Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] at the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully all will be well for the teachers responsible for tea at the next meeting . |
| 2 | It was widespread among craft unions like the wool combers who were said to have become " one society throughout the kingdom … if any of their club is out of work they give them a ticket and money to seek for work at the next town where a box club is " . |
| 3 | This can be contrasted with the experience of the person who moved but where there is no clear change in his overall level of engagement at the next datapoint ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 4 | After the Lord Mayor 's Show came the dust cart and the ignominy of defeat at the first hurdle next year . |
| 5 | Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 . |
| 6 | A man like Guy Sterne was n't likely to blurt out a confession of guilt at the first accusation , was he ? |
| 7 | Nos. 384 , 387 and 398 were taken out of service at the fifth stage of the conversion on 16 October 1951 and the rest survived until the sixth stage on 5 January 1952 , when they were scrapped at Penhall Road . |
| 8 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |
| 9 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 10 | The elemental functions of intersection are thus reflected up as internal functions of space at the next level , with the result that the required characteristics of the system are specified in more and more detail as the assembly is decomposed into its constituent elements ( see Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 11 | Gorbachev and Kohl , after talks in Stavropol , reach agreement that a united Germany is free to join whichever bloc it wishes , allowing agreement on external aspects of unification at the third round of two-plus-four talks on July 17 in Paris , which were also attended by the Polish Foreign Minister [ p. 37659 ] . |
| 12 | By slowing gastric emptying , it increases the duration of gastric distention which explains the persistent impression of satiety at the sixth hour . |
| 13 | Or will he be brave enough to take a dose of poison at the last moment ? |
| 14 | Barnett J. went on to hold that the district judge had mistakenly overlooked the reversal of the burden of proof at the second stage but that this had not vitiated his assessment of the material and arguments , nor his arrival at the correct conclusion that the prosecution had discharged the burden thus placed upon it . |
| 15 | The inadequate map suggested villages lay ahead so we stopped on a jut of land at the first hint of cultivation : another delectable bivvy site . |
| 16 | He bought a bottle of brandy at the first liquor store he found and he began to drink . |
| 17 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 18 | The electorate is able to choose a candidate , a party , a programme , and a government ; the electorate knows roughly what the government will do once in office ; and so the electorate knows who to blame and which party to vote out of office at the next election . |
| 19 | After several weeks of deadlock at the ninth round of the peace talks , the government and the rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) signed Protocol Number 3 on March 12 [ for earlier protocols see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ] . |
| 20 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 21 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 22 | I got in touch with my French and German colleagues who agreed to support a UK proposal to place the matter on the agenda when it was presented for approval at the first meeting . |
| 23 | Ten military officers , including Maj. Gideon Orkar , the apparent leader of the attempt , went on trial charged with treason at the first session of the military tribunal set up to deal with offenders on May 21 . |
| 24 | Much of the mutual enjoyment of the other sex is lost if the only end in view , for at least one of the two , is to get the other into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 25 | She did n't feel comfortable and safe with anybody but Angus : he had n't tried to push her into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 26 | LABOUR leader John Smith launched a think-tank yesterday to come up with ideas for putting the party into power at the next Election . |
| 27 | The North-South Exchanges and Co-operation Subcommittee met on March 18 , and agreed to prepare a supplementary agreement on inter-Korean exchanges and co-operation for signature at the next round of Premiers ' talks in Seoul on May 5 . |
| 28 | Soviet writers observed that these resolutions corresponded with resolutions on eliminating foreign bases in the Third World adopted in the UN General Assembly ( for example at the Twenty-First Session in December 1965 ) and described them as part of the broader ‘ struggle against imperialism ’ . |
| 29 | Roberts ' solicitor , John Grey-Lloyd , did not oppose the application but said he reserved the right to apply for bail at the next hearing . |
| 30 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |