Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 2 | Prince Charles was installed as President at a degree congregation in Edinburgh in 1976 , and Sir Michael took the opportunity to underline to him that whatever ‘ the tribulations of our staff , who deal with the paper work of over 80,000 students and over 1000 courses , the Council itself and its committees and subject boards are concerned with one thing only , and that is quality ’ . |
| 3 | Only those named as drivers at the commencement of the rental may drive the car , and each one must sign the rental contract with the hire company . |
| 4 | If a few Ukrainians suffered as individuals at the hands of the Nicholaevan regime , Jews , like Poles , suffered collectively . |
| 5 | IT has long been thought that conditions at the boundary between the core and mantle influence the Earth 's magnetic field , but the supporting evidence is rather indirect . |
| 6 | An earlier study had shown that patients at the Glasgow clinic did not contain a higher proportion of smokers than did Renfrew-Paisley controls . |
| 7 | A Home Office pathologist was called and pupils at the school were turned back and the school closed after a caretaker found the body beside tennis courts at breakfast time . |
| 8 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 9 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 10 | This had to be abandoned as conditions at the harbour entrance were too dangerous for the lifeboat to enter . |
| 11 | It is not known why Arcadius was opposed to Theuderic 's regime , but Riculf quite clearly hoped that changes at the centre would improve his prospects in his own civitas . |
| 12 | Kenneth is an atheist and Uncle Hamish , who has a reflecting telescope cast and ground at the glass works but never uses his private observatory , espouses a brand of condemnationist Christianity that replaces caritas with anathemata . |
| 13 | A self-confessed socialist , Cipriani duly supported all types of social reform , the mention of which was viewed as subversion at the time , and his record as a fighter against all forms of injustice is impressive : |
| 14 | In both , ‘ irrationality ’ — in the form of authorial personality , unconscious contradiction or excess — is discovered as negation at the heart of the commercial and purposeful rationality of capitalist production and bourgeois ideology . |
| 15 | I am advised that doctors at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital have confirmed that Carley could not have been transferred when the hospital test results showed that she had meningitis and the test results were available within one hour of Carley 's admission . |
| 16 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 17 | The bids confirmed that they were best to hang on to them and they will now be refurbished and pole-mounted at the entrance to the Museum . |