Example sentences of "at [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began showing up at whatever hotel he was working at during the day , claiming to have been just passing . |
| 2 | Your Big Mac index , and William Burke 's letter in the same issue about the yen-dollar exchange rate , brought to mind an explanation , which may be apocryphal , of how the exchange rate of ¥360 to $1 was arrived at during the occupation of Japan . |
| 3 | At Worth the supervisor was the sole full-timer . |
| 4 | The optimal pairing of β and is found at for the KW record and at for the FCL record . |
| 5 | In hollow-casting by the direct lost wax method , a core is modelled in clay on a metal armature , the surface finished in wax to the thickness aimed at for the bronze . |
| 6 | This rule has now been relaxed so as to permit reports of commissioners , including law commissioners , and white papers to be looked at for the purpose solely of ascertaining the mischief which the statute is intended to cure but not for the purpose of discovering the meaning of the words used by Parliament to effect such cure : Eastman Photographic Materials Co . Ltd. v. Comptroller-General of Patents , Designs and Trademarks [ 1898 ] A.C. 571 and Assam Railways and Trading Co . Ltd. v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue [ 1935 ] A.C. 445 , 457–458 . |
| 7 | The optimal pairing of β and is found at for the KW record and at for the FCL record . |
| 8 | ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football . |
| 9 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 10 | That 's probably all we would want to look at for the time being . |
| 11 | And to a very large degree , that has been erm , achieved , and I think that erm , the prospects for the county council for ninety-four five are now much better than they appeared to be a year ago , and er , I think the prospects for ninety-five six will need to be looked at through the budget review sub-committee and this committee at an early stage , and I 'm sure that the workman-like way in which it 's addressed it 's business is a good sign for the future . |
| 12 | My study is the perfect place for an author , especially if he does n't , as I do n't , object to being occasionally peered at through the windows by curious visitors . |
| 13 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a cottage or small farmhouse , ‘ Intended for a Gentleman in the New Forest … as an object to be seen from his Mansion ’ ( Fig. 25 ) , has a much less extensive landscape than that of Blaise Castle in mind , but it is typical of many at about the turn of the century . |
| 14 | The sport is not new to Teesside where the game was known to have been played at about the turn of the century on six lawns at Albert Park , Middlesbrough until it was pushed out by tennis . |
| 15 | Throughout the text he puts considerable effort into emphasising that any conclusions we may arrive at about the Universe and the objects within it are only scientific theories . |
| 16 | One answer to this problem is tailored testing in which questions are computer-based and the test is adaptive in focussing the range of presented questions at about the level of success/failure which is appropriate for each testee . |
| 17 | Reading across from £789 , we find B would value this at about the equivalent of £410 , whilst the alternative certainty equivalent under contract 1 is £400 , as we saw previously ( because the owner gets £0 or £1000 under contract 1 ) . |
| 18 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 19 | At about the year 1550 the pyramidal base of the funnel suddenly narrows and from that time proceeds in a straight and narrow path to the present day . |
| 20 | To call it the " Cenomanian transgression " is something of an oversimplification , for it is often Albian or Turonian in age , but a major transgression at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times seems to have occurred almost all over the world . |
| 21 | Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time . |
| 22 | With ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opening at about the rate of ten a year and Peter Revers ' avowed aim to have one in every state , the new factory was crucial . |
| 23 | Such a college would admit students at about the age of sixteen , but there are risks attendant upon such a scheme and only ‘ a limited number of experiments ’ would be approved . |
| 24 | At about the age of seven , for no apparent reason , Solowka began to dislike the classes . |
| 25 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 26 | When William left school at about the age of twelve , he hoped to become a gardener but his skin became inflamed with constant outdoor work . |
| 27 | Richard , a man in his late thirties , spoke of an argument he had with his mother at about the age of sixteen . |
| 28 | We also know that at about the age of 13 a very high proportion of boys are attracted to science and scientific careers . |
| 29 | At about the age of most of our participants the moral career of a child with its childish criteria of worth comes to an end . |
| 30 | The Oedipus complex coincides with the phallic phase , which occurs at about the age of three , in which both boys and girls are interested in the penis . |