Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] at the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | This had to be abandoned as conditions at the harbour entrance were too dangerous for the lifeboat to enter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |