Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this had been an attempt to land on the Spanish Main , and the Spanish felt much less concerned about the long string of small islands in the Lesser Antilles at the eastern end of the Caribbean . |
| 2 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent this evening attended a Gala Evening in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England at the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 3 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 4 | No sailor who has ever crossed the tropical Pacific at the right season will forget the idyll of the passage . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average level of London weighting allowance paid to employees in ( a ) inner London and ( b ) outer London at the latest date of which figures are available . |
| 6 | The one upholstered in blue left Euston at 1.30 pm ; the other left Glasgow at the same hour and they flashed past one another at Preston to reach Glasgow simultaneously at 8 pm . |
| 7 | The slow rate of industrial growth in France and relative lag within an industrialising Europe at the formative period of trade unions meant that they consisted of relatively skilled workers employed in comparatively small-scale enterprises . |
| 8 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , jade was prized as a prestige substance among Neolithic communities in temperate Europe at the opposite extremity of Eurasia . |
| 9 | Even in non-industrial Bordeaux ( 1873 ) it formed only 40 per cent of the wealth left at death in 1873 ( 23 per cent of the biggest fortunes ) , while in industrial Lille at the same time it formed only 31 per cent . |
| 10 | The bulk of the textile manufacturers in northern France at the same period were similarly children of what could already be considered the middle strata ; the bulk of the mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham hosiery manufacturers had similar origins , two-thirds of them actually coming from the hosiery trade . |