Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 2 | Hopefully all will be well for the teachers responsible for tea at the next meeting . |
| 3 | It was widespread among craft unions like the wool combers who were said to have become " one society throughout the kingdom … if any of their club is out of work they give them a ticket and money to seek for work at the next town where a box club is " . |
| 4 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 5 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 6 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 7 | This can be contrasted with the experience of the person who moved but where there is no clear change in his overall level of engagement at the next datapoint ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 8 | After the Lord Mayor 's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year . |
| 9 | The arbitrary division of Korea at the 38th parallel in 1945 was absurd economically , creating two areas which could not function efficiently in terms of what they possessed . |
| 10 | A man like Guy Sterne was n't likely to blurt out a confession of guilt at the first accusation , was he ? |
| 11 | Nos. 384 , 387 and 398 were taken out of service at the fifth stage of the conversion on 16 October 1951 and the rest survived until the sixth stage on 5 January 1952 , when they were scrapped at Penhall Road . |
| 12 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |
| 13 | We sincerely hope that Mr Taylor will stay with us and defeat the handful of critics at the next election . |
| 14 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 15 | CW reported on allocation of new machines and re-allocation of replacements , arising out of agreements at the last meeting . |
| 16 | The elemental functions of intersection are thus reflected up as internal functions of space at the next level , with the result that the required characteristics of the system are specified in more and more detail as the assembly is decomposed into its constituent elements ( see Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 17 | The neck itself is made from Canadian maple and feels fairly slim for a five — 45mm across the nut , with a depth of just 23mm and a width of 60mm at the twelfth fret . |
| 18 | Gorbachev and Kohl , after talks in Stavropol , reach agreement that a united Germany is free to join whichever bloc it wishes , allowing agreement on external aspects of unification at the third round of two-plus-four talks on July 17 in Paris , which were also attended by the Polish Foreign Minister [ p. 37659 ] . |
| 19 | By slowing gastric emptying , it increases the duration of gastric distention which explains the persistent impression of satiety at the sixth hour . |
| 20 | Or will he be brave enough to take a dose of poison at the last moment ? |
| 21 | The Award was presented by the Duchess of York at the 11th ABSA Awards ceremony in London . |
| 22 | He dwelt on the pondus sacerdotum : the burden of priests , and more particularly of bishops ( and especially of archbishops ) , was that they would be responsible for the souls of kings at the Last Judgement . |
| 23 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 24 | Barnett J. went on to hold that the district judge had mistakenly overlooked the reversal of the burden of proof at the second stage but that this had not vitiated his assessment of the material and arguments , nor his arrival at the correct conclusion that the prosecution had discharged the burden thus placed upon it . |
| 25 | The inadequate map suggested villages lay ahead so we stopped on a jut of land at the first hint of cultivation : another delectable bivvy site . |
| 26 | He bought a bottle of brandy at the first liquor store he found and he began to drink . |
| 27 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 28 | If no candidate receives an overall majority , the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes at the second ballot will be placed on a ballot paper for a third and final ballot on the Thursday following . |
| 29 | The electorate is able to choose a candidate , a party , a programme , and a government ; the electorate knows roughly what the government will do once in office ; and so the electorate knows who to blame and which party to vote out of office at the next election . |
| 30 | After several weeks of deadlock at the ninth round of the peace talks , the government and the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) signed Protocol Number 3 on March 12 [ for earlier protocols see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ] . |