Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [noun] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FREE AT LAST entered 1,000 Guineas calculations after her victory in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes at rain-soaked Newmarket yesterday . |
| 2 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 3 | Among the people involved in these conceptual developments were Andrei Sakharov in the USSR , Edward Teller in the USA and in the British universities G. P. Thomson at Imperial College and Peter Thonemann in Oxford . |
| 4 | ( Sources : Association for the Conservation of Energy ; report of Commonwealth group of experts on climate change ; paper by Dr F. Kenneth Hare at 1988 Toronto conference on climate change ; report of IPCC Scientific Assessment Group ; paper by Dr J.T. Houghton of the Meteorological Office ; and Dr Pier Vellinga , Director of the National Climate Change Programme , The Hague . ) |
| 5 | The Dutch were probably right , to judge from a handwritten note de Gaulle gave Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at that time : ‘ The supernational organisms of the six , which tend inevitably and abusively to become irresponsible superstates , will be reformed , subordinated to governments and used for the normal tasks of the council and technical business . ’ |
| 6 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 7 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 8 | It is the movement of the verse which makes this sonnet come alive , as was brilliantly demonstrated by F. R. Leavis at some length ( Scrutiny vol. xiii , pp. 119–34 , especially pp. 125 ff ) . |
| 9 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 2 October : Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy were present this evening at a Reception given by the Prime Minister and Mr Denis Thatcher at 10 Downing Street to launch the Harold Macmillan Trust . |
| 10 | Pacific shareholders are to be offered new Martin Currie shares at 92 p.c. of the underlying asset value of the Pacific trust . |
| 11 | Minardi F1 driver Paulo Barilla , who took his drive from Spain 's Luis Perez Sala at last year 's Japanese Grand Prix , has himself been displaced exactly one year later . |
| 12 | The even , tedious voice of the base desk operator went on : ‘ Last seen heading north on Kew Bridge Road at 19.20 hours . |
| 13 | Headley Down 's Paul Whillians has won senior schoolboy motocross races with monotonous regularity of late , but the monotony was shattered in Saturday 's Bedfont Lake meeting at Four Marks where he managed no higher than third — a disastrous performance by his standard . |
| 14 | Mr Morton has long been rumoured as a possible successor to Sir Bob Reid at British Rail . |
| 15 | Professor Jim Lynch at Horticultural Research International has found that lettuce yields can double when pots are inoculated with trichoderma , while petunias and marigolds develop extra-large early flowers . |
| 16 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 17 | Orkney Children 's Panel , however , with Mrs Katherine Kemp at that time the Reporter , recommended social work help within the family . |
| 18 | Presteign , Clun & Bishop 's Castle Railway , plans and sections ( from Clun and from Craven Arms ( junction with Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway ) to Presteign , short spur from Clun line to Craven Arms line at north-facing junction at Hopton Heath . |
| 19 | Most of the Lake District prints at this time were made by craftsmen from either paintings or drawings or developed from sketchbook studies produced by painters who never actually touched the print themselves . |
| 20 | Trailing to a Cliff Thompson goal at half time Herrington were soon back on level terms when Tom Welsh scored only to again go behind to a David Ross effort . |
| 21 | In winter , the aphid lays its eggs only on the spindle bush in hedgerows in the UK ; so counts of eggs on these bushes enables Professor Michael Way at Imperial College to predict how prevalent the aphids will be in the summer . |
| 22 | Adding to the energy level is Colin McCormack doubling at deceptive speed as two mistaken characters . |
| 23 | Adding to the energy level is Colin McCormack doubling at deceptive speed as two mistaken characters . |
| 24 | From the Arche de la Défense at one end of the city to the Parc de la Villette on the other , with the Pyramide of the Louvre , the Musée d'Orsay and Beaubourg in between , Paris can claim to have the most impressive monuments to the religion of culture to be seen anywhere in the Western world . |
| 25 | Racecourses have been advised by the Jockey Club to make their own security arrangements against the use of sonic binoculars of the type allegedly used to frighten Ile De Chypre at Royal Ascot last season . |
| 26 | Jockey Greville Starkey was allegedly unseated by an ultrasonic stun gun as he neared the winning post on Ile de Chypre at Royal Ascot last year . |
| 27 | She edged out Hatoof in a tight finish to the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp on Arc day and holds Central City — also in today 's Newbury field — on earlier running in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot , when the pair were second and third to another unbeaten filly , Marling . |
| 28 | Lyric Fantasy , brilliant winner of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot in June , later became the first two-year-old filly to win the all-aged Nunthorpe Stakes . |
| 29 | ROHITA looked special after blasting clear in the final furlong for a three-lengths win in the Payne and Gunter Fillies Stakes at Goodwood and it may take a good one to stop her in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 30 | This month , Tom Gadd and Suzanne Ardley look at striking furnishings and accessories designed for a brighter life |