Example sentences of "of a [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
2 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
3 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
4 | We have just received our first order from the Ukraine as a result of a contact made at the Expozoo exhibition in Paris . |
5 | However any small boat owner will appreciate not only the need for recording navigational information but also the pleasure to be gained after the event in recalling the events of a passage or cruise through the pages of a log kept at the time . |
6 | All these poignant images and many more were presented during the course of a colloquium held at the Fondation Marcel Mérieux near Annecy , France , last weekend . |
7 | The threat was made in the form of a statement issued at the annual conference in Rabaul , on Oct. 23 , attended by the premiers of Manus , New Ireland , and East and West New Britain , and community leaders from Bougainville . |
8 | ABJECTION , Melancholia and Love is , with three additions , the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Warwick in 1957 on the works of Julia Kristeva . |
9 | THE Capenhurst decommissioning team has been awarded a plaque in recognition of a paper presented at the Oak Ridge Conference in the United States . |
10 | The document was the result of a process begun at the party 's 1987 annual conference ; final drafts of the review , then called Meet the Challenge , Make the Change , had been released in May 1989 [ see p. 36667 ] . |
11 | ( 2 ) If on an allotted day on which any proceedings on the Bill are to be brought to a conclusion at a time appointed by this Order the House is adjourned , or the sitting is suspended , before that time no notice shall be required of a Motion made at the next sitting by a member of the Government for varying or supplementing the provisions of this Order . |
12 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |