Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [conj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered closely at her face ; there were a few lines about the mouth and eyes but at forty-seven that was only to be expected . |
| 2 | Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald . |
| 3 | … RENFE avoided all confrontations with the workforce , in the attempt to ensure that people no longer talked in terms of fascists and non-fascists but at the most in terms of left-wing and right-wing , in other words the company managed to dilute or avoid social and political tensions resulting from the transition ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 4 | A realignment of the work of those thousand teachers aimed as much at servicing teachers and schools as at treating individual pupils is a realistic consideration . |
| 5 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 6 | Thus in the purely Russian ‘ black earth ’ provinces ( as distinct from the Ukraine and the steppe frontier ) capitalist agriculture was slow to develop , labour dues remained prevalent in the late 1880s , while the expansion of tillage ( at the expense of meadows and pastures and at the cost of reinforcing the old three-field system ) lagged far behind the southern grain lands . |
| 7 | In developed and developing countries alike indigenous paraprofessionals seem to be more effective than professionals in working with certain clients and communities or at the very least they are seen as adding a valuable dimension to social service provision . |
| 8 | She was born in the Rhondda Valley in 1939 and trained at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools in 1965 , when she was living in Smethwick in the West Midlands , she won a Cinzano Art Foundation Award with her painting The Whale , which enables her to spend six months at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome . |
| 9 | Some of the stories were pretty fanciful and involved helicopters and mercenaries but at least one claimed that Blake would be helped to escape by another prisoner and once free would go to East Germany and thence to Russia . |
| 10 | Waddington 's formula is a large stock of modern and contemporary art picked to satisfy a broad range of tastes and pockets and at this year 's fair he will show works by Lichtenstein , Warhol , Sean Scully , Julian Schnabel , Michael Craig Martin , Barry Flanagan , Fiona Rae and Ian Davenport . |
| 11 | Except soldiers and airmen when on active service and mariners while at sea , no infant can dispose of his property by will . |
| 12 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 13 | Where they stood , barely a mile from the aircraft 's final resting place , there was no escaping a muted collective anger — directed as much at seemingly complacent airport authorities and governments as at the perpetrators of mass murder a year ago . |
| 14 | Pupils at Key Stage 2 will be introduced to a wider range of sources and resources than at Key Stage 1 . |
| 15 | The National Health Service administrator may be critical of the doctor who is profligate in the use of equipment and resources and at the same time the doctor may resent having to' account for expenditure to the administrator who may lack the medical expertise to understand why such equipment and resources were used . |
| 16 | With unaccustomed haste , the Nez Perce herded up their scattered horses and cattle and at the end of May Joseph led his band and 6000 animals up the Imnaha valley . |
| 17 | And then I have always fancied a little hall and stairs because at the farm the stairs came straight down to the front door . |
| 18 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 19 | Tinned foods had been brought out to India by various visiting Test and County Cricket Board officials and spectators and at lunch yesterday England 's players were able to choose from tuna , boiled ham , corned beef , baked beans , vegetable soup , chicken pate , tea , coffee and boiled rice . |
| 20 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 21 | They served to mark conspicuous waste in the form of offerings and sacrifices and at the same time as objects of conspicuous consumption on the part of individuals highly placed in social hierarchies . |
| 22 | The congregation was a colourful mixture of students , teaching staff , and parishioners and at least one College Principal was in the congregation . |
| 23 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 24 | There are several smart new dwellings here , no doubt built upon the old closes and orchards where at one time the Anabaptists were buried . |
| 25 | These provided for the introduction of value added tax ( VAT ) at 5 per cent on essential goods and services and at 23 per cent on other goods . |