Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chair on which he is claimed to have parked his splendid bulk during rehearsals is kept at the Mansion House . |
| 2 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 3 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 4 | The suggested form of creed is included at the end of the Preface , and is repeated here . |
| 5 | The human cost of communism is put at the staggering figure of 143 million dead . |
| 6 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 7 | Changes in roles over the year and changes in emphasis in areas of responsibility are outlined at the meeting . |
| 8 | Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive . |
| 9 | Standing in determined opposition to him was G. G. Williams who , anticipating many of the protests of the 1960s ( and later ) , objected that ‘ the parity of esteem is purchased at the expense of the grammar school ’ . |
| 10 | The decisive battle for control of Panama was fought at the building that houses military headquarters . |
| 11 | In Chapter 18 , we showed that the equilibrium level of income is determined at the point where total withdrawals from the flow of income ( S + T + M ) are just equal to total injections into that flow ( I + G + X ) . |
| 12 | One way of gaining a crude overall view of the pattern of income is to look at the current pay attached to a range of jobs in Britain . |
| 13 | At every major tournament there is a police presence , partly to control the crowds , partly for security reasons since a lot of money is collected at the gate ; and occasionally to deal with spectators who have lingered too long in the beer tents . |
| 14 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
| 15 | As part of the control of the transaction it is important that the majority of meetings are held at the firm 's own premises . |
| 16 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 17 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |
| 18 | Yesterday , busloads of lads were disgorged at the city square to make their feelings plain . |
| 19 | There is another kind of experiment being performed at the electron-positron storage rings at DESY , the German particle-physics laboratory in Hamburg . |
| 20 | First , the original LP enjoyed the imprimatur of the composer whose concluding speech of thanks is preserved at the end of this disc . |
| 21 | A neat stone arch and a flight of steps were built at the entrance and these have survived . |
| 22 | Twenty-nine pairs of shoes were launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 23 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 24 | Why are the C E C fearful of matters being discussed at the Apex conference ? |
| 25 | The vineyards of Mailly-Champagne are situated at the northern end of the village on fairly flat ground where they fare exceptionally well . |
| 26 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 27 | In 1954 The Pirates of Penzance was playing at the Streatham Hill Theatre , and we had one of the baritones as a lodger instead of the usual girls . |
| 28 | When the name of Holovich was called at the parades and counts , he shouted back ‘ Holly … here ’ and the trifle of the gesture was ignored . |
| 29 | Various other objections to the Nestlé takeover of Rowntree were raised at the time . |
| 30 | Consequently , even if the desulphate ester of PABA-UDCA is disulphated at the 3α position by bacterial action after oral administration the 7 β-monosulphate ester of PABA-UDCA formed can be resistant to bacterial transformation resulting in no absorption from the gut and rapid excretion into faeces . |