Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 2 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 3 | Also press the small sprays of buds at the tip of the stem , thinning out any buds that are too thick and bulky . |
| 4 | One of the village pubs , the Cherry Tree still has mementos of festivities at the well ; including a vial of well water mixed with river-water from the Ganges brought over for centenary celebrations in 1964 . |
| 5 | I studied the lists of heresies at the back of my catechism . |
| 6 | Thom 's research centred round a method of calculation of flow problems , using a process of continuous approximation to final values of quantities at the intersections of a square grid covering the field of study . |
| 7 | Particular emphasis is placed upon longitudinal investigations of changes at the work-place or of the development of personal strategies to cope with stress in jobs or during unemployment . |
| 8 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 9 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 10 | Four pairs of rooms at the side of the hotel each share a shower and toilet , and three of these have access to a balcony ; these suites are ideal for families . |
| 11 | The two are scheduled to have six hours of talks at the White House tomorrow on agenda that include trade negotiations , Bosnia and the despatching of a US special envoy to Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | ‘ And a lot saner than those chits of girls at the museum who wo n't let me have Father 's property back . |
| 13 | Parents of pupils at the school have been asked to give 210 pounds each to bale it out of trouble … but not all can afford to pay . |
| 14 | The move to grant-maintained status has been overwhelmingly supported by the parents of pupils at the Hillingdon schools that opted to go grant-maintained . |
| 15 | Many Labour councils held these kinds of sentiments at the time . |
| 16 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 17 | ‘ I AM familiar with the feelings of operators at the beginning of an accident ’ , writes Gregori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Walesa also travelled to Bavaria , where he laid a wreath at the Dachau former Nazi concentration camp , and to Berlin , and left via Frankfurt-an-der-Oder where he held talks on the problems of delays at the border crossings . |
| 19 | The Custody officer is responsible for safeguarding the rights of suspects at the police station . |
| 20 | ‘ We may have gone too far in stressing the rights of children at the expense of upholding the responsibilities of parents and professionals in supervising them ’ , she said . |
| 21 | The profit positions for the writers of options at the point of expiry are the exact opposite of those for the purchasers . |
| 22 | The notion of lasers in space has captured the imaginations of planners at the Pentagon and the White House . |
| 23 | Principal Research Areas : Igneous , metamorphic and experimental petrology : A major unifying theme of this group is the interpretation of chemical and textural features of rocks at the inter- and intra-crystal scale , to provide insights into large scale processes . |
| 24 | Despite the positive aspects of school/authority relationships mentioned in this report thus far , there seems to be a gulf between the intentions of the Authority , ( the Directorate , QAU etc ) and the understandings of personnel at the school level . |
| 25 | To this end the normal procedure is to reconcile the two sets of accounts at the close of the accounting period ( close down ) . |
| 26 | Relatives and friends of patients at the hospice can now have their loved ones honoured in a leather bound In Memoriam volume by giving a donation to the hospice fund-raising appeal . |
| 27 | At the end of the sixth century a Frankish king complained that all the riches were flowing into the hands of bishops at the expense of the royal fisc , and that royal authority was being eclipsed by that of the bishops of cities . |
| 28 | Because symmetry depends on the correspondence between reflected sides , sensitivity to symmetry requires representation of both the right and left sides of shapes at the segregation stage . |
| 29 | The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 . |
| 30 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |