Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A bicycle wheel fitted into the rail slots perfectly , with disasterous results as Yanto had often discovered after the odd liquid lunch at the Sharpness Hotel .
2 The former , who had succeeded to his title in 1543 , had maintained a strong feudal authority at the service of three Tudor monarchs with divergent religious attitudes .
3 Many suffered hardship waiting for payments but were also made ineligible for help from the Independent Living Fund and other benefits because of the ‘ complete administrative disarray at the Benefits Agency ’ .
4 Gloria said that when a person does not receive the right emotional nourishment at a stage in their life , then they can stay in that emotional period .
5 However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) .
6 And the PLO , Israel and several Arab states are to meet to discuss regional economic development at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on September 20 .
7 He heard strange clicking noises at the windows and footsteps coming up the steps .
8 Looking out of a tall narrow window at a winter sky , the only source of light in a darkened room .
9 So that we really do hope that when the news comes through today , it 's going to be positive and the international community , if I can put it this strongly , will have come to it 's senses and said this can not go on , we must have a more representative political presence at the U N.
10 Where there are to be music fades in and out at the transfer , leave plenty of overlap at the beginnings and endings of the pre-recorded sections to give yourself ample working margins at the mixing stage .
11 CATHOLIC BISHOPS stepped into the Spanish political arena at the weekend by warning Basques not to vote in this month 's elections for Herri Batasuna , the legal arm of ETA , the Basque terrorist group .
12 At first appraisal , Great Britain was , in 1914 , undisputed mistress of the seas , as she had been since 1805 when Admiral Lord Nelson destroyed the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar .
13 Nick Dallman , now an assistant foreign editor at the Guardian , escaped from Hungary to Austria in 1948 .
14 An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West .
15 Safdarjung interested me because his life seemed to encapsulate perfectly the intriguing but cataclysmic half-century that linked the Mughal high noon at the close of the seventeenth century with the decay and disintegration of the Twilight fifty years later .
16 Any policy delivery visits , number of referrals , total daily approaches at the top , and then what actually happens is , is you complete this , and every , this branch what they do , the people that do it , every Monday morning , they all come in here and have training sessions , and then there 's computers around the branch .
17 Given that weak electromagnetic fields at the power frequencies 50Hz and 60Hz do pollute the environment in the sense that they make it hostile for the chemistry of body functions , there is no real choice other than making sure we live well removed from power lines or accept the higher incidence of cancer and leukaemia as tolerable .
18 The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true .
19 You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you .
20 The business of America being business , the phone companies object to being forced to give up possible commercial advantage at the behest of the state , and feel that American companies will suffer in international telecommunications markets .
21 The research will investigate the connections between popular political organization at the grass-roots of society and processes of institutional change at national level in the three countries .
22 This geometric model ( a geometrically constructed system which seems to have the same properties as the Lorenz equations though the connection depends on several global properties of the flow which have not yet been proved ) has an attracting set , for a range of parameter values , which is a strange attractor , but which is a slightly different strange attractor at every parameter value in the range ( see below ) .
23 She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path .
24 At the recent Annual Meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish concern was expressed about the state of the old stable yard at the end of Station Lane near the Little Chef .
25 Ingres is being ported to the Topsy loosely-coupled computer at the London City University 's Parallel Applications Centre : Topsy runs a distributed Unix-compatible kernel called Meshix , and uses Motorola 68030 or MIPS R3000 chips .
26 Explore the exciting underwater world at the Brighton Sea Life Centre … discover one of England 's largest collections of marine creatures from shrimps , starfish and stingrays to sensational sharks and octopus .
27 TOP brass from the emergency and armed services inspected would-be uniformed recruits at a passing out parade in Teesside .
28 ‘ But even now our tastes are very different , I 'm reading a French classic novel at the moment and he 's reading a book on Jim Morrison .
29 Robin Francis ( York ) made a clean sweep of his four races to win the award for the top ten-year-old boy at the Gateshead open meet .
30 There were empty arched pigeonholes at the back , fretted and carved , and two empty little drawers .
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