Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These hospitals were funded by Iran to treat battle casualties — Hezbollah , Amal militiamen and Syrian troops , depending on who happened to be fighting whom at the time — and they were ideal places for holding hostages . |
| 2 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 3 | It allows , to give another example , Tom Stabler 's middle juniors to identify with the Bible story of Jezebel which at a surface level was quite outside their experience . |
| 4 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 5 | The firemen 's water had contained an extinguishing agent which at specific temperatures has an exalting effect on colour emulsion . |
| 6 | The government also provided a multitude of tax concessions which at their 1955 peak probably reduced average corporation-tax liability by one-fifth , falling to around 12 per cent in the early sixties . |
| 7 | This led to a field study which at least seemed to locate not only the site but the probable outlines of the building . |
| 8 | The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm . |
| 9 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 10 | But if worship is the foundation of all the Church 's other activities , greater priority must be given to matters liturgical and musical , even at the expense of some subjects which at present form part of the syllabus . |
| 11 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 12 | Mr Campbell commented ‘ The most important recent development in ordinary shares was the reverse yield gap which at present stands at the alarming value of 4 ¼%.; |
| 13 | She heard voices which at first made little sense , could not , for the moment , think where she might be or even who she was . |
| 14 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 15 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |
| 16 | Any loss which at the time of making the contract the defendant could have predicted as likely ( or not unlikely ) to result from the breach of it . |
| 17 | If the mother notices that he does not like certain songs she at once introduces others with different phrases and melody embodying the same teaching . |
| 18 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 19 | Yet it did not generally solve the problem of keeping labour itself at work , loyally , diligently and modestly . |
| 20 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 21 | So it was again later , but from the mid eighth century to the mid sixth she found a rival who at times surpassed her , Corinth . |
| 22 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 23 | She had experienced her mother as a distant figure who at times just grabbed her and moved her about , but she had not had the physical and emotional closeness that she craved and needed . |
| 24 | The program puts up words one at a time , in transcription , and the user 's task is to read the word and then input it in normal spelling . |
| 25 | cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt . |
| 26 | Better than the knobbly knees one at any rate . |
| 27 | The instructor should distribute Handout 13 , then go through the steps one at a time using the details in the text and asking the trainees to complete exercises where necessary . |
| 28 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 29 | He appreciated how that quality was still apparent tonight ; although now , in the half-light , he thought he could detect something else : relief , perhaps , at being able to unburden herself at last . |
| 30 | For this implies that if there is an unexpected rise in demand in period t consumers will not be able to buy the quantity of the good they at time period t - 1 , or ex ante , considered optimal at the set price . |