Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father .
2 Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute .
3 However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically .
4 Perhaps for many of the fans the best moment of all came at the end of the fifth Test , when Tony Greig went out and ‘ grovelled ’ before them .
5 She thought bitterly of the spots she of ten got at the comers of her mouth or across her forehead .
6 The evangelical movement within the Church of England , from the royal proclamation of 1787 issued at the instigation of William Wilberforce , aimed at stirring up the vigilant suppression of " vice " and attacked pastimes even when they were not breaking the sabbath .
7 A mean of the two with a multiplier of four arrived at a figure of two hundred and thirteen thousand , eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence .
8 Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control .
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