Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 This was to be achieved by coordinating the listing conditions in member states , and thus to provide similar protection for investors at Community level and to enable EC-wide listing of member state securities .
2 Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children .
3 These synthetic chemicals were first generally introduced in the late 1940s and early 1950s , and are mainly used in two stages in arable operations — as protection for seed at sowing , and as protection for the growing crop .
4 After the sudden retirement of the previous postholder , we require a valet for duties at his home on a private island in the South China Sea .
5 Get Ready ! is the ideal preparation for English at primary level , giving pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning .
6 These courses are also a preparation for work at the hardware/software interface and provide the potential for work in hardware design .
7 Or are we seeing an indication that some inner processes of preparation for loss at this time of life have come into play ?
8 The fictional Eastertide death of Philip at Lydiard Constantine ( in Swindon ) , leaving the narrator to continue the kind of life that Thomas himself followed in his preparation for matriculation at Oxford in October 1897 , reads like a youthful reaction to the actual death of Ashcroft Noble on Good Friday 1896 .
9 At this time Pope was busily engaged in constructing two new ovens , stoves and a hothouse for pineapples at Twickenham , so it is more than likely that there was further correspondence or discussion with Miller on exotics .
10 It is an industry which , given fair tax treatment , has substantial opportunity for expansion at home and abroad .
11 However , someone in Wilson 's office proceeded to leak my name to the press , which used it as an opportunity for jibes at him , particularly as he had contrived an impression that the negotiations had succeeded because of him .
12 For example , the UK Census questionnaire is essentially hand-distributed , self-administered with an opportunity for clarification at collection time .
13 Referrals er he was adamant it was two hundred pounds he was gon na get so there was an opportunity for referrals at the end from , from people that work with him .
14 Hired by the voyage , and at the mercy of the shipowners , they had no opportunity for combination at sea short of mutiny and only rare opportunity when on shore , and then only by petition and demonstration .
15 Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas .
16 A local authority has been found guilty of maladministration for not telling residents before giving planning permission for floodlights at a rugby stadium .
17 He said , ‘ We are currently in the process of completing a contract for SEP at the A1 nuclear power station at Bohunice to decontaminate the reactor hall .
18 That 's on top of securing a supply and maintenance contract for ponds at the latest Center Parcs complex at Elveden , and getting some surprise , but welcome , publicity as a result of treating a large , valuable and decidedly sick carp for an angling syndicate .
19 Of all the music business agreements artists are likely to sign ( with the possible exception of the agreement between the different members of the band ) , the management/artist relationship is a contract for services at its most personal .
20 Graham , offered a contract for life at Highbury , added : ‘ I 'm very happy at Arsenal .
21 Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract .
22 By holding a long contract for delivery at T 1 and a short contract for delivery at T 2 , it would be possible to take delivery at T 1 for P f 1 and keep the asset for making delivery at T 2 for P f 2 and to make a sure profit .
23 By holding a long contract for delivery at T 1 and a short contract for delivery at T 2 , it would be possible to take delivery at T 1 for P f 1 and keep the asset for making delivery at T 2 for P f 2 and to make a sure profit .
24 With the masons Henry Yevele and William Wynford [ qq.v. ] he entered into a contract for repairs at Carisbrooke Castle ( Isle of Wight ) in 1384 .
25 By 1963 , under the pressure of opinion already analysed and the genial leadership of Boyle , the rationale of any rigorous Conservative case for selection at eleven-plus had been fatally undermined .
26 In some towns , party rivalries during Anne 's reign become so intense that they resulted in the setting-up of rival Whig and Tory corporations , as was the case for example at Brackley , Buckingham , Camelford , Marlborough and Portsmouth .
27 Accordingly the ‘ cohort's- including the family , especially Maurice Macmillan and Julian Amery-warmly urged the case for Hailsham at the Imperial Hotel .
28 Some time ago the Scottish Office put a submission to British Steel on the case for investment at Dalzell .
29 His brother Dmitrii had been making a good case for emancipation at the War Ministry , but his own importance , in the long run , was to be greater .
30 Such relations both define the form of inequality between places at any one time and also help set the scene for the next form of uneven development .
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