Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | you can worry about that at the early end of the week |
2 | This can not , of course , apply to outcrop rock such as that at the old village of Tockmal on the Oa , which has a group of shallow cups . |
3 | Ossie O'Brien held the seat for Labour at the 1983 by-election but sat for only three months . |
4 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
5 | Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated . |
6 | I 'm not sure that a radial-arm saw is accurate enough for this at the best of times , but , at the moment , mine rattles up and down its rails like a train in the sidings , and is definitely not fit for the job . |
7 | It should be sent ( or preferably taken ) as soon as possible , together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) which you will have been given by the Registrar of Births and Deaths , to the local Social Security Office , and as in most cases there is an entitlement to a National Insurance death grant , application can be made for this at the same time . |
8 | County Council 's encouraged by the fact that the introduction Policy E two is supported by all the North Yorkshire Districts and they are after all at the sharp end of implementing structure policy . |
9 | The 22-year-old left-hander batted for nearly three hours for 69 to help the leaders to 266 for six at the close — still 29 short of avoiding the follow-on . |
10 | LIMA — Peru is to propose the expulsion of Panama from the so-called group of Eight at the third summit of Latin American presidents beginning today because of the refusal of its military dictator , General Antonio Noriega , to institute democracy , writes Simon Strong . |
11 | One barometer of health — LTOM 's volume of contracts traded compared with the volume of underlying stocks — is less than half of that at the European Options Exchange in Amsterdam or the Chicago Board Options Exchange . |
12 | Levels of enquiries are beginning to show some early signs of improvement , but any benefit from this will not begin to flow through until the second quarter of 1993 at the earliest . |
13 | The tour in question is expected to begin in the summer of 1993 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , and then travel to Tokyo and Paris , if the Orphans Court of Montgomery County , Pennsylvania , allows the Barnes Foundation to override the indenture to benefactor Albert C. Barnes 's will that prohibits the loan of any works from the eccentric millionaire 's collection . |
14 | The BG-BASE reference manual is no substitute for a users ’ guide to our particular application , and it is essential that such a guide be written by the end of 1993 at the latest . |
15 | By half past six at the latest he reached the place where he died . |
16 | Under Ulster 's prison laws Christie will not now be released until the end of 1995 at the earliest . |
17 | THREE Ulster boxers have been named to represent Ireland in a team of six at the European Junior boxing championships in Greece starting on September 25 . |
18 | Mr McKay had a majority of 14,191 at the 1987 election . |
19 | An agreement was obtained to run a small dedicated number of these at the higher speed . |
20 | Jerry Rawlings , chair of the PNDC , said that if the assembly completed its work on schedule a referendum on the constitution would be held in January or February 1992 and , if it won support , parliamentary elections would be held " by the last quarter of 1992 at the latest " . |
21 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
22 | What was the point of voting Conservative in a constituency such as Blaenau Gwent , for example , where the Labour candidate had a majority in excess of 20,000 at the previous election ? |
23 | De-luxe car 66 of 1911 at the new Bispham Station , built in 1932 replacing the old Company building . |
24 | How many of those at the lower end of this scale could be described as ‘ poor ’ ? |
25 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
26 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
27 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
28 | THE spectacularly ambitious plan by the Welsh Rugby Union to raise funds with a massed male-voice choir of 10,000 at the National Stadium in Cardiff next month is well under way . |
29 | Arguing in a similar way , there could have been seven at the second party , leaving one-forty second of a cake unaccounted for , and hence an attendance of 42 at the last party . |
30 | For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom . |