Example sentences of "at [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 2 | At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation . |
| 3 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 4 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 5 | In most individuals , the basi-occipital begins to fuse with the basisphenoid at about the seventeenth year , and they are usually completely joined by the twentieth to twenty-third year . |
| 6 | At about the seventeenth day the first butterflies will probably start to emerge . |
| 7 | The other half ‘ with thee I am well pleased ’ comes from that picture of the Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah 42:1 which we looked at in the last chapter . |
| 8 | Irrespective of which view a person takes concerning Purgatory , whether it is found in this life before death or is arrived at in the next life after death there is agreement as to the purpose of Purgatory namely that it is a place where cleansing from sin takes place . |
| 9 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 10 | A meeting of university presidents was taking place in Beijing , prompted by student unrest in June ( which will be looked at in the next chapter ) , and they were considering the effects that ‘ Heshang ’ might have . |
| 11 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 12 | This evidence , which will be looked at in the next section , is an indication that a direct link between allergy and mental problems is not impossible . |
| 13 | erm it 's difficult to say , but erm again that 's something they 're looking at over the next couple of weeks , but perhaps along last year 's lines — they should n't really be any higher than last year . |
| 14 | As the fuel prices come down they should n't have to surcharge , but again that 's something they 'll be looking at over the next couple of weeks . |
| 15 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 16 | The neck joins the body at around the 16th fret , making access to those all important top frets rather awkward , to say the least . |
| 17 | These darken at around the 14th week of pregnancy and get more prominent . |