Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too powerful for the technicians at the local radio station . |
| 2 | and Jeremy Woolf for the taxpayers at the first hearing . |
| 3 | Jeremy Woolf and Clive Sheldon for the taxpayers at the second hearing . |
| 4 | The 16-year-olds could play for the juniors at the same time as their fathers turn out for the club 's over-35s team in a national competition . |
| 5 | The 1980 elections failed to secure democratically chosen representatives for the students at the local level in Changsha as elsewhere . |
| 6 | Personally , I am sorry for the upsets at the third Test in Manchester , but many of our players are very young and keen . |
| 7 | Local Alliance councillor Jim Rooney is to call for council support for the residents at the next full meeting of the borough council later this month . |
| 8 | The meeting established a broad framework for the negotiations at the parallel intergovernmental conferences on political union and on economic and monetary union , which the Council formally opened in Rome on Dec. 15 . |
| 9 | He advised the ladies to walk towards the town and wait for the men at the first hotel . |
| 10 | She always felt sorry for the children at the Ragged School and there seemed to be hundreds and hundreds of them . |
| 11 | A fierce reaction followed , which resulted in the downfall of the Whig ministry , and a massive victory for the Tories at the subsequent general election . |
| 12 | She looked across the stream , through the leaves at the distant field ; at the nettles and the meadow-sweet and the wild roses ; down at the camomile daisies crushed under her feet . |
| 13 | Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock , Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago . |
| 14 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 15 | The phone call finished , Jack Stone buttoned up his heavy jacket and stood in the darkened box , for a moment , peering through the windows at the desolate streets around him . |
| 16 | Through the doors at the far end , Nuadu caught the whirring sound of the Looms . |
| 17 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 18 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 19 | The only problem was the stitch each side of the tucked stitch came off the needles at the same time . |
| 20 | There was scarcely any unsavoury incident and certainly nothing on the scale of the problems at the same venue four years before when the American wives were hissed and cheers greeted almost all of their husbands unsuccessful shots . |
| 21 | The Rt Rev Gordon Bates was responding to an invitation from Rev Jeff Hatton , chairman of the governors at the 900-pupil Eston Park School in Burns Road , Eston . |
| 22 | The theme for this seminar arose directly out of the discussions at the previous meeting on Integration and Immigration . |
| 23 | A spokeswoman for North West Water said the incinerator was only part of the functions at the proposed sludge treatment plant . |
| 24 | It seems evident from the widespread popularity of the enactment of the hunt that simple timber arenas were provided in all large and probably even in small settlements , for they were part of the activities at the seasonal festivals . |
| 25 | Adrian Quist , twice Wimbledon doubles champion and three times winner of the singles at the Australian Open , has died at his home in Sydney from cancer , aged 78 . |
| 26 | In addition my Consumer Education Unit are targeting tomorrow 's consumers with their ‘ Green Detective ’ project which features as one of the initiatives at the Environmental Exploratorium being hosted at Drummond High School during the festival . |
| 27 | While I fully appreciate the concerns of the objectors at the recent public inquiry . |
| 28 | ‘ She thinks it 's one of the lifeguards at the municipal pool , ’ his mum said , and she must have sniggered because his nan came back at her very sharp . |
| 29 | Another thought struck her , as she showered and peered blearily out of the windows at the translucent blue and gold morning on the horizon . |
| 30 | Cheerful , and unaware of the failures at the southern lock , he urged on young Watson , who steeled himself for another attempt at breaking through the place . |