Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did most of my research at the Public Records Office . |
| 2 | The entire white watch crew at Wallasey fire station received a prestigious award in recognition of their bravery at the triple rescue . |
| 3 | Detectives spoke of their disgust at the brutal attack . |
| 4 | The Scotsman has learned that the National Art Collections Fund has stripped the university of a purchase grant worth several thousand pounds because of its disquiet at the proposed sale . |
| 5 | However , the NCOAP directed the greater part of its invective at the moral issue , rather than at the prior financial one . |
| 6 | Perhaps , as the attacker 's jaws open wide to grab the small , furry shape , the potto acts like a jerking hedgehog and thrusts the back of its neck at the biting mouth . |
| 7 | It was obvious that oceanic crust must be continually destroyed somewhere at a rate comparable with that of its creation at the oceanic ridges in order to maintain a balance . |
| 8 | Away from the defence debate Dr Mowlam also yesterday spoke of her despair at the growing homeless problem in her constituency . |
| 9 | Curbishley won the senior women 's race in an encouraging 63.7 seconds , even though she tore a ligament at the side of her knee at the halfway mark . |
| 10 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |
| 11 | The Welsh Office remains wet ; the Scottish Office damp ; and Douglas Hurd has the team of his choice at the Foreign Office . |
| 12 | While Ambrose earns wickets for his colleagues merely by dint of his presence at the other end , one timely intrusion at Chelmsford dispelled any notions of sloth . |
| 13 | ‘ Depressed , ’ is his summary of his state at the final exclusion . |
| 14 | Gironella 's first direct encounter with Velázquez was at an exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 1959 . |
| 15 | In April 1947 he was appointed a lord of appeal in ordinary , having already been granted in January a hereditary peerage in recognition of his work at the international tribunal at Nuremberg ( 1945–6 ) . |
| 16 | Dr Alastair McKinley is monitoring the amount of ultraviolet rays from the sun as part of his work at the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 17 | To embody this revolt of the young against the old , Mosley founded his New Party , encouraged by the triumph of his appearance at the Labour Party Conference in 1930 , after his resignation from office . |
| 18 | In one of the last and most highly dramatised flourishes of his directorship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , J. Carter Brown announced on 4 June that his museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be receiving on loan twenty-two fifth-century BC sculptures from Greece that have never been loaned before . |
| 19 | Benjamin pointed with the tip of his finger at the purple-red crosses on the corpse 's chest . |
| 20 | O. Pächt identified the Alexis Master as Anketil , a monk-goldsmith of St Albans Abbey , who completed a new shrine for the relics of St Alban in 1129 , and spent part of his career at the Danish court as royal moneyer . |
| 21 | It was all about preparing properly , having pride and big hearts and playing to the best of your ability at the right time . |
| 22 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 23 | The problems become acute from the vantage of electronic geographic information as was made quite clear to participants in the seminar on The Future of Our Landscape at the Royal Society ( London ) in October 1992 . |