Example sentences of "[noun] at [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otakar Motej , Chairman of the Supreme Court , who represented Havel during the Federal Assembly 's discussion of his proposals , expressed disappointment at the deputies ' lack of trust in the President . |
| 2 | THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it must also be said that the new revenue at the monks ' disposal served to hasten the building of the new choir of the cathedral , which ( as we shall see ) was one of the major achievements of Anselm 's archiepiscopate . |
| 4 | Executives need to know how to lay on services that are outside normal agency routine : how to set up a direct marketing operation ; organize an effective exhibition ; or lay on a cabaret at a salesmen 's conference . |
| 5 | Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 . |
| 6 | ‘ All boxers were weighed in , but because there was no chance of getting through a 28bout programme at a workmen 's club in one night , we decided to take half the bouts to another venue two nights later . |
| 7 | A study at the Children 's Hospital of Pittsburgh from 1912 to 1967 found that a palpable pyloric mass was detected in 80% of cases . |
| 8 | Anthony Smith , a lawyer at the Consumers ' Association , says it would be ‘ incredibly simple ’ to amend copyright law to allow in CDs from countries with copyright protection comparable to Britain 's . |
| 9 | However , the payment of premiums creates a pool of funds at the companies ' disposal , awaiting claims to be made against it . |
| 10 | STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 11 | Even many voters who dislike and fear the Labour Party are tempted to register their disgust at the Tories ' failures by voting Liberal Democrat . |
| 12 | I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation . |
| 13 | During one of Seb 's evening drinking sessions at the navvies ' camp he told Jacob that Anna was to marry someone else . |
| 14 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
| 15 | In March a proposal at the Commissions 's 46th session [ see p. 37888 ] which had sought to limit the powers of the Commission 's special envoys ( rapporteurs ) , was deferred to the 47th session , scheduled for February 1991 . |
| 16 | In Shanghai at the Teachers ' University , new regulations issued on 10 November made it obligatory for students to do physical exercises before classes . |
| 17 | Although they registered their disapproval at the MPs ' vote with the Government , the council group leader , Richard Lyle , said : ‘ Alex Salmond has the clear backing of the Motherwell SNP council group as does the SNP parliamentary group . |
| 18 | The nurses like a laugh at the patients ' expense . |
| 19 | Around five thousand converged on the Commons to lobby their MPs and the Labour leader sought to step up the pressure on wavering conservatives at a pensioners ' rally . |
| 20 | Dr John Bradford was a judge at the Doctors ' Commons , a very highly respected man at the top of his profession , and Elizabeth , his wile , was well known for her hospitality . |
| 21 | During this time couples may have to buy the necessary equipment , reorganise the house , hand in a resignation , visit the child at the foster-parents ' or arrange to take a direct placement immediately at delivery and room-in on the postnatal ward . |
| 22 | He is now likely to be off the track until Deauville in mid-August , followed by a tilt at the Breeders ' Cup . |
| 23 | In 1972 Rata Quick formed an ‘ Elite Team ’ of 12 performers to represent Medau at the Women 's League of Health and Beauty Anniversary Festival at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 24 | The Northern Ireland squad will fly from Frankfurt to Vilnius later today and will take in a training session at the Lithuanians ' stadium in the evening . |
| 25 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 26 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 27 | The prince 's remarks follow massive public anxiety over the Duchess of York 's jetsetting antics at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 28 | In particular their student team 's victory over New Zealand Universities at the Students ' World Cup in France in 1988 announced their birth as a rugby nation . |
| 29 | Justin Pink was at the M4 junction before he remembered that he had forgotten to tell Debbie that it was a black-tie job at the Simpsons ' . |
| 30 | Remember how important it is to register the new mortgage at the Companies ' Registry within 21 days of completion . |