Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one glance at the cascading wisteria blossom — never mind the rest of the promising , if overgrown , London garden — and Spanish translator Patricia Grillo was hooked . |
| 2 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 3 | A quick glance at the seven-layer decision-making ladder of the OSI , makes plain the potential for querulous technical in-fighting over a near-interminable period . |
| 4 | Cranston stared in disappointment at the grey ragstone tomb . |
| 5 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 6 | There was initial optimism that there had been a breakthrough in relations between Syria and Israel , but by Aug. 27 , Palestinian negotiators were expressing disappointment at the detailed autonomy proposals presented by the new Labour government . |
| 7 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 8 | JAMES Linington , aged seven , Peter Rogers , aged six , and his brother , Alex , aged four , were having fun on the side at the refurbished play area at the Stratton Bates recreation ground in Grange Road , Alresford when it was opened officially by chairman of the parish council , Roy Downham , on Saturday morning . |
| 9 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 10 | They both looked thoughtful , heads side by side at the open oven door , while I wondered what the chances were of both heads fitting — and jamming — inside and the door safety-catch somehow short-circuiting . |
| 11 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 12 | The possibility of a Conservative defeat at the next election promotion investors to unload shares . |
| 13 | He is now pursuing his clinical and research interests in diabetes and metabolism at the Clinical Research Centre , Harrow . |
| 14 | Initially it was planned to have two mid-mounted eight-cylinder 1,000 hp automobile engines driving two scimitar-shaped multi-bladed pusher propellers located aft of the tailplanes , but this arrangement has been dropped in favour of mounting the propellers on pylons above the wing trailing-edges apparently to enable the racer to be float-equipped for an attempt at the six-decades-old world airspeed record for seaplanes . |
| 15 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 16 | What comes to mind is a series in the Seventies between South Africa and New Zealand , a couple of unhappy England versus Wales matches , the crowd emotion at the Grand Slam decider at Murrayfield and the World Cup quarter-final in Paris . |
| 17 | As early as the summer of 1912 , the year of the Titanic and of the Suffragettes and of the first Variety Performance by Royal Command at the new Palladium Theatre , Europe was already building up its armies . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office has been given a seat at the Natural Environment Research Council , which funds the BAS . |
| 19 | Nine months later , in July 1991 , we facilitated a second self-evaluation process during which VHWs had the opportunity to evaluate the newly-developed health education programme at the well baby clinic of the health centre . |
| 20 | A four-year breeding programme at the Vrolijkheid Breeding Centre , aimed at " retrieving " the quagga by selection from weakly-striped zebras , has produced a foal which is very close to preserved quagga specimens . |
| 21 | Mrs Lee , 43 , formerly the secretary of the club at the Golden Lion Hotel , Barnard Castle , began taking the cash entrusted to her by paying for a telephone bill . |
| 22 | The anti-standing army campaign was led by radical Whigs such as John Trenchard , Walter Moyle and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun , who held their own club at the Grecian Coffee House in Devereux Court off Essex Street , London . |
| 23 | Medical efforts to extend the acts first provoked organized opposition at the Social Science Congress at Bristol in October 1869 . |
| 24 | Central London teachers are asked to provide tea at the next training day ( 17th October 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 26 | Todd first boxes Scotland 's Stephen Wilson , 20 , who has moved up a weight since winning silver at the 1989 world juniors and an ABA title in 1990 . |
| 27 | After his ordination in 1953 , he spent three years as assistant priest at the Immaculate Conception Church , Glasgow . |
| 28 | SHOT-PUTTER Craig Watson has admitted testing positive for Clenbuterol at the British Athletics Championships in June . |
| 29 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 30 | In 1866 , after a term at the National Art Training School in South Kensington , she was invited to use a small studio in St John 's Wood , owned by her uncle , George Hering , a landscape artist . |