Example sentences of "[noun prp] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The award was presented by TV newsreader John Humphrys at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 2 | The book that covers all aspects of keeping Koi , including their health care and breeding , is the ‘ Interpet Encyclopaedia of Koi ’ published by Salamander at a cost of £19.98 . |
| 3 | If you are also interested in fish health , I recommend the Interpet Manual of Fish Health by Chris Andrews , Adrian Exell and Neville Carrington , also published by Salamander at a cost of £12 95 . |
| 4 | As I walked back from the bar with my second pint I caught sight of Karen and Dennis at a table in the corner . |
| 5 | From Gourette you can continue to climb , bending now sharply to the left on the way up to the Col d'Aubisque , though pausing above Gourette at a viewpoint called the Crêtes Blanches , where there is a hotel and , more to the point , a wonderful view back down over the ski village in its cirque as well as westwards to the peaks on the far side of the Ossau valley . |
| 6 | The instigator of this rival was the Town Clerk , Maj. Henry Coppock , Liberal and Dissenter , and his new school , the Stockport High School , eventually opened on 27th July 1857 , having been built on Dodge Hill at a cost of £1,250 . |
| 7 | The creation of the new presidency had been among the radical proposals announced by Gorbachev at a meeting of the CPSU central committee on Feb. 5-7 as part of a draft new party platform [ see pp. 37234-35 ] . |
| 8 | Her research is meticulous , she has some very interesting new sources ( notably Venetia 's letters to Montagu at a time when Asquith was writing three or four times a day to her , but subsequently destroying her replies to these letters ) , and she mostly writes sensitively . |
| 9 | do you wan na know how much money my mum spends in Sainsburys at a time ? |
| 10 | In 1517 David Cecil took a 21-year lease of land in Essendine at a rent of £18. 3s. 3d. ; not being the freeholder he was not mentioned in the muster , and there is no means of telling whether his global assessment of £46 at Tinwell embodied the profit of this farm which he very possibly sublet . |
| 11 | The short-cuts provided in weapon development were to lead to a paring of independence , stunting of British research and development capacity , and a strengthening of the anchor cables holding Britain in her position as an offshore island of the United States at a time when closer relations with Europe were becoming more compelling . |
| 12 | The Moslem President of Bosnia-Hercevgovina , Alija Izetbegovic , protested at the holding of the meeting which he saw as unrepresentative and as a move to split Moslems in the republic , and on Aug. 16 he announced that a referendum would be held on the future of Bosnia-Hercegovina at a date to be determined by Bosnia 's parliament . |
| 13 | Our picture , left , shows Fred Lansdown at a farewell party held in his honour , where he was presented with a carriage clock by P&O Cruises ( UK ) Finance Director , Martyn Lloyd ( left ) . |
| 14 | On a visit to England , Cameron 's Dad met Minerva Beaton at a dinner party arranged by Alexia and wound up marrying the cellist . |
| 15 | The day after tomorrow she was actually going to be with Lucy at a conference on ecology and the arts . |
| 16 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 17 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 18 | Speakers told the jokes on Friday at a dinner honouring a former Virginia representative , Stan Parris , who has said he may campaign for a congressional seat next year , the Washington Post reported yesterday . |
| 19 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 20 | Ashworth , originally from Manchester , was arrested at 3am on Saturday at a hotel in Jesmond , Tyne and Wear . |
| 21 | Fernhill Rise meets Fernhill Avenue at a T-junction . |
| 22 | A chance meeting with Dr Kathy Lang at a database user group and the subsequent investigation of Ventura led Tony Gamble to make the decision to give it a try . |
| 23 | The youth is accused of the shotgun killing of legal clerk Amaranath Bandaratilleke at a newsagent 's shop in Hammersmith , west London , on February 22 . |
| 24 | She watched with mounting fury as he danced the night away with Camilla Parker-Bowles at a polo ball held at Stowell Park , the Gloucestershire estate owned by Lord Vestey . |
| 25 | He scored 48,892 runs for Hampshire at an average of 48.84 , and , in all first-class cricket , he accumulated no less than 55,061 ( average 47.67 ) , leaving him fourth in the world rankings . |
| 26 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
| 27 | Now what we 've got here , if you look at the F T for ten thousand in force policies , we 've got a significant jump in January and February at a time when our budget posting was down below budget . |
| 28 | IRA bombers were probably responsible for two nights of blasts on Tyneside at a gas depot and Esso oil terminal say Northumbria police . |
| 29 | They were painters , perhaps , or poets , perhaps , casual acquaintances picked up by friendly Sebastian at a publisher 's party in Bedford Square . |
| 30 | He came into the department in Orkney at a time of crisis , his remit to operate on a shoestring budget , and to repair social work 's damaged reputation . |