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Discover LudwigThe phrase "at a scheme" is not commonly used in written English and may not be correct depending on the context.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing participation or involvement in a specific plan or project, but it is not standard.
Example: "The committee met to discuss the progress at a scheme designed to improve local infrastructure."
Alternatives: "in a plan" or "in a project".
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Taxi drivers held a one-day national strike to protest at a scheme to increase the number of licences.
Which?, the consumer organisation, said it was right that the government stopped throwing money at a scheme that had not taken off.
These would include income and property taxes.It is difficult to understand why either state would want to continue throwing money at a scheme that benefits only the companies that move.
Now, however, a study that compares classes with computers against similar classes without them casts doubt on that view.In the current Economic Journal, Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Victor Lavy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem look at a scheme which put computers into many of Israel's primary and middle schools in the mid-1990s.
Even allowing for changes in the method of recording, crime seems to be rising after falling for five years in succession.In his search for ways to cut the crime rate, Mr Straw could do worse than look at a scheme in Brighton which has had remarkable success in preventing drug addicts from reoffending.
While many legal aid lawyers have reached a state of battle-weariness after years of subsequent governments chipping away at a scheme that was set up in 1949 to provide advice and representation in court to those who cannot afford to hire a lawyer, Mackintosh remains as up for the fray as ever.
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A bribery scandal at Tyson Foods — a scheme that Tyson itself admitted — resulted in charges against the company earlier this year.
In March details emerged of a patent filed by Shumeet Baluja, a researcher at Google, for a scheme to build psychological profiles of individual gamers.
And Macedonians themselves are at odds over a scheme that many say not only smacks of megalomania but has turned Skopje into a mini Las Vegas.
Nathalie Gordon is head of programme delivery at the ICS, a scheme for young people who want to do voluntary development work abroad.
In its complaint, the S.E.C. asserted that senior managers at Xerox orchestrated a scheme to inflate the company's operating performance.
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