Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun prp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I felt sorry for Alfred at the time — I still do . |
2 | Point taken , and I really feel sorry for Rocky at the moment , and hope he does n't leave , but I think with a player like Strachan at the club , who I believe is one of the best players in the Premier League at the moment , I think it would be foolish to leave him out . |
3 | The Lancashire side recorded their 11th successive home win , and were seven points clear of Ipswich at the top , when they beat Newcastle United in February . |
4 | Now the fast expanding range of Yamaha software , clothing and accessories can be purchased either direct from Yamaha-Kemble at the address on the back page , or from your local Yamaha Dealer . |
5 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
6 | Unlike Chinese porcelain , very popular in Europe at the time , the french porcelain was made from a previously fired glassy mixture , rather than from feldspar and kaolin . |
7 | The libretto , by Gottlieb Stephanie , was on a Turkish subject , highly popular in Vienna at the time : the war with Turkey meant that ‘ Turkish ’ customs and themes were very much on everyone 's minds . |
8 | Moreover recent events at Sellafield indicate that that enforcement apparatus is more likely to be used against environmentally-conscious groups such as Greenpeace at the behest of public bodies like BNFL which are responsible for inflicting the damage on the environment in the first place . |
9 | Lucius Cornelius Scipio , brother of Publius Scipio Africanus who was famed for his victory over Hannibal in Africa , defeated Antiochus III of Syria at the Battle of Magnesia in western Asia Minor in 189 BC . |
10 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
11 | And she was bored with Nick at the moment . |
12 | Charles Ross ( Sandy ) Somerville , the oldest surviving member of the Canadian national cricket team died in May 1991 in Ontario at the age of 88 . |
13 | possible evidence for this view can be seen in the only surviving thirteenth-century picture of a Western water-clock , which seems to have been used about 1250 in Paris at the court of Louis IX . |
14 | However , this does not matter much , since the book has to be printed and that is not so simple in Russia at the moment . |
15 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
16 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
17 | I believe some of the things we have to share with the Europeans and learn from them are very urgent in Britain at the moment . |
18 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
19 | John of Copeland , a Northumbrian knight of modest means who was fortunate enough to capture David II of Scotland at the battle of Neville 's Cross in 1346 , was rewarded by the king with an annuity of £500 . |
20 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
21 | She has been rebuilding her confidence after her Barcelona setback — and after breaking the European , Commonwealth and UK all-comers ' 2,000 metres record in 5min 40.90sec at the TSB International in Birmingham at the weekend , the Musselburgh runner says she will consider running the 3,000m in Toronto . |
22 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
23 | The User Alliance for Open Systems is set to meet May 11–14 in Dallas at the InfoMart : it is anxious to push its agenda for interoperability , transportable data and applications and an IT environment that supports business objectives . |
24 | The best thing that happened to him was when he married in Australia at the age of 21 . |
25 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
26 | He was married to Sonia at the time . ’ |
27 | The pattern of industrial organization prevailing in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century made it inevitable that Britain 's pioneer filmmakers would quickly find themselves crowded off the world 's screens . |
28 | As the Minister responsible for AEA at the Department of Trade and Industry , his perceptions of us are critical to our future . |
29 | I must leave him alone with Enid at the gate . |
30 | The prices seemed more or less the same as those in London at the time I 'd left — a box of matches or a bar of Cadbury 's chocolate cost a penny . |