Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun sg] 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 | Some specialise in eating timber , boring away inside posts and logs until they become hollow shells that collapse at the touch of a finger . |
| 3 | Singer tom is still all southern manners and embarrassment at the lads wanking around . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They seem to drift about in the middle and good grey columns or rudeness at the other end of the market . |
| 6 | If it did not spring out of contract it must , I apprehend , have arisen ( if at all ) from the relative situation and circumstances of the defendants and plaintiff at the time of the occurrence of the act of negligence . |
| 7 | The argument that governments ( foolishly and shortsightedly ) attempt to win electoral support through the creation of mini-booms and full-employment at the cost of inflation just before an election approaches does accord with the common-sense of the fifties and sixties but the evidence is by no means entirely supportive of this perspective . |
| 8 | If the grounds of referral are accepted by both parents and child at the Hearing , the Panel looks at all the information that has been provided for them . |
| 9 | So it was that , just before my fourteenth birthday , I found myself with my parents and brother at the foot of an unprepossessing mountain called locally El Jocoso , the Jocund . |
| 10 | The concentrations of ClO remained extremely low during these periods because air at the temperature minimum was in darkness at the model output time ( 00:00 ) . |
| 11 | Similarly , unemployed people who can show they have used their time constructively , in study or voluntary work for example , will be able to match themselves to jobs demanding the qualities this demonstrates — initiative , hard work , flexibility , reliability , etc. — and possibly pick up some useful skills and experience at the same time . |
| 12 | Numerous stories began to circulate of American machinations and claim-jumping at the expense of the British . |
| 13 | The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the University of El Salvador argues that , |
| 14 | Massive structures remained , many attitudes and management at the beginning of the decade were very similar to those of long ago . |
| 15 | PRIZES will be awarded for the best carnations and bonsai at the Royal Horticultural Society 's show in Greycoat Street , London SW1 , to be held this Tuesday ( 11am-7pm , admission £2.50 ) and Wednesday ( 10am-5pm , admission £1.50 ) . |
| 16 | It is irrelevant that the partners are foreign nationals and resident at the time of service outside the jurisdiction . |
| 17 | Last night just days after management at the Darlington Arts Centre said there would be no space in the autumn programme for the festival Darlington Council 's recreation committee chairman , Labour councillor Dot Long , said the town 's Campaign for Real Ale could count on the venue . |
| 18 | The forty-five year-old , Yale-trained art historian has a strong record in the field , having spent eight years as curator at The Art Institute of Chicago where he co-organised ‘ A Day in the Country : Impressionism and the French Landscape ’ and ‘ The Art of Paul Gauguin ’ . |
| 19 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 20 | Liability for negligence may also be excluded by a provision imposing a duty on the other party to insure against a particular type of loss ( James Archdale & Co v Comservices [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 459 ) and such a clause might be used in a contract to install goods or machinery at the employer 's premises , requiring the employer , rather than the contractor , to insure the premises against damage caused by fire . |
| 21 | SOUTH African rugby team officials denied claims yesterday that anti-apartheid protesters hit Springbok players with eggs and flour at the start of their tour of England . |
| 22 | Speaking to Ann Davies of the Church of Scotland Press Office , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , formerly Minister of Home Affairs and Environment at the Scottish Office , said he was very glad that eight men form Saughton Prison were assisting the C.A. campaign . |
| 23 | True , there would be argument about how or whether Iraq was to be made to conform with clauses in the 11 other relevant Security Council resolutions and horror at the thought of the Iraqi regime surviving with its army and air force still largely undestroyed . |
| 24 | The exhibition 's organiser is John Elderfield , Director of the Department of Drawings and Curator of the Department of Paintings and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 25 | Drivers may normally have no memory at all for actions performed at the operational level , moreover , there is a suggestion that in some circumstances memory for actions and information at the tactical level may also be almost entirely absent . |
| 26 | You will need to choose trees that flower at the same time . |
| 27 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 28 | Storms and flooding at the end of August were reported to have killed more than 150 people and made thousands homeless in southern Bangladesh . |
| 29 | Mr Milne was speaking after some 800 Breton fishermen smashed stalls and equipment at the Rungis market , emptied trucks of imports , crushed shellfish underfoot , pelted riot police with frozen fish and left hundreds of tons of seafood strewn on the ground . |
| 30 | After the church service there will be a splendid reception for 200 showbiz pals and family at the Sherwood Country Club . |