Example sentences of "[noun] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Over 42,000 visitors perused the 150 stands at the Windows Show held at Olympia , London , in February . |
2 | She threw the sponge at the taps in disgust , and registered the peal of the doorbell at the same time . |
3 | A glance at the percentages of synonyms shows that even when the file is only 20 per cent packed , almost 10 per cent of the file will be stored as synonyms . |
4 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
5 | The club then proceeded St Aldhelm 's Head and later tea was taken at Purbeck House , with a hasty glance at the treasures there . |
6 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
7 | A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading . |
8 | On your right glance at the windows of the palace of 1493 . |
9 | If you are unfamiliar with these , you may be uncertain as to how to select a suitable microphone from the many different kinds which are available , as a glance at the windows of your local electronics store will show you . |
10 | Sometimes these similarities are quite obvious : the ferocious teeth of a predatory dinosaur are a sure indication of hunting habits , with hardly a glance at the fangs of living mammalian carnivores . |
11 | A glance at the newspapers or at the television programme schedules provides a clear indication of this enormous interest in crime , both ‘ real life ’ crime and fictional crime . |
12 | A glance at the pages of Gudok , the organ of the railwaymen , will show the style and problems of a central newspaper at this time . |
13 | There is a rich seam of ‘ Europeanism ’ running through fascist thought , as a quick perusal of Nazi newspapers or a glance at the memoirs of British fascists like Diana Mosley reveals . |
14 | Proof of Richards 's analysis comes from a quick glance at the brochures of two London-area superstores : an IBM PS/1 Family Pack 286 desktop computer sells at the new Business Superstore ( on the A40 , in Park Royal , northwest London ) for £699 plus VAT . |
15 | He was told that no answer was possible because no statistics were kept , though a quick glance at the minutes of the RCM executive would have shown that the conversion rate to Christianity was well into double figures . |
16 | One glance at the letters heaped untidily beside her son 's plate was sufficient to identity them for what they were . |
17 | On the other hand , a glance at the likes of Federico Mendez suggests if he is good enough , he is old enough — unless you subscribe to the theory that the dates of birth of Argentinian props are as suspect as those of Pakistani fast bowlers ! ( * For the cricketers this refers to Mike and Mike , not Wes and Charlie ) . |
18 | The result of our cursory glance at the attempts that have been made at a new perspective on law and the legal system is thus both clear and complicated : the legal system can no longer be understood to be monolithic , but is differentiated , and this differentiation is structured by its relationship to other social sub-systems ; law , moreover , has a different ideological role in different national legal cultures . |
19 | A quick glance at the rules for inspiration : ‘ … the essayists who can move between the worlds of nature and the arts … |
20 | While , at a superficial level , the titles might well mislead , a swift glance at the contents is reassuring . |
21 | And if you fail to spot these , a quick glance at the contents of his bookshelf gives it away . |
22 | Here again , as with discourse type and discourse parts , there are often quite everyday names for functions ( as a glance at the contents page of any functional course will reveal ) , so there is no need to burden students with any metalanguage from the theory of discourse analysis . |
23 | A glance at the route followed will prove that this is not a guide-book , and a glance at the contents will expose me to the scorn of local patriots who will see , with incredulous rage , that on many an occasion I passed silently through their favourite village . |
24 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
25 | Indeed , Catholic theories of federalism are quite explicitly anti-liberal : a glance at the writings of one of the foremost theorists of federalism , Denis de Rougemont , shows the depth of this feeling . |
26 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
27 | Cleo cast a dubious glance at the dogs who were all looking up at Lorimer with smiling , gaping mouths and wagging tails . |
28 | With one last glance at the dogs , who mercifully ignored her , Cleo began to scramble up behind him . |
29 | At the end of a busy year of celebrations , Dennis Farrington , Deputy Secretary and Registrar , casts a backward glance at the festivities . |
30 | A quick glance at the recipes in this book should delight the gastronomically adventurous . |