How To Use At In A Sentence

If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim

I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.
A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.
Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions. The Unshine Boys
People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted. Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
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An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality. Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
deflate a balloon
The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
Serve the chicken with salads and chips or potatoes. Times, Sunday Times
Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
I am told that Ferguson has called me 'unsellable'. The Guardian World News
When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
a class in conversational Spanish.
In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
The fin's origin is relatively far behind the pelvic fin insertion.
I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
The school has a very good relationship with the community.
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
The first batch of ten shows is seen as a test of viewer demand. Times, Sunday Times
They have recognized that their business depends on world of mouth, and that world of mouth is based on customer satisfaction.
Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
In Bermuda, Sam's father took him on an excursion to a coral barrier.
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with. The Sun
Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English. When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun
It's impossible to look at yourself in a pair of new frames and not see another character. Times, Sunday Times
The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
A second problem is damage caused by the buildup of excessive electrical charges in the plate from the unwanted ions.
The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening. Undefined
One infers that all of this would be computerised information.
Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
A boa made from black water mink is worth about 50 dollars, a collarette about $100,00 and a coat reaching down to the hips would cost about $250,00. Black Beaver The Trapper
Who is willing to believe that Alexandria is exactly 5000 stadia from Syene, whatever the value of the stadium?
If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
His self-image is rooted in robotic toughness, like the shape-shifting, molten-metal fiend in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.
We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
I expect him to win the rematch. The Sun
Former Rep. Steve Pearce (R) is running to re-claim his old seat. House Democrats reserve $49 million in ad time
Nursing commissioned officer ( NNCO ) is a special necessary colony. Educate to NNCO is a new thing.
The demonstration is set for Sunday to coincide with World AIDS Day.
Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
Pay particular attention to zoning in each of the alternatives proposed for your area.
It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
I often position an athlete in front of a mirror that has grid lines on it, ask them to close their eyes and stand up straight. Muscle Management
Would you stop making jokes at my expense?
Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life.
I didn't know my success was going to be so big and that I would become 'the subtractor', always subtracting six years. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
Attention, Kmart shoppers: privacy for sale, aisle nine.
Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework. Sewing Simple Clothing
Taiwan grabbed two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Athens Olympics.
Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
So there is mounting concern at the top of government about how close to meltdown the prison system is. The Sun
The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
The BBC never tires of telling us how passionately it seeks the interest and participation of the public in its political output, particularly the young.
They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
Toast sandwiches in a dry skillet over medium-low heat until outside is golden brown and inside is delightfully melty, about 3 minutes per side.
These planes are made with two separate stocks held together with either metal or turned wooden screws.
The little divil that stole the dog-team an 'wint over the Pass in the dead o' winter for to see where the world come to an ind on the ither side, just because old Matt McCarthy was afther tellin 'her fairy stories? CHAPTER I
The seeds were then cut in half longitudinally and deposited on a sterile Whatman No.1 filter paper impregnated with 1% tetrazolium chloride.
She regarded him as a somewhat crazy and delusional man, no matter how good he looked.
I still date chicks who are lucky to own a bedframe. 15 Annoying Things Most Girlfriends Do (That You Have to Put Up With) | Manolith
The process of inspiration is active and requires energy for muscle contraction.
Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
The softer rock has been weathered away into soil.
In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
The sun was shining, the food at the restaurant was good and I was left with a warm glow in my tummy afterwards.
Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
He has received several teaching awards, as well as the unprecedented award of being ‘the most quotable professor’ by MathSoc.
Contrary to what has been claimed, the theory is not insulated against attempts to disconfirm it.
That proviso is a thoughtful message for young moviegoers. Disney's 'Princess and the Frog' is royally charming
With no warning signs on either side and under poor lighting, the road is a death trap for motorists.
IS is said to have used chlorine gas in attacks and built up a substantial chemical weapons cache. The Sun
Some hospital patients experience high levels of anxiety.
The RAM has a first location for storing the data signal and a second location for storing the initialization status indicator.
The authors concluded that creativity and psychotic symptomatology do indeed reflect equivalent forms of cognitive processing.
That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
The rest of them continued filling plates while Reggie and Lettie returned at brisk intervals to reload their trays. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
There were gobs of fat and sinewy bits throughout the whole rib cut - it was soooo wrong.
Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
Venuti advocates that translators create a discursive heterogeneity by using non-dominant English forms to make the foreignness of the source texts felt and render the translations visible.
We must remember that the prime motive for Housmann's boulevards and circuses was to ensure that a strategically placed cannon could fire down many streets, quelling the citizens who were periodically disposed to revolution.
I mean they ought to be able to reflect on possible alternative views, and some do.
Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
He will remain affiliated with the firm as a special associate director.
At this point, I can't think of a job I'd like more than a writing gig.
The blow came at a meeting on Saturday.
He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
Update: BB commenter DHC says, It's worth noting that his is an outtake from a TV show that Warhol developed and aired on Manhattan cable. Boing Boing
The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
Success is neither a gift nor a blessing. Success is what you deserve. You work for and earn your success. Dr T.P.Chia
The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
That these are things as silently present and inarguable as iron, or night. Times, Sunday Times
It avoids a phony moral high ground or fake appeals to the sanctity of multilateralism. Globe and Mail
For high-definition video, the umi needs an Internet connection that can send, or upload, data at 1.5 megabits per second, higher than that of typical DSL or cable services. Cisco Launches 'Umi' Telepresence Box To Turn TVs Into Videophones
The contacts for the USB connector are even gold-plated to ensure better conductivity, according to Razer.
The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.

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