Example sentences of "to a [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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1 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
2 | Staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital were justifiably angry last week after being asked to make donations to a charity based at the hospital . |
3 | Local leaders attributed it to a request made at the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies by the Chair of South Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , Torez Kolumbegov , for the autonomous region in Georgia to be reintegrated in the Russian Federation [ for January referendum in favour of reintegration see pp. 38731-32 ] . |
4 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
5 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of the whole of the Consignment , to a sum calculated at the rate of £800 per tonne on either the gross weight of the Consignment or , where applicable , the tonnage computed in accordance with Condition 8(2) ( a ) or ( b ) hereof : |
6 | Iranian leaders in early June reacted adversely to a resolution passed at the summit on May 29 , which supported Iraq 's long-standing claim to full sovereignty over the Shatt-al Arab waterway . |
7 | The Moroccan news media reacted unfavourably to a resolution passed at the Sept. 9-13 session of the European Parliament for a delegation to be sent to observe the ceasefire . |
8 | The CBI 's conclusions are based on replies from 268 manufacturing companies and 151 non-manufacturing companies to a questionnaire completed at the end of last year . |
9 | Without a word Ramses led us to a boat moored at the end of the dock , a small felucca with a heavily patched sail . |
10 | Run a stringline from the top of the bank to a post set at the foot of the bank , checking for square . |