Example sentences of "in the [noun] of [noun pl] at " in BNC.

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1 A common cause of deterioration in the performance of amplifiers at high frequencies is the presence of capacitance between the output and input .
2 Where opportunities for controlling situations and events in a more organized sense are constricted as in the case of women at home — it is logical to assume that power to exert control through gossip becomes relatively more important .
3 For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction .
4 While it is true to say that there is no simple relation of general application in the case of materials at large strains there are certain general principles which have been formulated by the theoreticians and which in particular cases lead to expressions capable of experimental test .
5 Salisbury had remarked in 1911 that " whatever your own opinions , the Conservative party can only assimilate change gradually " , and this was certainly so in the case of personnel at the top .
6 According to Trudgill ( 1986 : 37 ) it is " salient features of the target variety that are adjusted to , except that , in the case of adults at least , a number of factors combine to delay this modification to different extents " .
7 In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players .
8 We report here that roots in the northern forest consistently lived the longest , principally owing to greater rates of mortality early in the life of roots at the southern site .
9 The practical considerations involved in the storage of samples at a number of different conditions of temperature and humidity are related to the scale of the operation .
10 ‘ I always try to have some fun in my tricks and for them to be new , ’ says the 54-year-old , caught in the middle of rehearsals at Lincoln Theatre Royal during the current national tour .
11 Yesterday , sealed bids from England and the sub-continent were opened by ICC officials in the presence of lawyers at Lord 's , and both English and Indian administrators intend to issue statements tomorrow outlining their bids .
12 A mixture of the bacteria were grown in oxygen-free conditions in the presence of CFCs at densities commonly-occurring in the atmosphere .
13 The whole transaction conforms in detail to known Hittite law ( the mention of the trees , the weighing of the silver by current standards , and the proclamation in the presence of witnesses at the city gate ) .
14 The concerns of a small group of desert raiders probably came very low in the order of priorities at the time .
15 Nearer at hand he had been involved in the building of forts at Bovisand and Crownhill .
16 For too long women have been the hidden gender in rock , all too often fixed in the position of worshippers at the phallic shrine , bewitched by their own male idols .
17 The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ .
18 Monsieur Tran Van Lung is a high official in the Ministry of Rites at the imperial court of Hue , " he added for his sons ' benefit .
19 The first exploded in the chamber of horrors at Tussauds in Baker Street , central London , just after 1am yesterday .
20 While , for many years , there has been discussion , in the Schools Council and elsewhere , about the reform of the examination system and the closer integration of CSE and GCE , Sir Keith Joseph gave notice in January 1984 of much more radical changes in the assessment of pupils at the end of compulsory schooling .
21 They included measures to limit working hours for women and children , to improve housing and public health , to make education for children compulsory , to provide for the safety of workers ( including the payment of compensation by employers in the event of accidents at work ) , and even to extend the right to strike .
22 There was a significant improvement in the attendance of miners at the Mansfield clinic , however , since this was much closer to their homes .
23 At the start of the Queen 's reign this feature of the London season was still formalized in the presentation of debutantes at Buckingham Palace which was followed by a series of coming-out balls .
24 His philosophy was embodied in the declaration of principles at Cincinnati in 1877 , founding modern penology .
25 That will lead to an increase in the number of operations at the Royal .
26 This contributed to a fall of 423,000 , from 1971 to 1981 , in the number of males at work .
27 The year after this , street lighting was introduced using oil lamps on pillars ; there was a drastic reduction in the number of muggings at night , a plague of city life in the late eighteenth-century .
28 There may be a gain in the number of children at the school but this could well have happened through factors such as population change or a new housing development that are totally unconnected to the work on raising the school 's visibility and image .
29 cf. American Notes , 17 : ‘ hear the public opinion of the free South , as expressed by its own members in the House of Representatives at Washington …
30 The trilobites evolved rapidly , and can therefore be used extensively in the dating of rocks at this time .
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