Example sentences of "of [n mass] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Every other member of staff at the now-closed villa was interviewed but all denied any knowledge of ‘ inappropriate actions ’ . |
| 3 | This policy issue must be cleared before the basic personnel decisions about selection and training of staff at the various levels can be made and before the information presentations can be designed . |
| 4 | ‘ I know several members of staff at the Versorelli Institute quite well . |
| 5 | Because industrial growth has been so fast there is virtually full employment , with a particular shortage of staff at the clerical/secretarial level , since the new generation of university-educated Singaporeans is aiming for the higher paid jobs . |
| 6 | The charges arose from a 1983 investigation of alleged sexual abuse by Buckey , his mother Peggy McMartin Buckey , and several members of staff at the family-owned McMartin kindergarten in Los Angeles . |
| 7 | Jean-Louis Bianco was previously chief of staff at the presidential office . |
| 8 | On the staff side we have recruited nine individuals , er , but since we 've lost three members of staff at the same time , that is a net increase of six , and since most of them are part-time , there 's actually only three full-time equivalents , we 've been able to do that entirely within the we had on establishments at work . |
| 9 | A member of staff at the Royal United Hospital said staff were reduced to tears by the tragedy . |
| 10 | Lyricist Tim Rice , one of the forces behind worldwide musical smashes Chess , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , summed up : ‘ You ca n't fool hundreds of thousands , or millions of people at the same time with absolute garbage for record after record . |
| 11 | The arrival of large groups of people at the same time will always mean pressure on the reception staff , hall porters and other departments . |
| 12 | And th and then we have Mr Lilley saying that there were lots of people at the Tory Party Conference , remember , he had his little list that he was going to go through and and erm chop out all the , the social security scroungers and people who abused the system . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm one of the team of people at the Foreign Office that will be constantly working on Michael 's case . |
| 14 | From 1321 to 1325 he was also in charge of works at the royal castle there . |
| 15 | 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 . |