Example sentences of "at [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case was noteworthy for the fact that a section hitherto thought to be aimed only at espionage had been employed against peaceful protesters . |
| 2 | In fact the municipal system as at present constituted is an astonishing block of power , controlled by professionals who run the schools and the social services , and by the administrators and councillors who operate the machine in a bureaucratic darkness rarely pierced by public inspection ’ ( Walker , 1983 , p. 4 ) . |
| 3 | If fewer convictions result , this is a price which must be paid and a price which the police force as at present trained are unable to accept . |
| 4 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 5 | At present waste is only collected free of charge from churches and charitable organisations . |
| 6 | The Reich 's attempts at industrialisation had been contradicted by the effort to retain a semi-feudal social and political structure . |
| 7 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 8 | Two men who raided a supermarket after kidnapping the supervisor and her husband at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of twelve years . |
| 9 | In addition to this , many of the residential workshops at Highlander have been recorded on video , and make hours of fascinating viewing . |
| 10 | Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation . |
| 11 | A new guide on the storage and handling of flammable solids at work has been prepared jointly by the HSE , the Home Office and the Scottish Office . |
| 12 | A model for the effective management of health and safety at work has been produced . |
| 13 | A questionnaire concerned with the structure of the labour force , work conditions and health and safety at work has been sent to local branches of every trade union in Norwich and the surrounding area , through the trade union representatives ; this survey provides valuable information on employment and conditions of work , as well as on rates of unionisation . |
| 14 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 15 | As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on . |
| 16 | Even independently of each other the topics of dementia and care at home have been arousing enormous interest , not only among elderly people in need of care or support and among their relatives and friends , but also among service-providers , policymakers and planners . |
| 17 | There are some observers who think this to be admirable ; but there are others who believe that in such cases the basic obligations that should keep such enthusiasts at home have been obscured by pretension and sentimentality . |
| 18 | Yet , despite the company 's success abroad , business at home has been very slow . |
| 19 | I wonder what his parents thought of him , but does n't it all boil down to what life at home has been like . |
| 20 | A BREATHTAKING warning about the dangers of smoking at home has been handed out by health watchdogs and firemen . |
| 21 | Recession abroad has hit exports hard and though business at home has been improving slowly since the start of the year , confidence remains weak . |
| 22 | Indeed , an attempt at reform had been tried in 1977 and failed . |
| 23 | ‘ The much-heralded Banking Code of Practice appears to show willing , but most banks ’ efforts at reform have been reluctant and puny . |
| 24 | John Graf , whose form at outside-half has been a highlight , captained B.C. In the continuing absence of Norm Hadley and proceeded to score 23 points in a 38–10 result . |
| 25 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 26 | It was only when she began to spend time at CBS 's corporate headquarters that Wilson realised just how congenial the atmosphere at Virgin had been by comparison — particularly for a highly motivated woman . |
| 27 | What nobody at Virgin knew was quite what form that change should take . |
| 28 | Our efforts at self-help have been much encouraged by the generosity of Mr Peter Leaver , Q.C. , Mr Samuel Stamler , Q.C. , and other members of Mr Stamler 's Chambers , who have undertaken to meet the cost ofthe Law Reports and some of our journals for the next five years . |
| 29 | The last full analysis of reported cases , made in 1980 , shows 41 per cent to be occurring in tropical Africa ( where virtually no attempt at control has been made so far ) , 22 per cent in the Indian subcontinent and 31 per cent in Eastern Asia and Oceania ; only 5 per cent of cases were reported from Europe , the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and South America . |
| 30 | attempts at control have been successful or not is , in many ways , irrelevant . |