Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , ‘ we 're on our way to the Benson & Hedges match at Cardiff . ’ |
| 2 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 3 | Induced fractures or cracks occur at the borehole wall as the result of off-loading the stresses during the drilling operation . |
| 4 | The existence of a cheap national network of accommodation , however diffuse , unstructured and unregulated , is one reason why Forte and other groups have not opened super-budget hotels like their French counterpart Accor , where rooms sell at approximately £15 a night . |
| 5 | Male black grouse or blackcocks congregate at traditional lekking sites where they compete for the attentions of the females . |
| 6 | Why do not schools or colleges display at their gate or on their notepaper or in their prospectus ‘ Twinned with Philips ’ or ‘ Partnered with Boots ’ ? |
| 7 | One useful tip is that , towards the end when there are few chairs left , have two children or adults stand at either end of the room . |
| 8 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 9 | Lastly , I should have said that entries close at 17.00 GMT on Fri 14th ( not 13th , as I said earlier ) . |
| 10 | These and other observations have led to the obvious speculation that plumes arise at the core-mantle boundary . |
| 11 | And it will isolate the more effective techniques that parents have at their disposal for communicating with their children . |
| 12 | This unique video shows all the build up to the World Angling Championship in 1990 , the practice sessions , discussions , the work which ensures that England remain at the top of the world . |
| 13 | She makes a point of reading out loud items from her newspaper , the Hindustan Times , which demonstrate to her satisfaction the old Indian view that Wogs begin at Kabul and that civilization stops on the banks of the Indus . |
| 14 | We must correct this tendency which is almost a cultural problem , ’ Louis Gallois , a leading civil servant told a conference last month , so revealing that planners have at last caught a whiff of their inbuilt handicap . |
| 15 | While Molloy and Carroll use groupings which are slightly different from those used by Bourner and Hamed , the overall picture is clear in that a substantial number of those student groups entering with qualifications other than A-levels perform at least as well , and in some cases better , than those with A level entry . |
| 16 | Scots per every single pair … that taylors work at four shill . |
| 17 | They always say that families argue at Christmas — mine do n't much — it 's more me , I think ! |
| 18 | Despite Maury 's odd experience with the French Revolution , it seems that dreams proceed at a " normal " temporal pace . |
| 19 | Simple denial — the straightforward refusal to accept that something is so and that problems exist at all or have a direct connection with alcohol or drug use : " I can handle it " . |
| 20 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 21 | It may also be observed from ( 15.10 ) that difficulties occur at the points . |
| 22 | Lord Kincraig recommended that Campbell serve at least 20 years for his part in the crime . |
| 23 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 24 | But in choosing whether to hold money or to buy assets , it is the nominal rate of interest that people look at , since that is the opportunity cost of holding money . |
| 25 | People try to classify what sorts of group or characteristics there are of groups and you find that people look at group size , let's go through the list , group size , communication networks , roles and expectations , norms and rules , okay well roles and expectations , norms and rules slightly different . |
| 26 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 27 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
| 28 | For development , the importance of explanations at the molecular level is that genes act at this level . |
| 29 | As we feel it is most important that our pupils should benefit from the best teaching materials available , it is our policy to ensure that teachers have at their disposal a wide range of supplementary materials from which they can select what is appropriate for each set . |
| 30 | Although teachers flinch at such international comparisons , most of them are surprisingly enthusiastic about the national curriculum . |