Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOPE grower Ronald Jenkins was fined yesterday for cultivating cannabis at the age of 71 . |
| 2 | Availability is the percentage of time for which the plant is mechanically capable of producing full rated output of electricity , whether or not such output was called for to meet demand at the time . |
| 3 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 4 | Welcomed by women of almost all ages as comfortable and a declaration of female sexuality , the short skirt suit with power dressing shoulder-padded jacket was simply the best for oozing confidence at the office . |
| 5 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 6 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 7 | Her intervention — after dismissing reports at the weekend that she would be standing for the deputy leadership — will be seen as an attempt to block Mr Gould 's bid for the post . |
| 8 | She was last seen alive on Tuesday evening after calling time at the pub she managed for Warrington-based Walker 's Brewery , |
| 9 | Bingo player Bob Gladstone is hoping to start his own business after scooping £3,279 at the game . |
| 10 | Mr Brown was arrested by Saudi religious police two weeks after beginning work at the hospital in February . |
| 11 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 12 | One 18-year-old youth appeared in court after throwing glasses at a publican 's head , while in another pub case that ended in court a landlord had refused to serve Bank Holiday revellers whereupon they ‘ knocked him down , and kicked him in the eye and about the body ’ . |
| 13 | WILD rockers Skid Row were banned from a club in Peterborough , Canada , after throwing condoms at the crowd . |
| 14 | It was 5 a.m. when I hit the M1 after leaving Lee at the flat and dropping Max off at his pub , and was quite tired when I reached the cottage at around 7.30 this morning . |
| 15 | Two days after leaving Angel at the Foundling Hospital Sarah returned to work at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 16 | I was sightseeing after leaving Cobalt at the café . |
| 17 | In such models the problematic taxa are further and separate derivatives , useful for documenting the range of metazoan morphospace but irrelevant for establishing relationships at the base of metazoan evolution . |
| 18 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 19 | — For valuing stocks at the end of the accounting period . |
| 20 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |
| 21 | There is widespread suspicion that the two firms , along with the rest of the nuclear industry , were appalled by the revelations about operating methods at the power station that had already been given in testimony . |
| 22 | Why did n't we do the foul deed there , rather than risk facing a rugby team of accusing fingers at the inquest ? |
| 23 | Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year . |
| 24 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 25 | When accused of promoting sales at a time when they were incapable of supplying the electricity , the Board chairmen were robustly defensive . |
| 26 | The lover 's eventual notion of seeking death at the hand of his lady ( movement 9 : E minor ) is dispelled by a few bars for ‘ Violons ’ and continuo , reminiscent of the quiet opening movements , but in a slower tempo . |
| 27 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 28 | Kendall , who confirmed that Sunderland had made an inquiry for Tony Cottee , was delighted that his side 's performance spared Everton the potential embarrassment of replacing Forest at the foot of the Premier League table . |
| 29 | Plants , real or plastic , if used , should be planted towards the back of the aquascape , leaving plenty of swimming space at the front for the more active fish . |
| 30 | While the actual form of SATs is liable to change , the process of testing pupils at the age of 11 is unlikely to do so . |