Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office has been given a seat at the Natural Environment Research Council , which funds the BAS . |
| 2 | Mr Williams recently received the Lympus prize in his FRCO exams and has just been offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music to study organ performance . |
| 3 | A startling illustration of another educator 's naive understanding of the work of drama teachers occurs in a recent publication by David Hargreaves ( 1982 ) who recommends that the arts and drama in particular should be given a place at the centre of the curriculum . |
| 4 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |
| 5 | In theory , any matter which is relevant to whether the applicant should be awarded a remedy at the hearing stage is also relevant to the decision at the hearing stage of whether the application should be allowed to proceed ; in other words , leave to apply for judicial review can be refused on any ground on which a remedy could be refused at the hearing stage . |
| 6 | But the incident has drawn attention to the fact that since the collapse of the Soviet Union , Europe with Britain as America 's main ally can no longer expect to be guaranteed a place at the centre of United States foreign policy . |
| 7 | ‘ Any way that it would go , Lennox would be guaranteed a shot at the title . ’ |
| 8 | She is a member of Canzonetta — a newly formed chamber choir directed by David Victor-Smith and has been awarded a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in September . |
| 9 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 10 | ‘ William 's dug a hole at the bottom of the garden . |
| 11 | On returning she is guaranteed a job at the same level and of similar content to the one she left , but ‘ the plan is that nearer the time I start to discuss my return with management and personnel ’ . |
| 12 | Staff are paid a salary at the rate equivalent to that of a unionised factory worker — in practice that is approximately equivalent to that of a High School teacher . |
| 13 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 14 | Instead of working from home or at the DEA office , Coleman was given a desk at the Eurame Trading Company Ltd. , a DEA/CIA ‘ front ’ newly set up by the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad in a luxury three-bedroomed penthouse apartment down the street from the US Embassy . |
| 15 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
| 16 | On his retirement on 8 April 1874 , Phillips was granted a pension at the rate of his full salary of £750 , for his ‘ peculiar and exceptional services ’ . |
| 17 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 18 | At the National Eisteddfod held in the Albert Hall in 1909 he was again awarded the chair for an outstanding awdl ( ode ) on ‘ Gwlad y Bryniau ’ ( The Land of the Hills ) , and soon after his return home he was appointed a cataloguer at the newly founded National Library of Wales . |
| 19 | In September 1858 he patented a process for preparing chlorine using calcium chromate , for which he was awarded a medal at the 1862 international exhibition . |
| 20 | He was admitted a student at the Middle Temple on 19 February 1597 and was called to the bar on 19 April 1605 . |
| 21 | His elder son was created a baronet at the Restoration in 1660 , and the younger entered Parliament for Bletchingley as an exclusionist . |