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

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1 She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived .
2 Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ .
3 At the Crimean Republic 's Supreme Soviet sitting on Sept. 25 , amendments were adopted to rectify the " defects " in the Constitution as adopted in May [ see p. 38924 ] .
4 PARENTS of pupils at the Prime Minister 's old school have voted against opting out of local authority control .
5 THE GOVERNMENT 'S flagship education policy of opting out faces a key test today at the Prime Minister 's old school .
6 Ms Davis is highly regarded at the Metropolitan Police 's forensic science laboratory .
7 ‘ Very little point in your brother 's and my ‘ getting together ’ , Anneliese , ’ Caroline heard herself laugh flippantly , rigid with embarrassment at the other girl 's blunt attempts at matchmaking , ‘ since I 'm flying back to London tomorrow ! ’
8 At the new airline 's operational headquarters — a small warehouse at Lowfield Heath , near Gatwick — recruitment of aircrews began .
9 ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression .
10 Shareholders were told at the Bournemouth-based group 's annual meeting yesterday that January reservations were 9.4 per cent up on last year 's and that this month , a 41-unit development was sold to a housing association .
11 ‘ The president was a former Arabic interpreter in the Soviet foreign service , ’ explains Sir Patrick , who himself learned the language in the late 1950s at the Foreign Office 's Middle East Centre for Arab Studies ( MECAS ) in the hills behind Beirut .
12 Suddenly I felt homesick , even before I left , and quietly raged at the royal bastard 's devious plans .
13 It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process .
14 The dispute marked the latest stage in the political turmoil which had begun on Oct. 9 with Mamaloni 's resignation on as leader of the People 's Alliance Party ( PAP ) , shortly before he was due to face a challenge to his leadership at the ruling party 's annual convention .
15 WIRRAL A.C. 's dominance of veterans cross country continued at Padgate when the Bebington club placed four in the top seven to clinch the team award at the Northern Veteran 's monthly event .
16 It has remained in Prague ever since and is currently on show at the Czech capital 's National Gallery .
17 They are also available at the dead person 's local District Registry .
18 A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet .
19 I am disappointed at the hon. Gentleman 's negative attitude to a £300 million-plus investment in a second crossing of the Severn , which will improve enormously communications for the people of Wales .
20 A well-known example is the micro gallery at the National Gallery 's new Sainsbury Wing , where visitors can see high quality reproductions of the pictures , learn more about them and plan a route through the rooms .
21 At the National Gallery 's new sumptuous shop in the Sainsbury Wing I recorded three books on Gwen John ( and none on Augustus , her brother ) , two on Artemisia Gentileschi ( one being the very scholarly and feminist monograph by Mary D Garrard , published by Princeton University Press , now in paperback ) , one book on Rosalba Carriera , and most surprisingly given the feminist industry around this artist , only one on Mary Cassatt .
22 A crisis meeting was being held today at the National Trust 's Victorian Crown Bar opposite the Europa .
23 This is not idle City gossip , but a sample of the detail to emerge from City Lives , an oral history of the City and part of the National Life Story Collection ( NLSC ) at the British Library 's National Sound Archive ( NSA ) .
24 Some of us went along and parked at Welshpool Station and took a look at the narrow-gauge line 's original terminus where it connected with the Cambrian Line .
25 The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month .
26 But there 's one yearly booking he 'll not be allowed to get out of — piping the high table into dinner at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference .
27 One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore .
28 On November 16 , 1990 , at a stormy shareholders ' general meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull , Le Roux 's house of cards came tumbling down .
29 RICE wines made from a recipe given last year were presented at an annual members ' judging evening of the Alresford and District Wine Circle at the John Pearson Hall last week .
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