Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 3 | It is an idol , a false , man-made attempt at redefining God , and its position at the very heart of the Craft , as the innermost secret , simply serves to show how freemasonry stands on a spurious foundation . ’ |
| 4 | A leading argument deployed by the ILP and its supporters at the Labour Party conference was that only by quitting the Government could the Labour Party hope to retain its authority with ‘ the men in the workshops ’ and thus avert ‘ the terrible danger of insurrection . ’ |
| 5 | Her jaw and cheekbone were broken , and her room at The Green residential home in Redruth , Cornwall , was splattered with blood . |
| 6 | Later the same year the whole family set off for Vienna , where the children played to the Empress Maria Theresia and her consort at the beautiful Schönbrunn palace . |
| 7 | But they feel torn between their loathing for General Noriega 's drug-based regime , and their alarm at the cavalier flouting of the OAS principle of non-intervention . |
| 8 | A reception will be held for the runners and their supporters at the English Wine Centre . |
| 9 | These were ‘ the integration of different segments of the labour process by a system of conveyors and handling devices ensuring the movement of the materials to be transformed and their arrival at the appropriate machine tools ’ . |
| 10 | More people own shares but , as a percentage of the number of shares held , the individual shareholding has fallen from thirty percent in 1979 to eighteen percent today , and if all these shareholders c turned up to exercise their right and their power at the annual meeting of British Telecom or British Gas , or any other , to say , we think it 's outrageous the sort of money that you are now paying your chairs and your directors , what would happen ? |
| 11 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |
| 12 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 13 | After Mass they talked , chatting about this and that , as they walked from Southwark across London Bridge to meet Cranston and his wife at the Golden Pig , a comfortable tavern on the city side of the river . |
| 14 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 15 | Dr Kai Simons and his colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory recently undertook a detailed study of the entry of Semliki Forest virus ( which can cause encephalitis in mice ) into animal cells . |
| 16 | During the early years of the new century , Osborn and his colleagues at the American Museum of Natural History created striking displays of the great dinosaurs whose remains had been unearthed in the west , solving the complex technical problems involved in reconstructing the skeletons of such exotic beasts . |
| 17 | Amulya Reddy and his colleagues at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore say India can improve its standard of living , generate less CO2 , and spend less on energy . |
| 18 | Had it not been for him and his colleagues at the National Trust many old and historical buildings would have suffered . |
| 19 | The author worked alongside Maxwell for many years and his career at the Daily Mirror also ended in disgrace with his sacking , soon after the publishers death . |
| 20 | Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time . |