Example sentences of "senior [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sue Punton , the senior sister at the hospital 's gerontology department believes that essential oils help geriatric patients in several ways .
2 Richard Jarram , senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London , explained that the changes were designed to help India reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) .
3 ‘ Departures ’ , a photographic study of workers and travellers in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station , is the work of , Senior Photographer with The University of Edinburgh 's Audio Visual Services .
4 His senior salesman on the other hand , suggested other pitches , and , probably trying to be helpful , advised me : ‘ Selling life insurance is easy ! ’ he said , ‘ Find a young guy , just married , see .
5 Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league .
6 The principal cipher clerk in the Vatican was on the Hanoverian pay-roll , as was a senior clerk in the French Foreign Office , and the latter , in February 1744 , supplied details of the French invasion plans , which were sufficiently convincing for George II , on 15 February 1744 , to send a warning message to Parliament .
7 My name is Hugh Corbett , I am senior clerk in the King 's Chancery and his special emissary .
8 Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown .
9 The sitting was abandoned by Mayall , although Diccon went on to finish the picture — it subsequently won the senior award in the Irish National Portrait Painting Contest .
10 Dick Pomfret , senior apprentice on the Hurrying Angel , is seventeen and still dependent on his elders for advice and leadership .
11 The Emperor emerged from the cathedral itself at half past seven , escorted by the Abuna , the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Etchege , the senior monk of the realm who ranked second to the Abuna in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Church .
12 Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college .
13 The legal profession in England and Wales is divided into solicitors and barristers , with the latter being considered the senior branch of the profession .
14 Within the government , local officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have expressed misgivings over the fact that permission was granted at senior level despite the findings of environmental impact assessments which concurred with the environmentalists ' fears .
15 External factors such as slowness by the contractor may be causing programme delay and the manager must have the ability to involve himself at senior level within the organisations causing delay , in order to try to influence change in the progress of the work .
16 There is a public commitment from the most senior level within the organisation to develop people .
17 ROBERT ARMSTRONG , the senior counsel at the Canadian Federal Inquiry into drug abuse in sport , wound up its hearings in Toronto by saying that the International Amateur Athletic Federation had failed to tackle the problem of drugs in athletics .
18 She will make her senior debut in the Boca Raton Grand Prix , starting March 5 , and then appear in the prestigious Liptons International at Key Biscayne .
19 WHEN Newry 's Errol Lutton makes his Ulster senior debut in the inter-provincials next weekend in Dublin he can thank his lucky stars that his club were the first to complete their Senior One fixtures this season … otherwise he would have missed his big chance .
20 Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing .
21 A further factor in the scandal arose from remarks made by Clinton on the telephone tapes in which he described Mario Cuomo , the Governor of New York and senior figure within the Democratic Party , as " an aggressive , mean sonofabitch " who acted like a " mafioso " .
22 Meanwhile a senior figure in the Iraqi intelligence service , Dr Safa Al-Habobi , was involved in trying to buy equipment useful in the refinement of uranium — essential to build nuclear weapons .
23 To the surprise of many the former Provincial Premier , Joseph Kabui emerged as a senior figure in the rebel " government " .
24 Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] .
25 Hitherto Theodoric had been regarded by the emperor as the senior figure in the barbarian west : now Clovis was to supplant him .
26 Stephen Gray , senior associate of the APP Partnership , the firm of architects behind the Cornmill , said : ‘ We had to avoid vibrations which would turn the beer cloudy potentially the biggest disaster that could befall the town .
27 ‘ They should get credit for the informal aspects of what they did , and their staff work was superb ’ , says , a senior associate with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment .
28 Spoke to mother who as we arrived was holding a conversation with Head of Senior Department over the telephone .
29 ‘ Making false claims about a second-hand item verbally or in a small ad is a serious offence , even when the proceeds go to charity , ’ according to Mr Keith Richards , a senior lawyer with the Consumers ' Association and the author of the report .
30 ‘ As soon as you have decided that you want to complain you should put it in writing , setting out all the facts and saying what you want out of it , ’ says Keith Richards , a senior lawyer with the Consumer Association .
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