Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 2 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 3 | erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . |
| 4 | His would not have been the only provincial accent to assail the ears of Londoners at the time , but at least it would have lent his speech a touch of bucolic appeal , with its rolling Somerset post-vocalic ‘ r ’ sounds and a liberal sprinkling of ‘ v 's for ‘ f's and ‘ z's for ‘ S'S . |
| 5 | Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre . |
| 6 | Today 's highly competitive business world requires a great deal of capital at the lowest possible cost . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ I 'm bowling without a great deal of luck at the moment but I feel good about my game . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The new pattern introductions for Autumn 1993 created a great deal of excitement at the show , especially Hopscotch , Aquabatic , and Hyde Park in the new fine china collection , ’ said Tom . |
| 9 | Agreeing to the move , Lord Justice Glidewell said he was ‘ very conscious that there is a great deal of mistrust at the moment ’ . |
| 10 | Irene is in a great deal of pain at the moment her bad back is giving her trouble and she finds it difficult to walk . |
| 11 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 12 | Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps the prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started again ’ , speculates Francis Fukuyama , the US State Department official who started the latest fashion for this idea . |
| 14 | These changes in perception of distension at the lower end of the gut seem to be mirrored in the stomach . |
| 15 | Batkin et al. ( 1970 ) show that for rats there are problems of perception of sound at a later stage if temporary deprivation occurs at birth . |
| 16 | Many observers have noted how administration in new states consumed the bulk of revenue at the expense of investment and development ( Dumont 1966 ; First 1970 ; Bretton 1973 ; Amin 1973 ) . |
| 17 | Before it hatches , the developing larva inside can breathe through a ring of pores at the top of the egg , which allows air to reach it . |
| 18 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |
| 19 | CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 20 | ‘ I have never had to run so fast in a job in my life , and the incredible speed of things at the moment is all thanks to the recession , ’ he says . |
| 21 | If my memory serves me correctly , the very first public outing of the very first public train resulted in a fatality , and one at a mere 12 mph , though doubtless this seemed like the speed of light at the time . |
| 22 | The Germans will be put under pressure by a succession of ministers at the meeting on Wednesday . |
| 23 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 24 | Robert Capa was president of Magnum at the time , and active in its head office . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 27 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 28 | He has already had two sessions of surgery at the Royal . |
| 29 | If A Song to David , in which he attempted a new and regular form of the ode , was written on an upswing of creativity at the beginning of a psychotic episode , and the psalms translation made during convalescence afterwards , Jubilate Agno is particularly important because its internal dates strongly suggest it was composed during his confinement , and from day to day of his illness , during the period 27 July to 30 January 1763 , just before his release . |
| 30 | There was a rattle of bolts at the stout door : it opened and a military policeman stepped in |