Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you can worry about that at the early end of the week |
| 2 | This can not , of course , apply to outcrop rock such as that at the old village of Tockmal on the Oa , which has a group of shallow cups . |
| 3 | County Council 's encouraged by the fact that the introduction Policy E two is supported by all the North Yorkshire Districts and they are after all at the sharp end of implementing structure policy . |
| 4 | The 22-year-old left-hander batted for nearly three hours for 69 to help the leaders to 266 for six at the close — still 29 short of avoiding the follow-on . |
| 5 | One barometer of health — LTOM 's volume of contracts traded compared with the volume of underlying stocks — is less than half of that at the European Options Exchange in Amsterdam or the Chicago Board Options Exchange . |
| 6 | The tour in question is expected to begin in the summer of 1993 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , and then travel to Tokyo and Paris , if the Orphans Court of Montgomery County , Pennsylvania , allows the Barnes Foundation to override the indenture to benefactor Albert C. Barnes 's will that prohibits the loan of any works from the eccentric millionaire 's collection . |
| 7 | THREE Ulster boxers have been named to represent Ireland in a team of six at the European Junior boxing championships in Greece starting on September 25 . |
| 8 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 9 | What was the point of voting Conservative in a constituency such as Blaenau Gwent , for example , where the Labour candidate had a majority in excess of 20,000 at the previous election ? |
| 10 | De-luxe car 66 of 1911 at the new Bispham Station , built in 1932 replacing the old Company building . |
| 11 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 12 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 13 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 14 | THE spectacularly ambitious plan by the Welsh Rugby Union to raise funds with a massed male-voice choir of 10,000 at the National Stadium in Cardiff next month is well under way . |
| 15 | We have observed that plasmid pFRC64 , relaxed at 100 mM KCl ( optimum for topoisomerase I ) , acquires a superhelical density of -0.006 at the ionic conditions used in the transcription assays ( not shown ) . |
| 16 | Henley 's M P , Michael Heseltine in fiery form against Labour at the Tory Party Conference . |
| 17 | A TWO-PRONGED counter-offensive is to be launched next week against Labour at the Conservative Party conference by Cabinet ministers , with a series of announcements and an attempt to explode the ‘ myth ’ of Labour 's new image . |
| 18 | Smaller stations , however , like that at the fashionable resort of Hua Hin , adopted a local multi-roofed pagoda style . |
| 19 | Yet he was active in the early stages of the Anglo-Scottish war after 1542 and was amongst those at the English victory at Solway Moss , but he died ( it is not clear where ) 18 October 1544 . |
| 20 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was considered possible , though doubtless unjustifiably , that some sharp practice might result , such as admixing rich ore from other parts of the mine with that at the reduced Royalty ! |
| 22 | ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident . |
| 23 | But we 've found some thin sliced bread including some at the Late Shopper in Bedale ( thin sliced long loaf 53p ) and we liked the suggestion from Margaret Gent , our retiring switchboard lady , who says she buys uncut loaves and slices them very thinly with an electric carving knife … |
| 24 | For working-class people , the crisis — economic , political or cultural — is being experienced above all at the local level yet is the outcome of unprecedentedly global forces . |
| 25 | At that time the total number of staff employed amounted to about 3400 including those at the Head Office in London . |
| 26 | Morris had been charged with creating a computer programme ( a " virus " ) in 1988 which entered and blocked Internet , a computer network used by over 6,000 computers including those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and military establishments . |
| 27 | A man has appeared in an Ulster Court charged with eleven murders including seven at the Rising Sun pub in Greysteel . |
| 28 | They were 132 for 6 at the close and it was clearly time to pray for rain ; but it came on the rest day by mistake , and although Emburey and Downton battled for a while , the end was not long delayed . |
| 29 | But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system . |
| 30 | If individuals in the society ( except for those at the very top and the very bottom of the social ladder ) are socially mobile in each direction to some extent , then the " continuum " can be seen as consisting of a collection of individuals whose linguistic competences in intermediate varieties ( or " lects " ) overlap to form an unbroken chain linking the archetypal Creole ( or " basilect " ) with the Standard ( or " acrolect " ) . |