Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [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 | They 're singing gold-rush songs at the tops of their voices in the dayniter and it 's a wonder they have n't all rocked the train right off the rails , with the noise and the booze . ’ |
| 3 | In spite of some side-swipes at the theories of Raymond Federman , Barth 's own fictional practice is not necessarily at odds with that of the latter . |
| 4 | Anyway , that evening her hair was swept up over her ears at the sides and fastened back with two tortoise-shell clips , her eyes seemed dark as dark , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 5 | ‘ Prior to and during the three game Honduras-EI Salvador series , for example , the press reported charges of ‘ mistreatment ’ of Honduras fans at the hands of El Salvadoreans and accusations of ‘ brutality ’ directed at players on both teams . ’ |
| 6 | You sort out the settings at the rehearsals . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he said at last , conversationally , stretching out along the cockpit seat and crossing long hard legs at the ankles in front of him , ‘ is blatant prejudice a temporary flaw , or a permanent feature of your personality ? ’ |
| 8 | Bend your legs at the knees and swoop your arms down and behind your bottom , in one movement . |
| 9 | His arms had been amputated at the elbow and his legs at the knees . |
| 10 | She looked up at his face , unattractively blotched by the morning chill , at the grubby stubble , at the two brittle hairs at the corners of his mouth , at the trace of blackened blood in the left nostril , as if he had had a nose bleed , at the eyes , still gummy with sleep . |
| 11 | The pinstripe trousers were tucked into green shooting boots with buckles at the sides , giving him a competent air . |
| 12 | Middle-class people and intellectuals , as in Germany , were greatly attracted ; student organizations at the universities were quick to exclude Jews , forbidding their members to take cycling or walking trips with them . |
| 13 | One of the main ways in which they did this was by seeking to rally people behind their cause by appealing to the issues of the day , through the press , pulpit , and the speeches given by the candidates at the hustings . |
| 14 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 15 | Dissenters were visibly active in support of Whig candidates at the polls , and their electoral impact was often significant , since they might have comprised one-fifth of the total electorate , whilst in some constituencies the proportion of voters who were Nonconformists was much higher . |
| 16 | It was Pascoe 's turn to roll his eyes at the heavens . |
| 17 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 18 | Kopyion sat on a chair , staring out of half-blind eyes at the screens and eating dates from a little box on his lap . |
| 19 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 20 | Leaning on a crutch , Mr Kurspahic , editor-in-chief of Oslobodenje ( Liberation ) , told editors and journalists at the awards lunch at London 's Savoy Hotel : ‘ Thank you for the feeling of not being alone in the world . |
| 21 | In some instances , ( e.g. pls. 11 , 12b , and in the Berryfield mosaic ) , a rosette is found in the small squares at the corners of the grid . |
| 22 | Most colleges are walled or fenced with guards at the gates . |
| 23 | That will guarantee that the guards at the gates let you through . |
| 24 | After substituting strong infantry guards at the fords , in place of the cavalry-men , almost the entire Scots mounted force formed up and rode off , in companies , southwards , up the long hill of Scremerston Brae , to disappear eventually over the ridge into deeper Northumberland . |
| 25 | ‘ My aim is to establish a framework for the use of information technology in BNFL , ’ she explained , ‘ to raise its visibility in the Company and to establish the future roles of the Central IT Unit , CMS and the IT units at the sites . ’ |
| 26 | It is equally important to see that the fence is well braced laterally with tripods at the ends and every 30 yards along its length . |
| 27 | All 32 of the low-cost , semi-detached and terraced homes at The Elms , in Marton Grove , have been snapped up and there is a lengthy waiting list should any of the prospective buyers pull out . |
| 28 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 29 | This was in evidence at Spitalfields and again during Dr Owen Beattie 's 1981–6 examination of three seamen from the Franklin Arctic expedition of 1845–8 , particularly the corpse of John Torrington ( d. 1846 ) which had ties at the elbows , wrist , ankles and big toes . |
| 30 | In colliding plane wave problems , what is essentially a coordinate singularity for a single wave is transformed into a fold singularity prior to the collision by the presence of curvature singularities at the points and . |