Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end . |
| 2 | We met a group of walkers at the top , who cheered as we raced for the cross . |
| 3 | But Bowler said : ‘ It is abundantly clear from our recent correspondence that the actions taken by the club were insufficient , despite 145 arrests and 20 ejections at the Test match alone . |
| 4 | ‘ And regarding the break-ins at the government munition dumps , military vehicle compounds and hi-tech weapon factories . |
| 5 | Let's just check No it 's been quiet on break-ins at the moment . |
| 6 | The language of ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ subjects — which can extend into the discipline itself , as in the derogatory description of astro-physics — reveals a perception of academic study in which subjects are tiered , with ‘ hard ’ sciences at the top and ‘ soft ’ arts at the bottom . |
| 7 | The retrospective exhibition of the art of Alfred Sisley which opened at the Royal Academy of Arts at the beginning of July closes in London on 18 October but continues , with a slightly different selection of works , at the Musée d'Orsay , Paris ( 30 October-31 January 1993 ) and at the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ( 14 March-13 June 1993 ) , its only venue in the United States . |
| 8 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham is one of the finest small collections in the world with about 200 paintings from the Middle Ages to the 20th century . |
| 9 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham is holding a major loan exhibition entitled ‘ Dangerous Liaisons ’ putting Nicolas Poussin 's painting ‘ Tancred and Erminia ’ in context ( 14 October-3 January 1993 ) . |
| 10 | Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham — Includes works by Rubens , Rembrandt , Gainsborough , Rossetti , Monet , Degas , Gauguin and Van Gogh . |
| 11 | Henry , 21 , was just one of three students studying Fine Arts at the college . |
| 12 | His interest in natural sciences ran parallel with his design work at the beginning of his career , and his appointments included the chair of botany applied to the fine arts at the department of science and art , South Kensington ( 1860 ) , and the chair of ornamental art and botany at the Crystal Palace ( 1862 ) . |
| 13 | Since this explanation does not actually require subjects to feel risk it would predict that subjects in this task would describe risks at the expense of other information , thus if many risky aspects of the film were described few non-risky ones would be . |
| 14 | Their interest became centred around sympathetic affiliation to the Comintern and the creation of a United Communist Party , the two main objects of Communist tactics at the time . |
| 15 | In families where they are able to identify good characteristics at the beginning of treatment the parents and child may have a sufficiently positive relationship to move directly into this phase . |
| 16 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 17 | Between them , these statements identify three characteristics at the heart of educational research . |
| 18 | The closeness of these links is obviously a matter of degree , since there will always be some connection between the various aspects of a theory ; but a concern with the general problem of holism will inevitably constrain us to see a theory in a particular perspective , and to focus sharply on certain characteristics at the expense of others . |
| 19 | But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum . |
| 20 | 19:2 stands at the heart of the moral law for Jew and Christian alike ( see 1 Peter 1:15–16 ) . |
| 21 | Houses on the outskirts of West Bromwich approach close on the right beyond long grass while more wild vegetation on the left stands at the top of a high embankment with a stream , pond , college and school at the foot , the land gradually rising again to Church Hill at Wednesbury . |
| 22 | 16 June There 'll be over 700 stands at the Antique & Collectors Fair — London 's largest antiques fair — selling furniture , vintage jewellery , books and toys . |
| 23 | About 11 car dealers will have stands at the show , displaying a wide range of popular vehicles from Fords and Vauxhalls to Alfa Romeos and Mercedes . |
| 24 | Any phenomenology of experience must address the way in which experience stands at the moment where internal fantasies cross the threshold of cultural categories . |
| 25 | In five companies this is achieved by the circulation of planning guidelines at the start of the planning process . |
| 26 | It 's marvellous that it should be that way and and good that it should be that way too because you know the air waves seem to be full of very noisy songs at the moment that that jar a lot of people . |
| 27 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 28 | When a startled horse pricks his ears at the source of his alarm , other horses look in the same direction . |
| 29 | The worst fear is that temperatures will rise most dramatically a t the poles , with a very real possibility that the huge ice caps at the North and South Poles wills tart breaking up and melting . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got one like that , ’ says Chris , who keeps a toy revolver under the bed , with which he fires red caps at the television . |