Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ariel " Arik " Sharon , the Israeli Cabinet 's leading " hawk " , resigned unexpectedly on Feb. 12 in protest at the government 's Palestinian policy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Etienne Goyemido resigned as Minister of Primary , Secondary and Technical Education and of Youth and Sports on May 2 in protest at the dismissal of four teachers and a watchman . |
| 6 | The Palestinians , however , did not finally agree to attend until late on Dec. 2 in protest at the US refusal to allow Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) members to enter Washington to serve as advisers . |
| 7 | The EC Commissioner for the Environment , Carlo Ripa di Meana , refused to attend UNCED in protest at the Community 's failure to agree a joint policy programme on the key summit issues and especially a carbon tax [ see p. 38943 for his resignation on becoming Italian Environment Minister ] . |
| 8 | Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip from March 19-22 in protest at the killing of two Israelis in Jaffa on March 17 [ see this page ] . |
| 9 | Long gone are those piles of suffocating heavy blankets needed to keep warm in bed at the height of winter coldness and the arduous task of bedmaking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , this does not matter much , since the book has to be printed and that is not so simple in Russia at the moment . |
| 14 | He delighted in the young and was assiduous in attendance at the Oxford Union , where he was senior librarian . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You will be paid monthly in arrears at the rate of per annum . |
| 17 | At least seven Palermo magistrates announced their resignations on July 21 in protest at the state 's inability to protect members of the judiciary . |
| 18 | The conical mounds , initially smooth in appearance at the apex , become rough in appearance as the epidermal cells enlarge and separate along the lateral walls , yielding club shaped cells . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Their daughter Helen , 8 , who was ill in bed at the time , also heard nothing . |
| 21 | Anyway Mike is ill in hospital at the moment and unlikely to play chess for a bit . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We feel awkward in uniform at the moment and a bit self-conscious . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Gen. O. P. Malhotra resigned as Governor of Punjab on Aug. 5 in protest at the government 's last minute postponement of elections in the state in mid-June [ see p. 38286 ; see p. 37915 for Malhotra 's appointment in December 1990 ] . |
| 26 | Böhme , a 45-year-old historian , joined the former SED at the age of 17 but left it in 1976 in protest at the persecution of intellectuals . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Such deals have been made illegal in protest at the Noriega regime . |
| 29 | The best thing that happened to him was when he married in Australia at the age of 21 . |
| 30 | Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger . |