Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 2 | From his study of Lawrence at that time , Paul Delany concludes that the writer had ‘ strong homosexual impulses which he felt morally bound to repress ’ ( Nightmare , 50 ) . |
| 3 | Fujitsu floats 25% of ICL at 225 pence a share . |
| 4 | Each Club has its special character — from the lively fun of Cala Mesquida to the style and luxury of Maravilla at Ten Bel . |
| 5 | Shortly after Stephen 's death , Paul ( still Saul of Tarsus at this point ) , prompted by a sadistic fanatical fervour , embarks for Damascus , in Syria , to ferret out Nazareans there . |
| 6 | Further verbal pictures of Wordsworth at this period may be found in Thomas De Quincey 's Recollections ; but 1805 may be considered as the end of his youth . |
| 7 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 8 | We know a fair amount about what was happening on the east coast of Scotland at that date , but not nearly so much about the west . |
| 9 | Among the courses I took were Old English , Middle English , Old Norse , English Philology , and Phonetics ( this last course was taught by and , who were among the senior teachers in the Phonetics Department of U.C.L. at that time ) . |
| 10 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 11 | Midfield player Mark Proctor is the only recognised first-team player in a Central League side against Burnley at Ayresome Park tonight . |
| 12 | On-loan Jon Gittens and Willie Falconer could form a new central defensive partnership against Barnsley at Ayresome Park tonight . |
| 13 | No matter how much you speed up the entry into London at some point in time you are going to have to create a jam . |
| 14 | The only way to delay signs of ageing , according to top skin specialists , is to use a moisturizer with SPF at all times , Neutrogena 's are reasonably priced at £8.65 for 125ml . |
| 15 | In this way , these researchers built up a picture of life styles in Chicago at that time , especially those of certain deviant groups such as hoboes and gang-members . |
| 16 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 17 | The fact that Lord Byron was probably the most famous poet in Europe at this time , even including Johann Schlitzberger , was not going to make things easier . |
| 18 | But so wide are the left 's woes — in the past few years , they have affected socialist parties from Britain at one end of Europe to Greece at the other — that it is worth considering the possibility that something else is at work , too : the body of ideas that socialists used to represent has lost so much electoral support that socialist parties , at least in their old guise , are doomed . |
| 19 | But on escaping from Wales to study music at Goldsmith 's College in London under the auspices of Aaron Copland , Cale decided that ‘ the best thing for a classical musician in London at that time was to get involved in avant-garde . |
| 20 | He had taken his sonnet to Rodge at Red Giant and turned it into an ode . |
| 21 | The first release , in beta since February at 20 sites , is immediately available . |
| 22 | And he has appointed Mr Gergen , a long-time Renaissance man who gave a fine speech on the fragmentation of America at this year 's Hilton Head weekend , to a key position . |
| 23 | Some working-class members of the Legions also held open air meetings in Hackney and other locations in the East End of London at irregular intervals . |
| 24 | The meeting decided that the missionaries should move to Upper Burma , for at that time we fully believed the government 's assurance that we should be able to hold part of Burma at any rate . |
| 25 | Diodorus ' narrative of Sicily at this time is in a way superior to that of Thucydides , who in his introduction to the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415–413 undertakes to explain his view that Athens was biting off more than she could chew . |
| 26 | MANCHESTER UNITED served notice on their rivals that they are on course for the Championship with a magnificent 5-0 slaughter of Coventry at Old Trafford yesterday . |
| 27 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 28 | Hardly less damaging for the Church was clerical incontinency , which sometimes led to the son succeeding the father in a benefice or parish , as reported in the diocese of Worcester at this time , " so dishonouring ecclesiastical dignity and the canon law " . |
| 29 | Instead mean temperatures in polar latitudes remained under 190K throughout March , low enough for the formation of PSCs at this level . |
| 30 | At 1735 he spotted about sixty to seventy Ju88s , Bf109s and other types to the south of Luqa at 10,000 feet . |