Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] at the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Award was presented by the Duchess of York at the 11th ABSA Awards ceremony in London . |
| 3 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 4 | In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women . |
| 5 | His anger was fully under control , but his pride in his own craftsmanship was disturbed beyond recovery , and though he was on the front row again in Holland at the next race , I know that by Monza he realized he had been defeated by forces beyond his control . |
| 6 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 7 | The band , tipped to win an award for their video Friday I 'm In Love , were forced to cancel a planned satellite link-up from London to LA at the last minute . |
| 8 | The Premier cancelled a trip to Spain at the last minute as the sick pound hit its lowest level since joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 9 | But he cancelled his trip to England at the last minute and pretended he thought I was going to see you in your show and might as well hand you the invitation at the same time . ’ |
| 10 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 11 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 12 | I gave the list to Martin at the last meeting . |
| 13 | COPIOUS helpings of greens were available but Nescafe was off the menu on Wednesday at the first Caroline Walker awards ceremony , in memory of the campaigning nutritionist who died aged 38 last year . |
| 14 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 15 | Mr Larkin says his suffering is worse for knowing that Gary had only agreed to go to Chorley at the last minute after two people , a man and a woman , had spoken separately to him on the phone . |
| 16 | The children would be taken straight off Everest at the first sign of any altitude sickness or ill effects , Ms Hargreaves stressed . |
| 17 | A new military doctrine , ‘ reasonable sufficiency ’ , was adopted by Gorbachev at the 27th Party Congress and subsequently by the Warsaw Treaty Organisation . |
| 18 | the ‘ Holy Grail ’ , the cup or chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper , which is the subject of many medieval legends and romances . |