Example sentences of "at [noun sg] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EEC commission , in backing the expenditure of some £50 million on Super- SARA , said that ‘ no other facility available at present or in the foreseeable future provides the range and advantages for in-pile loss of coolant accident simulation . ’ |
| 2 | It is usual today therefore to provide a number of general electronic interfaces to which a range of transput devices can be attached , and a set of general instructions which can be used to control any transput device available at present or in the future , from the computer manufacturer or elsewhere . |
| 3 | A lot of the problems we meet up with in the surgery are related to difficulties people have in their lives at present or in the past . |
| 4 | For the most part , children , whether at primary or at secondary school , learn much the same , wherever they are at school ; and the system of public examinations , externally monitored , ensures that there is a reasonable degree of uniformity . |
| 5 | The Seller shall be under no liability , whether at contract or in tort or otherwise , in respect of the quality of the goods or their fitness for any purpose , save that , if the Buyer is a natural person , in accordance with the provisions of s 2(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , the Seller accepts and does not seek to limit or exclude liability for any death or personal injury caused to the Buyer by reason of the Seller 's negligence . |
| 6 | The Royal Commission on Legal Services supported the proposals of the Evershed Committee , with the proviso that the judge at trial or on appeal should also be able to determine eligibility in cases where the point at issue does not emerge until later . |
| 7 | The court can make an order for provisional damages at trial or on an earlier settlement , but the settlement must be approved even if the plaintiff is not under a disability . |
| 8 | Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’ |
| 9 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 10 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 11 | Precedent 4 is a document which would be used where second hand goods were sold , for instance , at auction or over the counter , rather than in the context of a sale governed by a set of standard terms and conditions . |
| 12 | The book will remain a valuable source of permanent reference , whether in the store , in a museum , at auction or at home . |
| 13 | The bulk of our students require computer training which they can use to advantage at interview or in post with an accounting firm , commercial venture , publishing house , or wherever else they end up . |
| 14 | Specific advice should be included in the Branch handbook and training should be provided in order that managers understand what constitutes less favourable treatment , particularly in respect of the asking of questions at appraisal , at interview or before interview because negative assumptions are made about their ability to be mobile . |
| 15 | To follow our example through , leaving school is often a traumatic time : there is usually much regret but , on the other hand , there is also great excitement at the thought of doing new things and meeting new people at college or at work or wherever the next part of our life takes us . |
| 16 | Often , a graduate has to complete a year at college or at law school after taking a degree . |
| 17 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 18 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 19 | There are no randomised studies of the efficacy of surgical ablation of endometriosis either at laparotomy or at laparoscopy on future fertility . |
| 20 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |
| 21 | You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing . |
| 22 | AGE — ( duration of life at death , at birth of child , at delivery of fetus , at marriage or at another event ) is the estimated or calculated interval between the date of birth and the date of occurrence of the event , expressed in completed units of time . |
| 23 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 24 | Sir [ James ] Fitzjames Stephen ( afterwards Stephen J. ) , in [ A General View of the Criminal Law of England ( 1863 ) , p. 129 ] , suggested as a definition of theft : ‘ To steal is unlawfully , and with intent to defraud , by taking , by embezzlement , by obtaining by false pretences , or in any other manner whatever to appropriate to the use of any person any property whatever real or personal in possession or in action , so as to deprive any other person of the advantage of any beneficial interest at law or in equity , which he may have therein . ’ |
| 25 | These activities relate to planning , making decisions about and carrying out events at work or for leisure : for example in shopping , planning a journey or organizing a party . |
| 26 | You share your identity with your mates at work or with your own age at school , not with your elder brother . |
| 27 | It is extremely painful for them to add to their burdens at a time when they are most hard pressed at work or with their own families . |
| 28 | Every day people are engaged in many activities with the specific purpose of maintaining a safe environment , whether at home or at work or at play or travelling . |
| 29 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 30 | There is substantial evidence that social support , at work or at home , may provide an effective insulator or buffer against the effects of stress . |