Example sentences of "[conj] in [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DWARF bulbs are the jewels of the spring garden , whether they are in the rock garden , or in groups at the edge of beds and borders . |
| 2 | This is not to say that removal of the clitoris was a routine operation either in the States or in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Leonora also did the cooking when the two of them were at home , but Elise was often out dining with someone , or in Stratford at the theatre with someone else . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 5 | It is unusual to find a large deposit containing pottery the whole of which can be grouped into a narrow date bracket , and the most obvious examples on occupation sites are caused by the destruction of a building which has pottery in it , in store or in use at the time . |
| 6 | It was calculated that in Prussia at the end of the century 1,700,000 men in a total population of 8,700,000 were completely exempt from military service ( 1,170,000 because of privileges possessed by most of the Prussian towns , 530,000 because of their social status or occupation ) . |
| 7 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 8 | There is also the possibility of making many more measurements in such a laboratory than in experiments at the poles or in caves . |
| 9 | How is it that the United States ' ( and British ) military machine — more American troops and weapons than in Europe at the height of the cold war — is pounding away , day after day , at a low-tech Third World enemy ? |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ said Gerald Seymour-Strachey , spreading his hands wide as if in despair at the fickleness of public taste . |
| 11 | A friend of mine , who was unemployed and in debt at the time , decided that he wished to attend a certain workshop in Hawaii . |
| 12 | That is in contrast with a current vogue internationally , and in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay in particular , for sociologically oriented exhibitions , where the works of art are used principally as documents . |
| 13 | He had been taught drawing at Eton by ‘ Sammy ’ and Sidney Evans , of the long-established dynasty of drawing masters , and in Oxford at the Ruskin School and by the Slade professor ( Sir ) Charles Holmes [ q.v. ] , but he was over forty before his individual style was formed . |
| 14 | London-based Old Master drawings dealer Annamaria Edelstein is holding an exhibition in New York at the Beadleston Gallery , 60 East 91st Street , from 11 to 15 January and in Chicago at the Roger Ramsay Gallery , 325 West Huron , Suite 207 from 18 to 21 January . |
| 15 | And in barns at the back of yards watered by stagnant ponds , the lights burn into the night , and the driving engines clatter like African drums . |
| 16 | He later trained in the social sciences at Leipzig University , and in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science , which he entered in 1910 . |
| 17 | The slaves themselves intervened dramatically by rising in revolt in Demerara in 1823 and in Jamaica at the end of 1831 and the beginning of 1832 . |
| 18 | And in November at the council he let see how much trust he was ever again likely to put in the little law-givers at Westminster . |
| 19 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 20 | And in fact at the greenbelt plan inquiry er er I I spent a considerable amount of time arguing on the issue of prestige sites and the availability of prestige sites within the greater York area already planned and available . |
| 21 | And in fact at the end of the expedition ski poles which had been left at the bottom of the climb had vanished . |
| 22 | SEFIC examinations and LCCIEB workshops were held at CADI ( Buenos Aires and several other branches ) and in Montevideo at the Oxbridge Institute , the Dickens Institute and the Instituto-Cultural Anglo-Uruguay . |
| 23 | In Scotland , the universities had always had strong scientific and philosophical traditions ; but in England at the beginning of the century neither of the two universities was a centre of scientific research . |
| 24 | After 1789 politicians were the main architects of French nationalism , but in Russia at the start of NEP Marxist internationalism and Trotsky 's theory of permanent revolution still imbued most leading Bolsheviks , with the significant exception of Stalin , whose treatment of Georgia in 1922 was to shock Lenin . |
| 25 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 26 | The introduction of the profit notion through khozraschet looked promising on paper , but in reality at the start of 1922 there was no definition , even in the highest economic organs , of what was meant by ‘ profit ’ . |
| 27 | Many calculated their wages not in the national currency , the dinar , but in deutschemarks at the rate of between 400 and 600 marks a month , three times the present average . |
| 28 | 10.1 The Premises shall be demised subject to all ( if any ) Restrictions affecting the Premises ( whether in existence at the date of this agreement or arising at any later date ) |
| 29 | Some onboard klaxon wailed as though in pain at the effort . |
| 30 | ‘ It was incredible , it was like a bomb going off , ’ was how Pat described the opening ; just as in England at the beginning , there were days when customers had to be locked out and long queues formed . |