Example sentences of "[noun prp] at the turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an informal academy of painters and sculptors , attended by Michelangelo , in Florence at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 3 | The quickening of political life ‘ demonstrated the increasingly fluid state of Russia at the turn of the century ’ ( Kochan ) . |
| 4 | Neil has travelled 2,000 miles since he bought the Primera at the turn of the year . |
| 5 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 6 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 7 | This principle was recognised and sanctioned by the House of Lords at the turn of the century in the leading case of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [ 1897 ] AC 22 . |
| 8 | A collection of prints depicting Whitby at the turn of the century have been stolen by thieves . |
| 9 | At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn . |
| 10 | Imitators who marketed potassium permanganate as ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ ( and solutions of it as his fluid ) were the subject of litigation which reached its height in Australia at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | Or there 's Thornton 's Arcade ( above ) , one of several glass-roofed malls built by Edwardian theatre designer Frank Matcham at the turn of the century |
| 12 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 13 | Her record of her rural childhood and young adult life in Britain at the turn of the century is a fund of sociological insights and is far more fascinating to read , and incomparably better written , than practically any genuinely sociological work of the time . |
| 14 | Shops opened in Stockton at the turn of the century and in Redcar in 1924 but closed in the 1960's due to a fall in demand . |
| 15 | Among all these famous names there is one who knew them all , and who perhaps in his own way did as much as they to popularize , and incidentally to record , the Lake District at the turn of the century . |
| 16 | It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels . |
| 17 | This was Grahame 's Fowey at the turn of the century — just as it is the Fowey of today . |
| 18 | The head gardener at Chilton at the turn of the century , Charles Beckett , had a brother , Edwin , also a head gardener , and both men built exactly the same design of fruit house in their respective gardens . |
| 19 | Gournia ( Figure 18 ) was excavated by the pioneer Minoan archaeologist Harriet Boyd at the turn of the century and the entire plan of the town stands completely exposed . |
| 20 | During the wars with France at the turn of the nineteenth century , when the call came , more than 2,000 Highlanders volunteered for service with the colours . |
| 21 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 22 | It followed , therefore , that most of the military appointments to which Scottish freeholders and burgh councillors aspired were in the line infantry and to a lesser degree the cavalry , augmented during the wars with France at the turn of the century with numerous local military units of a temporary nature . |
| 23 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 24 | For example , in York at the turn of the century Rowntree found that the second most common cause of poverty after low wages was the ‘ death of the chief wage-earner ’ , accounting for 28 per cent of all poor households and 16 per cent of all poor persons ( Rowntree , 1902 , p. 120 ) . |
| 25 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 26 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 27 | Julian Mathias is the grandson of Robert Mathias , cousin and key lieutenant of Albert Mond who created the modern ICI at the turn of the century . |
| 28 | The path was built to serve an observatory that functioned at the top of the Ben at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | It tells the story of the rise of Charlie Trumper who is born in the East End at the turn of the century . |
| 30 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |