Example sentences of "and at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told it well , with a wealth of detail , for he had been there , and was proud ; and at every word of praise for his Northumbrian lords he rubbed salt into sore and festering wounds . |
| 2 | You must know your soil intimately in every corner of every field and at every stage of its structure through the seasons . |
| 3 | Ward was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1974 for the murder of 12 people , including nine soldiers , killed in an IRA bombing of a coach eight months earlier [ see p. 26458 ] , and she was also given concurrent 30-year prison terms for involvement in explosions at Euston Station in London and at a Ministry of Defence college [ see pp. 26873-74 ] . |
| 4 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 5 | Thus over time , and at a variety of scales , cultures were mixed and accommodations were reached ( often between groups with unequal power ) , producing hybrid forms . |
| 6 | The example here is for a self-employed professional who charges for time spent on a number of projects and at a variety of rates . |
| 7 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 8 | In Adrienne Bennett 's classroom pupils work on mathematical activities which enable them to respond in a variety of ways and at a range of levels . |
| 9 | As a point of reference it will be assumed that for a supernova collapse the gravitational waves carry off a total energy of in a burst of milliseconds length and at a frequency of about I kHz . |
| 10 | A silent handshake across the joined lines , over 1.5 kilometres from base and at a depth of 30 metres , concluded over a decade of searching . |
| 11 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 12 | The Board met to choose his successor and Dr. George Harvey Goldsmith was appointed at the age of thirty-two , and at a salary of £80 per annum . |
| 13 | For five years — and at a cost of at least £150,000 — the council has tried unsuccessfully to reach agreement with Mervyn Sweet , of Chapel Farm , to protect the meadows . |
| 14 | * The Ministry of Agriculture will restructure its regional offices , cutting running costs by £2m a year , and at a cost of 200 jobs . |
| 15 | Career break and beyond is now available free to all members , and at a cost of £3.50 to non-members . |
| 16 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 17 | It was not until January that EMI at last rid themselves of the Sex Pistols — ‘ in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last two months ’ , as an official statement put it — and at a cost of £50,000 in settlement . |
| 18 | The question being investigated was the appearance of a loved one who is far away and at a moment of unexpected crisis , or dying . |
| 19 | Throughout the southern and western parts of India the live snake itself is also the object of veneration , and at a multitude of Cobra shrines and in temples it is fed on milk , sweetmeats , sugar , etc. , nurtured and worshipped as being the bodily vehicle of that higher cosmic power or spirit which is to be approached with reverence and honoured . |
| 20 | Pancreatitis was induced by caerulein that was diluted in saline and infused sc for five hours in conscious animals at a dose of 10 µg/kg/h and at a rate of 1 ml/h . |
| 21 | He had come to national and international notice in June when , in interviews first with the United States and then with the Soviet press , and at a conference of the CPSU 's radical reformist Democratic Platform faction , he had alleged that , in collusion with the CPSU , the KGB was continuing illegal covert operations against Soviet citizens . |
| 22 | For this reason , and at a time of less genial moods , the Report was to come under severe criticism . |
| 23 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |
| 24 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 25 | And at a time of great economic uncertainty , this goal assumes increased importance , especially in an ageing population . |
| 26 | Such sites suit their conventional styles of building and marketing , and at a time of low demand would improve their cash-flow by capitalising on their extensive land holdings of farm land on the fringe . |
| 27 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 28 | The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history and at a time of difficulty for the institutions of higher education throughout the country , Edinburgh is in a process of constantly reappraising and improving standards to meet the growing demands of a changing world . |
| 29 | The dispute took place after the English victory at Agincourt and at a time of growing alliance between Henry V and the Emperor Sigismund against the French , and there is little doubt that the principal French spokesman on the subject , Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , was largely concerned with cutting the enemy down to size . |
| 30 | The Company suffered from the industrial depression of 1931 and at a meeting of the directors in May , the following proposals were considered : — |