Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [n mass] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will also be a scheme of voluntary severance for staff at the company 's London head office . |
| 2 | These studies were to be carried out collaboratively between regional and district officers , and to be completed within six months , to minimize the uncertainty for staff at the two hospitals . |
| 3 | Dozens of birds have been killed by what 's believed to be an outbreak of botulism.Experts at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust have been carrying out post mortems to confirm the cause of the deaths.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | He is Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and sometime Professor of Statistics at the LSE . |
| 5 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 6 | The neck itself is made from Canadian maple and feels fairly slim for a five — 45mm across the nut , with a depth of just 23mm and a width of 60mm at the twelfth fret . |
| 7 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 8 | MOSELEY are having to take drastic steps to improve their finances as they face a deficit of £110,000 at The Reddings , but the job of Alex Keay , their salaried coach , is not in danger . |
| 9 | Without the support of people at the top , no one is likely to confront organisational defensive routines . |
| 10 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 11 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 12 | Not only were other Sussex towns strongly characterised by the number of £2 assessments , usually on goods , but Bury St Edmunds and Newbury , also county centres , had a smaller proportion of people at the bottom of the heap than their immediate neighbourhoods , though at the latter , the suburban hamlet of Speenhamland was crowded with poor . |
| 13 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 14 | He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . |
| 15 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 16 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm one of the team of people at the Foreign Office that will be constantly working on Michael 's case . |
| 18 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 19 | You know , that there was a group of people at the top , Ministers , perhaps , who had an interest in keeping relations between Copts and Moslems on the boil . |
| 20 | For good measure , up popped Mr Peter Stibbard , Director of Statistics at the Department of Employment . |
| 21 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 22 | From 1321 to 1325 he was also in charge of works at the royal castle there . |
| 23 | The pleas were entered at an earlier court which heard the charges arose out of the removal and subsequent sale of gents clothing from the store as well as what was described as the ‘ creaming off ’ of cash from sales at the counter . |
| 24 | ‘ Scotty ’ Gilmour , who formerly worked for Tony Jacklin , duly performed the aiming function , and a birdie from 15ft at the seventeenth partially repaired the damage . |
| 25 | The effect on the Reed price was electric , moving as it did from 485p on the day prior to the announcement to 531p at the close of trading on the day of the announcement and to 641p at year end . |
| 26 | With the origin at the centre of the Earth θ runs from 0° at the North Pole to 180° at the South Pole , and is related to the latitude . |
| 27 | ( With the origin at the centre of the Earth θ would run from 0° at the North Pole to 180° at the South Pole , while φ ( the longitude ) runs from -180° to + 180° . ) |
| 28 | He is the co-chairman of the museum council of the International Fund for Culture and has written extensively , as well as having had thirty years of work experience with staff at the institute . |
| 29 | It is equally relevant when providing a nursing service for people at the other end of the lifespan — the elderly . |
| 30 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |