Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second looks at the influence of " reference groups " ( section 1.4 below ) . |
| 2 | Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced . |
| 3 | The Fitzallan 's played leading parts in Scottish life over several generations : the third Steward , Alan 's son , was appointed Justiciary for Scotland by King Alexander II ; the fourth fought at the Battle of Largs and was a Crusader ; and the fifth was appointed a Guardian of Scotland during the troubled times before the rise of William Wallace . |
| 4 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 5 | The chapter will first look at the features of the system that correspond to this model , and at the institutions that are reputedly responsible for the policy-making process . |
| 6 | National park officer , Alan Jones , said the memorial fund will be used to maintain Cader Idris , the mountain which Dr Hughes first climbed at the age of four . |
| 7 | To understand it , we need first to look at the development of Nietzsche 's inner life : the particular temperament and range of interests without which the controversial book would never have been written at all . |
| 8 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
| 9 | The uniqueness of these localised vines was first recognised at the beginning of the century by Eugène-Aimé Salon , the founder of Champagne Salon ; more recently , in the early 1970s , the house of Krug purchased the entire single-site , wall-enclosed vineyard of ‘ Clos du Mesnil ’ , which is situated inside the village itself . |
| 10 | On the night of 30 January they were not to reach this sought-after retreat without problems , for they had first to call at the Palace of Saint Cloud itself where on arrival they found the entire Imperial Household drawn up to receive them and , equally clearly , determined to stay to dinner . |
| 11 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 12 | By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April . |
| 13 | It is true that on first arriving at the scene of the crime the detective may have no pre-conceived ideas . |
| 14 | Stamped iron depositum plates , tin-dipped and designed in the form of a concave oval cartouche encircled by a garland of flowers , first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century ; so did grip-plates , which were similarly oval with a repoussé design of winged cherubs ' heads . |
| 15 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 16 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 17 | It can be read millions of times over , but only written to once — when it is first assembled at the birth of the cell in which it resides . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land , … not being itself partnership property , are partners as to profits made by the use of that land or estate , and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in like manner , the land or estate so purchased belongs to them , in the absence of an agreement to the contrary , not as partners but as co-owners for the same respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate first mentioned at the date of the purchase . |
| 19 | The amendments , first endorsed at the meeting of Lebanese National Assembly deputies in Taif , Saudi Arabia , in October 1989 [ see p. 36986 for details of political provisions of Taif Accord ] , had again been endorsed on Aug. 21 when 51 deputies convened in Beirut . |
| 20 | Detached pigment and small but generalised lowering of colours are two problems which the restoration team headed by Maria Grazia Bernardini and Sara Staccioli have identified in the ‘ Sacred and Profane Love ’ , which was probably last relined at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | She had been last noticed at the wheel of the car when the Josephs arrived there . |
| 22 | A final decision , to ban or not to ban , will be taken by all 63 members of the county authority when the council next meets at the end of next month . |
| 23 | However , as you probably know , the Earnings Rule was at long last abolished at the start of October 1989 . |
| 24 | We could next look at the numbers of designers who have left the company over the previous 12 months by reasons for leaving ( figure 10 ) . |
| 25 | Pete Miles barged through for the third try at the start of the second half … |