Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent decision by the Council 's Personnel Committee has established that non-smoking will be the norm for employees at work and the ban will mean : |
| 2 | The main and practical effect will be the absence of controls at frontiers , heralding an end to the days of entering and clearing goods from other member states . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most crucial part of the golf swing is the change of directions at the top of the backswing . |
| 4 | The only thing to watch is the likelihood of oddities at large transitions — all 0s to all 1s , for example . |
| 5 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 6 | It is the sound of men at work on the future . |
| 7 | The southern area ( Canning Town ) is the abode of workers at the docks , gas works and sugar refineries , marmalade and rubber factories : there is also a fleeting population of seafaring men of various races who help to provide a livelihood for the keepers of numerous common lodging houses … |
| 8 | What always annoys me is the display of sweets at the check-out right where the children can grab them . ’ |
| 9 | The best case in point , of course , is the quadrupling of funds at the National Cancer Institute following Richard Nixon 's declaration of the ‘ war on cancer ’ . |
| 10 | I doubt if it is possible to hold the view of Margalef ( 1968 ) that ‘ Relevant evidence does not consist of a massive accumulation of trivia ’ and reconcile it with his ‘ Ecology … is the study of systems at a level at which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction … ’ . |
| 11 | One of the ideas mooted which has won some support is the introduction of leaflets at outdoor gear retail outlets . |
| 12 | One of the most curious of these was the knighting of ambassadors at the end of their mission by the monarch to whom they had been accredited and the grant to them of augmentations to their coats of arms . |
| 13 | In the first place , there was the range of benefits at the government 's disposal — subsidies , credit , large contracts , tariff protection . |
| 14 | There are two factors to worry them and one was the quality of crosses at Ibrox . |