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 23 | He must have been more fed up than most at the defeat after opening the scoring in the 13th minute , his first goal of the season . |
| 24 | Renault dealers seem happier than most at the moment , buoyed by the success of the Clio . |
| 25 | Cyclic sedimentation has long been recognised here , with the succession at the east end of the island largely marine , and that at the west end largely continental . |
| 26 | Its bronze-gold wings were tightly wrapped around its body but the long equine head turned this way and that at the end of a remarkably prehensile neck . |
| 27 | Secondly , it has a very chastening effect on the inspector who knows that everything he says in his report is liable to be critically examined by a review board and , if necessary , corrected for all to see — and this at the whim of those whose actions he is criticising . |
| 28 | A clamping bar of aluminium or brass is needed across the top of the assembly to ensure that the clamping force is uniformly distributed over the cross-section of the outer limbs and another at the bottom , though this can be a simple flat strip of brass or aluminium . |
| 29 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 30 | And another at the weekend , or two then , perhaps ? |