Example sentences of "at [art] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alfred Snr would have looked at the Quakers ' current predicament without much surprise .
2 By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response .
3 They peck valiantly at the monsters ' pointed snouts , frantically paddling with their feet and beating their wings .
4 There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere .
5 The ‘ Coach Fund ’ was heavily subscribed ; Crawford had taken on an extensive schedule which saw him coaching his protégés ( ‘ Crawford 's Colts ’ ) four evenings a week at Carisbrook , and coaching at the Boys ' High School twice a week .
6 At the Conservatives ' daily press briefing Mr Major unreservedly backed Mr Baker .
7 At the Conservatives ' daily news conference , Mr Mellor , the Treasury Chief Secretary , recalled the sharp fall in share prices on Wednesday after opinion polls indicating Labour had a clear lead .
8 Moreover , he was becoming increasingly annoyed at the Communists ' blatant attempts to maximize their influence wherever it mattered — in , for example , the army and the administration — and to dictate strategy .
9 His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind .
10 Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy .
11 In March a proposal at the Commissions 's 46th session [ see p. 37888 ] which had sought to limit the powers of the Commission 's special envoys ( rapporteurs ) , was deferred to the 47th session , scheduled for February 1991 .
12 Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career .
13 Gloria met men like that at the airmen 's social club .
14 Gynaecologists , however , will be dismayed at the authors ' apparent lack of understanding of the management of a common medical complaint .
15 Admiration for the quality of materials and hand craftsmanship , but horror often at the designers ' sheer lack of restraint .
16 Two years ago it slashed the gift to £24,000 in protest at the Tories ' high interest rate policy .
17 If you looked at the Trees ' upper halves ; at the streaming leaf-hair and the mischievous faces of the Silver Birches and the wise , implacable solemnity of the Oaks and the cool , wanton beauty of the Beeches , you could very nearly see similarities to Human features and Human characteristics .
18 ‘ Political dialogue ’ is required and a dialectical interaction at the economies ' political level between research scientists , research planners , research clientele , and the legislative process is required and hoped for .
19 Lowering his eyes , he stared in some bemusement at the men 's over-large dungarees she was wearing .
20 At the men 's first appeal hearing in 1987 , Skuse said he used a 0.1 per cent solution of caustic soda , which would not dissolve nitrocellulose , but which would also reduce the sensitivity of the test for nitroglycerine .
21 But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes .
22 Coincidence or whatever , in the newspaper one day the following week , there was an advertisement for an art history teacher at a boys ' public school ( that 's a private one in this country ) in Oxfordshire .
23 He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties .
24 They found themselves among a throng of about 10 at a Workers ' Revolutionary Party meeting at a local community centre .
25 When less than a year later she topped the bill with Jason at a Children 's Royal Variety show at the Dominion Theatre she was not about to make the same error of judgement .
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