Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] at the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm . |
| 2 | The comparison can be made visually in Figure 1.2 , which allocates equal space on the page to each constituency , Figure 1.2A for unemployment , and in Figure 1.2B for the 1987 election result at the same time . |
| 3 | ‘ Concurrent validity ’ ( C3 ) is the agreement between the test scores and some criterion measure at the same point in time , while ‘ predictive validity ’ ( P ) refers to the agreement between test scores and some criterion measure obtained sometime later . |
| 4 | I turned , grabbed my dressing gown and made for the door ; with one mighty ninja kick , the side of my right foot connected with all three switches of the fan heater at the same time and it hummed into life . |
| 5 | The founder of the choir , Donald Carter , has announced a further practice session at the same venue on Tuesday , starting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 6 | To emphasise fully the drama of this grand space , rather than remove the raised hay-loft occupying the south end of the building , it was decided to retain this area as a dining gallery overlooking the living room , with a private sitting room at the same level lying behind a new partition . |
| 7 | She came second in a women 's international free-for-all at the 1933 Chicago races , at 189mph , but while leading in the Phillips Trophy race at the same meeting lost fabric off a wing and was killed in the subsequent crash . |
| 8 | The rent was one shilling and tenpence for each dwelling — I remember the amount because Miss Young went to the Church Vestry to pay for both herself and her neighbour each Saturday morning at the same time that I was collecting the pensions for the Almshouse Ladies . |
| 9 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 10 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 11 | At the heart of this is the introduction of an Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) system which not only allows fast , cheap transfer of data along lines that are free of interference but also voice and data transmission at the same time rather than using two separate lines . |
| 12 | It is therefore advisable that those documents referred to in an accounting context at the same time be considered as audit evidence , and the audit objectives achieved thereby noted clearly on the file . |
| 13 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 14 | If you do not participate in regular exercise , then you should begin some sort of exercise programme at the same time as you begin your diet . |
| 15 | There is evidence particularly on the political right of a view that ‘ multiple citizenship ’ is somehow inconsistent with British citizenship , whereas what is needed is a way of combining a sense of belonging to the British , English , Welsh , Scottish or ( more problematic still ) the Northern Ireland community at the same time as feeling a sense of community with other groups . |
| 16 | BRIGHTEN UP YOUR GARDEN WITH EXTERNAL LIGHTS AND IMPROVE HOME SECURITY AT THE SAME TIME |
| 17 | In the early days slalomists paddled a World Championships in slalom and then the same paddlers , using the same boats , took part in a WWR to make it more of an event , just as a K1 sprint paddler might take part in a 500m race and also take part in a 10km event at the same regatta . |
| 18 | ANNE GIBSON is the sole Scottish flag bearer at the All England Championships which begin at Wembley today . |
| 19 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 20 | He was successively appointed house surgeon , registrar , and resident surgical officer at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London , from 1922 till 1927 ( he gained his FRCS in 1922 ) and was made consultant surgeon at the same hospital in 1928 . |
| 21 | ‘ With an improvement of almost $142m at the pre-tax level , we have achieved a significant recovery in our operating performance at the half year . |
| 22 | HarperCollins is giving him a big push , and is reissuing Climbers and The Ice Monkey at the same time as this haunting tale . |
| 23 | Trust you to lower the tone of the whole conversation and introduce a note of clitoris envy at the same time . ’ |
| 24 | Shearer was on the operating table at the same time as fit-again Gascoigne and his other international colleagues were preparing for tomorrow 's World Cup qualifier against San Marino . |
| 25 | The second question is the second certainly made by the Noble Earl was that the Department of Transport were urgently examining the situation , I trust with the Home Office at the same time and I would suggest that we might in fact discuss this matter if I might make er if I might make this suggestion to the Noble Earl , between now and the report stage , so that this matter can be clarified but I am sure that he will understand that we would not in fact be er feel able to erm ignore this issue er in the period between the beginning of the committee stage today and the third reading of this Bill , we do expect Government amendments to be introduced . |
| 26 | McKeever and Huling ( 1970a ) tried to get over this problem by presenting a digit at fixation point at the same time as a stimulus appeared in one or other visual field . |
| 27 | One friend has described him checking his wristwatch with an almost deliberate thoroughness : " He slowly and methodically raised his left hand and with his right hand carefully pushed back his coat sleeve and shirt sleeve at the same time and then painstakingly , at close range , studied the face of the dial . |
| 28 | You say there 's three candidates there who get , one who is actually earning the money that we pay and two that are n't , the quick fix is to say right we given you an opportunity to do this national accounts job at the same salary for six months , see if you can do it , and if you do it we confirm the salary . |
| 29 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 30 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |