Example sentences of "at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | a statement automatically produced by the breath analysis machine by which the proportion of alcohol in the breath specimen was measured and certificate signed by a constable that the statement relates to a specimen provided by the accused at the date and time shown in the statement , and |
| 32 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 33 | ‘ We are surprised at the decision and we fear the effect it could have on the battle against doping . |
| 34 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 35 | I looked at the wife and she died of fright . |
| 36 | The Palestinians eventually boycotted the meeting in protest at the US and Russian decision to abide by the so-called " Madrid formula " which stipulated that the Palestinian delegation would include no PLO members , no East Jerusalem Palestinians and no Palestinians from the diaspora outside the occupied territories . |
| 37 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 38 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 39 | This is essential if the scientific quality of studies of biodiversity at the ecosystem and genetic level is not to be compromised . |
| 40 | She felt there would be too many families at the seaside and not enough single men . |
| 41 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 42 | In succeeding years of wartime the annual conference continued to take place , though not at the seaside and not usually for a full week . |
| 43 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 44 | Then followed a mad rush out to the instruments , a frantic look at the sky and the visibility , a quick scribbling on a pad to write out the message , and a scramble into the teleprinter room to tap it out . |
| 45 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 46 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 47 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 48 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 49 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 50 | The mountain peaks and ridges clawed at the sky and Maggie stopped thinking altogether . |
| 51 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 52 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 53 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |
| 54 | He looked up at the sky and the sun blinded him , he looked at the river and the reflections of his disfigurement hurt him . |
| 55 | A huddle of passengers gathered round the steps of the carriage to get a look at the reading and , lest their breathing distort the figure , Nadia held it aloft like a fish between finger and thumb . |
| 56 | Voltages at the row and column intersections channel electrons through the holes to create a dot on the screen . |
| 57 | Children would not be a natural product of such a union , so that objections directed at the welfare and support of a family would not apply . |
| 58 | We have calculated the p value for each patient ( 28 ) admitted in the next period of the study using the grade of encephalopathy , the absolute value of prothrombin time at the admission and the number of blood units transfused within the 72 hours after admission . |
| 59 | So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time ! |
| 60 | The three figures were now almost at the road and out in the open when Taff opened fire with a long burst . |