Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Methodist leaders sought the meeting with Mrs Thatcher after a resolution passed at the Methodist Conference in June last year , which declared outrage at the divisive effects of government policy . |
| 2 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
| 3 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 4 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 5 | We have just received our first order from the Ukraine as a result of a contact made at the Expozoo exhibition in Paris . |
| 6 | However any small boat owner will appreciate not only the need for recording navigational information but also the pleasure to be gained after the event in recalling the events of a passage or cruise through the pages of a log kept at the time . |
| 7 | All these poignant images and many more were presented during the course of a colloquium held at the Fondation Marcel Mérieux near Annecy , France , last weekend . |
| 8 | The threat was made in the form of a statement issued at the annual conference in Rabaul , on Oct. 23 , attended by the premiers of Manus , New Ireland , and East and West New Britain , and community leaders from Bougainville . |
| 9 | ABJECTION , Melancholia and Love is , with three additions , the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Warwick in 1957 on the works of Julia Kristeva . |
| 10 | THE Capenhurst decommissioning team has been awarded a plaque in recognition of a paper presented at the Oak Ridge Conference in the United States . |
| 11 | The document was the result of a process begun at the party 's 1987 annual conference ; final drafts of the review , then called Meet the Challenge , Make the Change , had been released in May 1989 [ see p. 36667 ] . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) If on an allotted day on which any proceedings on the Bill are to be brought to a conclusion at a time appointed by this Order the House is adjourned , or the sitting is suspended , before that time no notice shall be required of a Motion made at the next sitting by a member of the Government for varying or supplementing the provisions of this Order . |
| 13 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 14 | With heavy fighting continuing despite a ceasefire agreed at the end of November , the deputy C.-in-C. of Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) armed forces , Col.-Gen . |
| 15 | In the burning pages , he imagined his electro-acoustic instruments sparking and self-destructing like a spaceship set at the end of a low-budget science fiction film . |
| 16 | If so , and since any rise in factor prices above alternative use values or any rise in price above marginal cost causes a potential deadweight loss , the most obvious solution is for a price fixed at the level of marginal cost . |
| 17 | His show ‘ A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes ’ transferred for a sell-out run at the Palace Theatre and then went on to play to capacity crowds at the Duke of York 's Theatre in the West End . |
| 18 | Through it , in the ghostly light from the street lamp , she distinguished the tangled duvet , her dressing gown slung over an ebonised chair and a French Empire mirror with a sphinx carved at the apex , of which she was particularly proud . |
| 19 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 20 | The Manchester study is linked with a study based at the Social Science Research Unit in London which considers the social support needs of a group of socially disadvantaged women and children . |
| 21 | The holder may supply liquor to persons taking table meals on the premises , to residents or private friends of residents being bona fide entertained by them , to the private friends for their own or the resident 's consumption , and to a resident for his own or a private friend 's consumption with a meal supplied at the premises but to be consumed off them . |
| 22 | The former is a groove or cavity which articulates with a convex process of the clypeus and the condyle is a rounded head adapted to fit into a socket placed at the lower end of the gena or postgena . |
| 23 | This is an effective scooping block that curls under a kick aimed at the mid-section of the body and throws it to the side . |
| 24 | The rate support grant was replaced by a block grant to be calculated separately for each authority , so a council which displeases the government , by failing to keep local expenditure within a limit determined at the centre , can be penalized by a reduction in grant . |
| 25 | To scholars of contemporary art , this material will be known from exhibitions at Paula Cooper in New York and from a survey shown at the Jeu de Paume , Paris , and at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid , in 1991–92 , but his work has never been shown in such depth in London . |
| 26 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 27 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 28 | A radio-cassette player worth £130 and four tapes were stolen from a car parked at the Helme Park Hall Hotel , Fir Tree , on Saturday night . |
| 29 | He stretched to ease his limbs from a morning spent at the desk . |
| 30 | Curved steps are set out using a stringline or batten from a peg set at the centre point . |