Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three committee members drove from Geneva to be present and in all some 17 Members and Friends of the Swiss Branch gathered at Sussexdown in the late morning of 1 August . |
| 2 | In I Peter 2 , the writer looks at Jesus from the viewpoint of suffering Christians and says : ‘ Yes , I know all that you are enduring … look at Jesus … follow him . ’ |
| 3 | The second-year economic history course looks at changes in the world economy between 1750 and 1914 while the second-year social history course studies world urbanisation from antiquity to the present day . |
| 4 | This Update looks at aspects of the new beginning , from an individual view of the validation process to an account of how new national units are developed . |
| 5 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 6 | In response to the call , an aproned figure peered at Harry from the kitchen , then bustled towards him , wiping her hands in a towel as she came . |
| 7 | There are gods , but they too are only material combinations of atoms , and our own consciousness ceases at death on the disintegration of our material bodies . |
| 8 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 9 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 10 | The case at Water Newton is rather less certain , but it has been argued that either one of the two large buildings visible at the centre of the defended area served as an administrative centre for the Fens , or that this function was performed by the remarkable complex identified at Castor to the north-east of the town 's extramural suburbs . |
| 11 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 12 | In all , some 368 coaches were converted for use as ambulance trains at Wolverton through the war . |
| 13 | Such was the enthusiasm generated by the initial successes with the organochlorine insecticides like DDT , BHC and dieldrin that most of the malarious nations of the world , excepting those in tropical Africa , gladly joined in the eradication programme that the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) began in the late 1950s ; a programme aimed at eradication of the disease rather than the mosquitoes that carried it . |
| 14 | The arguments in favour of the provision of an outer bypass for Edinburgh , designed to a high standard , are so overwhelming that Lothian Regional Council is maintaining a continuing construction programme aimed at completion of the entire bypass by 1990 . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the stock stood at 298p as the annual report and accounts were sent to investors . |
| 16 | The injury whilst en ventre sa mère was but an evidentiary incident in the causation of damage suffered at birth by the fault of the defendant . |
| 17 | The injury whilst en ventre sa mère was but an evidentiary incident in the causation of damage suffered at birth by the fault of the defendant . |
| 18 | The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly influenced by the theology taught at Paris by the end of the twelfth century , he maintained that unchaste behaviour by the priest did not invalidate his orders . |
| 20 | Further work looks at links between the pattern of business development and family and community structure among Afro-Caribbeans and Cypriots in North London and Pakistanis in Birmingham . |
| 21 | There was an engine shed at Wolverton from the earliest days . |
| 22 | What was a young , unmarried girl doing at night on the Prince 's dayabeeyah , we wonder ? |
| 23 | Tickets for the event , to be held at the George Hotel , Piercebridge , cost £10 , which includes a knife-and-fork buffet lunch served at noon in the Pavilion with a glass of wine followed by coffee . |
| 24 | S. O. Letterman 's office sends me the announcement made at Cannes of the imminent Franco-American production of the moving story of Claude Cohn-Casson , to be called Masai Dreaming . |
| 25 | Donna Haber , from ASTMS who is also a member of an OECD expert group looking at safety in the biotechnology industry , says that the key to safety in biotechnology is planning in advance . |
| 26 | Designed by a German scientific team led by Rudolf Gantenbrink , the robot climbed at 45° up the 65 metre long passageway to find a portcullis type slab at the other end with large copper handles . |
| 27 | Much the same picture emerges at Dragonby throughout the Roman period . |
| 28 | Here the M family continued the socialising process begun at home with the children by Mrs W and a family friend after their father was imprisoned . |
| 29 | Cove lost at home for the first time in 13 games , going down 3–1 to Epsom & Ewell . |
| 30 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |