Example sentences of "[conj] at the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repairs can therefore be accomplished on site , or at the Windsor Locks facility . |
| 2 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 3 | Do you aim at the commode , or at the water contained therein ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | When we last surveyed the audit fees of the FT-SE 100 constituents ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1991 , p 12 ) , total audit fees rose by just over 2% , as compared with a much more buoyant 11% — although at the time considered to be modest — the year before ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1990 , p 14 ) . |
| 6 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |
| 7 | The study showed that at the Honours level the non-standard entrants did somewhat better than other students , and the difference was more marked in ordinary and general degree courses . |
| 8 | The sense of comic opera or mini tragedy was reinforced by the fact that at the March meeting the Shetland Islands Council received a letter from the Scottish Office , indicating that as ministers would not be able to deal with the issue ‘ for quite some considerable time ’ , could not the Shetland Islands Council sort out the matter ? |
| 9 | She was eleven years old , with a smooth oval face , and deep , dark brown eyes that at the moment seemed far too big for her face . |
| 10 | Below decks lurked something that at the moment defied the imagination . |
| 11 | So just mentioning that at the moment causes confusion , you do n't know what it is . |
| 12 | By the end of the century , the Chinese government hopes that every peasant family will be living in a brick and tile house with its own toilet and water supply : a dream that at the moment looks impossible . |
| 13 | But during the week immediately following the meeting two fortuitous things happened to the chemists that at the time looked too good opportunities to miss . |
| 14 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 15 | It did matter but we did n't know that at the time did we ? |
| 16 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |
| 17 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 18 | The Celtic Church celebrated the feast days of the Virgin at the same time as the Egyptian Church , rather than at the time decreed by Rome . |
| 19 | Casting a disgusted glance at the buckled trike and at the throng pouring past him , south-bound , Grimm trotted northwards after the Assassin . |
| 20 | They can also be divided crossways into three regions , a well-defined head ( cephalon ) at the front , usually equipped with a pair of eyes , a thorax with a variable number of articulated segments , and at the back end a tail ( or pygidium ) formed by the fusion of several segments . |
| 21 | In a personal letter to Acheson , Jessup described MacArthur as being ‘ quite outraged ’ at the rejection of his own recommendations and at the recalcitrance displayed by the joint chiefs . |
| 22 | From Adkin 109 , London Road proceed towards the ring road and at the roundabout take the second exit into Bayswater Road . |
| 23 | And it begs the question on whose authority the nursing home place was accepted and at the price asked . |
| 24 | This tends to suggest that one should look more closely at the characteristics of those sustained or not sustained at home , and at the decision to admit to an institution . |
| 25 | Take a sheet of paper and at the top write the decision at issue . |
| 26 | Each one had a spiral staircase the length of a lighthouse leading up to it and at the top lived a teacher . |
| 27 | He has England under-21 honours and at the weekend picked up a Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award for the East Anglia and South to celebrate his 21st birthday . |
| 28 | Before looking more closely at the reasons why children come into care , and at the numbers involved , it is necessary to look briefly at the main legislation in this field and the powers and duties of the child care service . |
| 29 | They were also given the job of erecting direction signs to the nearest lavatory in corridors and at the exits to lecture rooms . |
| 30 | Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry . |