Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the NSF 's statistics that led President Carter 's administration to feed more funds to basic science , though it is doubtful whether the numbers help in decision making at a more detailed level — whether to increase or cut a laboratory 's budget , for example . |
| 2 | He estimates that an executive sous-chef working in a top London restaurant or hotel would be earning between £25,000 and £27,000 , whereas a head chef in contract catering at a director 's dining room , for example , would be doing very well to earn £20,000 . |
| 3 | Adjustment may well be necessary , however , to exclude the element of partners ' salaries from work in progress totals at the end of the financial year . |
| 4 | Analysis of their expression in pheochromocytoma PC 12 cells which mimicks neuronal development has shown that the NF-L and NF-M genes are at least in part controlled at the level of transcription , whereas the induction of NF-H by nerve growth factor is controlled post-transcriptionally ( 4,5 ) . |
| 5 | Interest in knitting began at the age of nine and resulted in many short stripy scarves ! |
| 6 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 7 | Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences . |
| 8 | Redness , on the other hand , which is associated both with the ( destructive ) shedding of blood and with the primordial ties of kinship in blood signifies at a more abstract level discontinuity , disharmony , and might acquired by , and displayed in , breaking the rules of order and harmony . |
| 9 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 10 | This exercise would be especially useful if it was used in work looking at the development of castles , from motte and bailey , to stone keep , to sophisticated fortress . |
| 11 | The customers in return sneered at the clothing offered to them , and flung it on the ground . |
| 12 | A LEAP of nearly three million-tonnes in cargo handled at the Port of Liverpool helped the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company lift pre-tax profits last year by 24 per cent to £16.4 million . |
| 13 | In slang used at the time , to open your budget meant to speak your mind . |
| 14 | This is a gutsy South African first novel , a romantic adventure , with the next one in hardback coming at the same time , and she will be in the UK promoting . |
| 15 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 16 | Researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories reported the discovery of superconductivity in buckyball compounds at the American Chemical Society meeting in April . |
| 17 | August 3 : Cannabis worth £7,500 and £1,000 in cash seized at a house in Wellington Park , Belfast . |
| 18 | The superscalar machine is reportedly in alpha testing at the moment — director of Bell 's computer services division , Steve Eskernazi claims that ‘ it is going better than expected … we 're very confident about its success . ’ |
| 19 | He has appeared in charity shows at the club for more than 20 years and we well-known throughout the area for his untiring efforts for worthy causes . |
| 20 | FOUR days ago a diminutive figure dressed in black called at the Yorkshire home of Allan and Barbara Bland , parents of the Hillsborough disaster victim , Tony Bland . |
| 21 | There was a marked reduction in subsidence claims at the full year — down from $35.7m to $17.5m . |
| 22 | Decentralisation refers to three main features of central-local government relationships : the range of services for which local government authorities are responsible ; the degree of discretion that local government authorities have in providing these services and the degree to which local politicians and officials can make their voices heard in policy making at the national level . |
| 23 | Traditionally everything is carried in baskets on the head or shoulders , and you can often see these large wicker baskets full of cabbage , potatoes , oranges , apples or whatever is in season waiting at the side of the road for transport to the market in Funchal . |
| 24 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
| 25 | There is an urgent need for research to clarify whether socio-economic differentials in ill-health persist at the level of Health Authorities , once the SMRs have been controlled . |
| 26 | Am I alone in feeling threatened at the thought that audit is supervised by direct employees of the family health services authority ? |
| 27 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 28 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 29 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 30 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |