Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE round of applause which the Prime Minister attracted at the European summit in Strasbourg earlier this month has already entered the folklore of Thatcherism . |
| 2 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror . |
| 3 | NINE of 13 drug charges against a former tyre depot manager were dropped at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday . |
| 4 | Recent seminars have looked at the changing situation in southern Africa and the Gulf War and its effects . |
| 5 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 6 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 7 | John Ellis of Hanmer ( a small village just across the Welsh border ) was presented at the manorial court in 1581 ‘ for erecting of one bay of a house upon the lords waste grounde in Myddle woode ’ . |
| 8 | The architect 's plans were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899 . |
| 9 | His ‘ Feast of Nebi Musa ’ , showing a Muslim public procession near Jericho , was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1938 . |
| 10 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 11 | This led to Meredith posing for the face of the dead poet , Thomas Chatterton [ q.v. ] , in Wallis 's painting ‘ Chatterton ’ ( Tate Gallery ) which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856 . |
| 12 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 14 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 15 | Moscow resented being excluded from the post-war occupation of Japan for example , whilst Washington was disturbed at the Communist victory in China in 1949 , and in June 1950 the invasion of pro-Western South Korea by the Communist North dramatically demonstrated that Cold War tensions outside Europe could have a major impact within Europe . |
| 16 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 17 | I am no farmer , or perhaps I could understand how wheat and potatoes can be grown at the same time in Ireland . |
| 18 | Shaun Skelhorn , who is autistic and has behavioural problems , has been accepted at the Higashi Institute in Boston in September . |
| 19 | Shaun Skelhorn , who is autistic and has behavioural problems , has been accepted at the Higashi Institute in Boston in September . |
| 20 | It was William Beveridge who hailed a revolution in public administration : ‘ We have … under the stress of war , made practical discoveries in the art of government almost comparable to the immense discoveries made at the same time in the art of flying ’ . |
| 21 | The coup was declared illegal by the government and its allies , among them France , the French officer responsible for presidential security declaring the coup unlawful in a statement made at the main square in Moroni , the capital . |
| 22 | But in an announcement made at the High Court in London it 's agreed to pay compensation on the basis of 85 percent liability . |
| 23 | She is seen at the National Cemetery in Seoul paying her respects to the thousands killed in the Korean War . |
| 24 | Further work is needed at the conceptual level in this area to determine the exact nature of the constraints required . |
| 25 | Before coming to London , the exhibition will be shown at the Grand Palais in Paris . |
| 26 | ‘ American Art in the Twentieth Century ’ is at the Martin-Gropius-Bau ( 8 May-25 July ) and will be shown at the Royal Academy in London in the autumn ( 16 September-12 December ) . |
| 27 | Curated by Norman Rosenthal and Christos Joachimedes , ‘ American Art in the Twentieth Century ’ opens at the Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin , at the beginning of this month ( 8 May-25 July ) and will be shown at the Royal Academy in the autumn ( 16 September-12 December ) . |
| 28 | His first experiment , shown at the Royal Society in September 1662 , featured a puppy preserved in spirits of wine throughout the summer months . |
| 29 | He was buried at the General Cemetery in Sheffield . |
| 30 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |