Example sentences of "at [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overseas Groups would publicise their plans for future visitors as at present at the annual meeting in January or February of each year and perhaps circulate how those plans are developing midway through the year for peoples information . |
| 2 | The normal entry links the highest key at present on the prime data track with the address of the track . |
| 3 | And Doherty , the best Irish player at present on the professional circuit , did n't let his fans down with a comfortable 5–2 win over an out of touch Neal Foulds of England . |
| 4 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 5 | It is not therefore possible at present for the public finance economist to appeal to a generally accepted body of theory . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the national rivalries between the industrial countries — in the recent past between the Soviet Union and the US , and at present between the three centres of economic power represented by Japan , the European Community and the US — are potentially more dangerous to the wellbeing , or even the survival , of humanity . |
| 7 | If we look at what is located at present under the general heading of ‘ literature ’ we find an extraordinary variety of texts , with only very tenuous family resemblances between them . |
| 8 | Matters such as the hon. Gentleman raised can be dealt with at present under the social dimension to which the British Government subscribe and against which the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) voted . |
| 9 | The rest of their opponents are at present in the lower half of the table . |
| 10 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |
| 11 | Using the Kingshams evidence and other observations , Leach has postulated an early street grid within the later defences , making Ilchester unique at present among the small towns . |
| 12 | Some , indeed , were criticised for aspects of their habitability , such as mothers ' inability to watch , from the kitchen , children at play on the open space located at the front of the houses . |
| 13 | It was perfectly understood that no outer differences between us , however great , had the slightest bearing on this shared moment of enchantment together , at play in the sunlit waters . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 15 | But I was at university in the early '60s , and I could see that even my sister 's generation , 10 years later , was much bolder about this eternal exhausting , juggling compromise of home and work . ’ |
| 16 | The Ecclesiastical History places the baptism of Eadwine in York at Easter in the twelfth year of his reign , which Bede , who dated Eadwine 's accession to 616 , considered to be 627 ( HE 11 , 14 ) , but if Eadwine 's accession were not in 616 but in 617 this date would need to be corrected to 628 . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you say , ’ Athelstan asked , trying to hide his distaste at the-glee in the young man 's face , ‘ that each hangman arranges the knot in his own way ? ’ |
| 18 | Yes , I was born in Lane at Lane on the eleventh November , nineteen seventeen . |
| 19 | ‘ A few days before he joined his army , King James was at prayer in the royal chapel at Linlithgow . |
| 20 | Many in the music business sneer at coverage in the regional press but Gedge has always encouraged it , especially in the Middleton paper where articles take on the role of a public letter home . |
| 21 | Magritte has performed extremely well at auction over the last few years , according to Melanie Clore of Sotheby 's Impressionist Pictures Department . |
| 22 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 23 | Statistical Method : The 1975 base figure for each of the ten artists in the index is the average price of the central 80% of paintings by that artist sold at auction during the 1973/74 , 1974/75 and 1975/76 auction seasons , as reported in Art Sales Index published by Richard Hislop . |
| 24 | The jewel was sold at auction for the then amazing sum of £1.3 million in 1987 . |
| 25 | FERRARI-driving Viscount Portman , of Hereford , paid £1,000 at auction for the rear spoiler off Formula One champ Nigel Mansell 's car . |
| 26 | Of the ten copies sold at auction in the last eighty years , only one has been perfect . |
| 27 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 28 | This picture of A1 2558 ‘ Tracery ’ passing Staveley South at speed on the 10.00 Marylebone-Manchester was the very first such working after this type was transferred to the GC in 1930 . |
| 29 | I took off at speed with the flimsy boards flexing and bouncing at each stride . |
| 30 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |