Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most .
2 Indeed , the only formal requirement for economic evaluation of alternative plans or programmes at the current time is that of option appraisal for schemes where one of the options is a capital scheme with an initial outlay of £10 million or more ( DHSS , 1981 ) .
3 For example , inequalities of political power and access to land should not substantially weight the costs and benefits of conservation measures to or from particular groups or classes at the local level .
4 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 .
5 He shouts heads or tails at the beginning of the game and then F*****g dissappears : - ) ) )
6 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 .
7 Some specialise in eating timber , boring away inside posts and logs until they become hollow shells that collapse at the touch of a finger .
8 Singer tom is still all southern manners and embarrassment at the lads wanking around .
9 On the whole , men are more involved in the political organizations and women at the grassroots level , particularly in the Christian communities .
10 We disposed of surplus property and focused our investment expenditure on quayside facilities where we bought the former Texaco fuel terminal in Aberdeen , which is being substantially upgraded , and spent £1.2 million on building 27,000 square feet of offices and warehousing at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen .
11 Catherine or St Catherine 's Hill itself constituted a Pandora 's box of small-town trades and occupations at the time : everything from a gingerbread maker to a hairdresser , a staymaker , a breechesmaker , Charles Tucker the coalminer , John Golledge the blind schoolmaster , Mrs Allen at the Castle public house , and even John Ward , who seemed to be able to support himself by practising the noble art of a ‘ horse jockey ’ .
12 One of the prominent candidates and activists at the Hunan Teachers ' College was eventually arrested and sent for three years to a ‘ re-education through labour ’ camp .
13 Lord McGregor of Durris told journalists and editors at the annual What the Papers Say Awards lunch yesterday that critics of the present commission had not grasped that in some situations the law was powerless to regulate people 's behaviour .
14 Yesterday 's letters to the Times from both the senior journalists and managers at the BBC indicate it is now safe for leading figures within the corporation to show their head above the parapet in a combined campaign to retain the director general .
15 ‘ When was the last time you saw me sweat like this , ’ he asked the throng of journalists and photographers at the news conference .
16 The list of addresses and publications at the end of this booklet includes sources of advice on how to draw up a policy to suit your own particular circumstances .
17 They left after that drink and went back to the house at Lochgair ; Rory and Kenneth cleared a tangled choke of bushes and shrubs at the rear of the garden , where Mary wanted the lawn extended .
18 The NII , which blames staff shortages and hold-ups at the CEGB for the delays , is due to make a full statement next week .
19 Gargrave is the home of Johnson & Johnson of babies ' bottoms fame and is also a good stopping point for a traveller on the Pennine Way , for there is a wonderful cafe here known to generations of walkers and cyclists at the very spot where the Way crosses the busy turnpike .
20 It is this group who will be the senior teachers , heads and inspectors at the beginning of the second millennium , and it will be they who will therefore have the opportunity , if they choose to take it , to play a crucial role in educational reform .
21 He was another character er there was er I remember they used to have a lot of socials and things at the church you know , it was very well attended I suppose in those days .
22 To a large extent , this implicit phonology is determined by choices of words and structures at the syntactic level , where it can be regarded as an important ingredient of stylistic value ( see 7.6 ) .
23 Note the effect of the pizzicato chord for 1st violins and cellos at the beginning , and that the directions ‘ arco , unis. ’ , have not been omitted from the 1st violin part on its re-entrance .
24 The pro-democracy rallies and protests at the rigged elections have led to government disappointment with the behaviour of the students .
25 There were dogs of all shapes and sizes at the kennels — but , luckily , no Wolfhounds or Old English Sheepdogs .
26 The owners of 8 and 10 Millbank are seeking planning permission for two ground floor bedroom extensions and dorma bedrooms and bathrooms at the rear of their homes .
27 The cash is needed for books and pens at the 180-pupil St Vincent 's school at Altrincham , Greater Manchester .
28 I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause .
29 During most , but not all , of the years of high levels of antislavery publication a significant proportion of titles ( 50 per cent in some years ) were published in provincial towns or in the provinces and London at the same time .
30 Athelstan is known to have endowed the church with lands following his success against the Scots and Danes at the battle of Brunanburg consequent upon his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John .
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