Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following resolution , passed by the Aberdeen Congress in 1950 , is an example of repeated calls for change at other Congresses : That the members of the BDDA assembled in Congress at Aberdeen in August 1950 , while appreciating the genuine desire and efforts of the teaching profession to furnish deaf children with a satisfactory education by means of the Pure Oral Method , are nevertheless gravely perturbed at the general low standard of achievement under a system which ignores completely the value of manual means of communication . |
| 2 | Local councils , housing associations , and self-help groups should be enabled to buy suitable land for building at existing use value . |
| 3 | Saturday 's expected points spree for West at relegated Liverpool St Helens never materialised as they signed off their highly successful season with a 32–0 win . |
| 4 | The school was chosen for inspection at random . |
| 5 | They will also be available for inspection at public libraries . |
| 6 | Conflict about assessment at Key Stage 4 and about equivalence with GCSE ultimately led to the giving up of proposals for double testing . |
| 7 | The availability of on-line facilities and displays allows the inspection of results as a simulation proceeds through time and gives the operator the opportunity to make decisions about progress at regular intervals . |
| 8 | Anyone standing for election at local government level has to have an election agent . |
| 9 | A recent publication from the Schools Examination and Assessment Council on advice for assessment at Key Stage 3 in mathematics and science holds useful information for the forward thinking history teacher . |
| 10 | Sharp swings in business activity , changing corporate cash requirements and the perceived need for industry at large to focus its operations , are all likely to produce opportunities for divestment and hence for the application of venture capital . |
| 11 | Proposals might be made for action at European Community level which do not fall within the Community 's exclusive competence and which certain Member States regard as undesirable or unnecessary . |
| 12 | Wherever management of affairs is delegated sufficient reports should regularly be prepared for submission at full partners ' meetings . |
| 13 | He may perhaps be identifiable with the ‘ Brown ’ who deputized as organist at New College on two occasions during 1493 ; otherwise his identity remains resolutely obscure . |
| 14 | They also knew that he was a violent man , a man prepared not only to handle shotguns , but to saw off the barrel and to shoot sawn off shotgun at human beings . |
| 15 | ( The latter association , along with the other two major local authority associations — the Association of Metropolitan Associations and the Association of County Councils — and professional bodies such as SOLACE ( Society of Local Authority Chief Executives ) also provide opportunities for liaison at national level . ) |
| 16 | On almost any evening in central and southern Malaysia barn owls congregate after hunting at favoured spots , and do not disperse again until after dawn . |
| 17 | Minimal-competency testing — as mentioned earlier , some 38 states have now introduced laws which require that students should be able to demonstrate that they possess certain basic skills after attendance at public school . |
| 18 | On reaching the Customs post and the point of confiscation , the women flung packet after packet at red-faced customs men , while alerted press and other media looked on gleefully . |
| 19 | One is for Flowers for the Altar , one for St. Anthony which is given to the poor who come looking for help at various times of the day and night , and the third is for Sending a Sick Child to Lourdes , the cost of which is approximately £350 . |
| 20 | Since FIFA accepted South Africa back on to the international stage their top players have become available for transfer at cheap prices . |
| 21 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 22 | The questionnaire administered to parents included specific questions about work at nuclear establishments and monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation . |
| 23 | In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College . |
| 24 | Some residents use more than one type of support at different times , depending on how they are feeling . |
| 25 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 26 | Winds of Change at AMERICAN EXPRESS |
| 27 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 28 | The importance of story at Key Stage 1 and 2 is highlighted by this approach . |
| 29 | With pressure from the market , the consultants and the manufacturers all weakened , then , any change in BEA policy would have to come from a change of heart at central headquarters . |
| 30 | Then a last few weeks of freedom at High Brook . |