Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] at the turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quickening of political life ‘ demonstrated the increasingly fluid state of Russia at the turn of the century ’ ( Kochan ) . |
| 2 | This principle was recognised and sanctioned by the House of Lords at the turn of the century in the leading case of Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd [ 1897 ] AC 22 . |
| 3 | At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn . |
| 4 | During the wars with France at the turn of the nineteenth century , when the call came , more than 2,000 Highlanders volunteered for service with the colours . |
| 5 | It followed , therefore , that most of the military appointments to which Scottish freeholders and burgh councillors aspired were in the line infantry and to a lesser degree the cavalry , augmented during the wars with France at the turn of the century with numerous local military units of a temporary nature . |
| 6 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 7 | There was an informal academy of painters and sculptors , attended by Michelangelo , in Florence at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 10 | Imitators who marketed potassium permanganate as ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ ( and solutions of it as his fluid ) were the subject of litigation which reached its height in Australia at the turn of the century . |
| 11 | Her record of her rural childhood and young adult life in Britain at the turn of the century is a fund of sociological insights and is far more fascinating to read , and incomparably better written , than practically any genuinely sociological work of the time . |
| 12 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 13 | Shops opened in Stockton at the turn of the century and in Redcar in 1924 but closed in the 1960's due to a fall in demand . |
| 14 | For example , in York at the turn of the century Rowntree found that the second most common cause of poverty after low wages was the ‘ death of the chief wage-earner ’ , accounting for 28 per cent of all poor households and 16 per cent of all poor persons ( Rowntree , 1902 , p. 120 ) . |
| 15 | He was a forty-four-year-old with a light complexion for an African-born black , his grandfather having been a British Army major stationed in Kenya at the turn of the century . |
| 16 | Martin Fleischmann came to Utah at the turn of the year and , during January in particular , put a lot of effort into the experiments . |
| 17 | The head gardener at Chilton at the turn of the century , Charles Beckett , had a brother , Edwin , also a head gardener , and both men built exactly the same design of fruit house in their respective gardens . |