Example sentences of "at [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let us promote better health for the population that we have at present instead of experimenting with high-cost technology . |
| 2 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 3 | However , if you happen to be in a situation where you are out for lunch , then you can happily have your dessert at lunch-time instead of that evening . |
| 4 | He was first away and in the lead at Coleraine ahead of Ian Duffus , Kevin Mitchell and Joey Dunlop . |
| 5 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |
| 6 | I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’ |
| 7 | One would be recruited ; the other Reg Raven , would remain at work instead of retiring . |
| 8 | Injury benefit is payable to anyone injured or disabled at work regardless of contributions . |
| 9 | The FTSE index of the leading 100 companies opened down a marginal 1.1 at 2704.5 , with interest focused more closely on political uncertainty at home ahead of tonight 's Europe vote . |
| 10 | Even their experience of unemployment was different , for they might still have to ‘ work ’ at home instead of being idle . |
| 11 | One can imagine the savings in foreign exchange if British people took their holidays at home instead of abroad . |
| 12 | David Jones of Sharelink has proposed an order-driven system for small value share transactions which would be displayed on investors ' TV screens at home instead of on TOPIC . |
| 13 | Gordon Waller 46 , of Fowey , Cornwall , singer with the 1960's duo Peter and Gordon who had a hit with World Without Love , was cleared at Bodmin yesterday of sending an indecent fax message . |
| 14 | SAINSBURY has 40 frozen , thin pork sausages at £1.99 instead of £2.39 . |
| 15 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |
| 16 | The Masses were held at Christmas , and at Scone instead of the newly finished cathedral at Birsay , for the King did not go to Orkney that winter . |
| 17 | By cutting corners on the main line to enable trains to travel at 90mph instead of 75mph , a single-lead junction , similar to the one at Bellgrove , had been installed . |
| 18 | He already knew most of the city 's different districts and its short cuts , its sudden changes of place and people ; it was just that now he would see the shop windows shining at night instead of by day , see them gliding past from a car or taxi window as he was driven home for the night . |
| 19 | Colchester GP Nick Dixon said a continuing increase in daytime work was making the responsibility of being on duty at night more of a strain . |
| 20 | Simon Povoas , the replacement on Saturday , stands in for Richards again and Jez Harris , a bench reserve of late , gets a run at outside-half instead of Ainscough . |
| 21 | The result would be a shot which curves away to the right , as shown in Diagram B. In addition , such a late hit combined with a normal release would often top the ball as the hands arrive at impact ahead of the clubhead . |
| 22 | Only thus will land be made available at minimum instead of monopoly prices , and only thus will the would-be developer be enabled to foresee his commitments and calculate his risks — both essential conditions of ‘ mass production ’ in house-building . |
| 23 | He has also observed that an immediate cause of the creation of this new duty of the judges was the royal mandate which ordered the Court of Common Pleas to remain stationary at Westminster instead of perambulating the country in attendance on the King , and the subsequent disinclination of the serjeants , even if they had been sufficient in number , to absent themselves from the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in order to attend the King 's Court during its perambulatory travels . |
| 24 | Waddle switches to the left for the injured Barnes and Parker plays at right-back instead of Stevens . |
| 25 | Red-faced Radio Cleveland presenter Tim Ellingford flew into a panic when an airline bungle by left him stranded at Heathrow instead of hosting the Sunday lunchtime show from Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | I hue written at length elsewhere of the peculiarity and wastefulness of the Western habit of argument and clash . |
| 27 | Oswiu 's appointment of Chad to Paulinus ' former bishopric at York instead of Lindisfarne represents a most important change of direction on the king 's part , and his immediate dispatch of Chad to Kent suggests a desire to renew an older relationship with the archiepiscopal community there . |
| 28 | The latter were incensed at what they regarded as hitting below the belt and retaliated with vicious shootings at policemen regardless of whether they were the men responsible . |
| 29 | Oh what do they call it , what you have at Christmas instead of ? |
| 30 | A deal of debate centred around her decision to defend her title in the English Girls ' Championship at Edgbaston instead of playing in the British Women 's Open at Ferndown . |