Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 2 | In 1985 , capital expenditure for air pollution control was estimated to have cost industry $10.5 billion , with operation and maintenance costs at about the same level . |
| 3 | It is the risk to public order inherent in the defendant 's words or conduct that represents the harm struck at by the section . |
| 4 | It results in very rapid weight loss in most cases and generally the weight stabilises at around the ‘ ideal ’ level . |
| 5 | In The Dear Deceit ( 1960 ) the dichotomy between truth and fiction hinted at in The Sycamore Tree is brought to the fore , and the possibility of reaching a pre-discursive reality is relinquished once and for all . |
| 6 | In hollow-casting by the direct lost wax method , a core is modelled in clay on a metal armature , the surface finished in wax to the thickness aimed at for the bronze . |
| 7 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 8 | The Northern Ireland case illustrates a critical point hinted at at the beginning of this section which has important methodological implications for any researcher working with ethnicity as a speaker variable : ethnicity is a culturally created category , in no sense objectively ‘ given ’ or verifiable . |
| 9 | Four Greenpeace volunteers attempting to take samples for radioactivity testing at in the French nuclear testing ground of Muroroa atoll were arrested by French commandos on Dec. 11 . |
| 10 | Compare this to the strenuously managed , balanced sense of self arrived at by the likes of The Eurythmics and Howard Jones . |
| 11 | The significance of this fact will be dealt with later ; suffice it to say here that the effect of the listing arrived at by the formulators of the received tradition is to raise this perfectly acceptable and important generalization to the status of an unbroken rule , to smooth away all complications and to present a perfectly articulated chain of Muftis , all of whom remained in office until their deaths . |
| 12 | Non-sexism can only be a utopian or post-revolutionary state arrived at after the massive change in social relations and ideas demanded by an aggressive anti-sexist policy . |
| 13 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 14 | In all In in all fairness they 're not in my opinion , not exactly the greatest thing to look at in the country are they ? |
| 15 | Thus , the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) stated in 1985 that ‘ the best assumption for planning purposes is for a continuing high level of unemployment throughout the period ( 1985–89 ) and for a level of long-term unemployment remaining at around the one million mark . ’ |
| 16 | A report published at about the same time as this scheme was being inaugurated suggests , however , that BES competition for limited funds may damage housing associations by raising the cost of borrowing . |
| 17 | A single voice , if it comes from somebody sufficiently powerful , can overturn the consensus arrived at by the rest ( Sedgwick wryly ends his article by saying that the child 's name was put on the ‘ register ’ , the doctor having used his influence to overturn the decision made by the rest ) . |
| 18 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 19 | The conduct struck at by the section may cause misery without being aimed at any particular victim . |
| 20 | Ideally , we should try to get our document circulated at around the same time to gain maximum interest . |
| 21 | In ‘ Self-Confrontation and the Writer ’ she describes her life as a series of ‘ splits ’ , and the allegorical mapping of language to identity hinted at in The Languages of Love is elaborated : |