Example sentences of "[verb] at a [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 2 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 3 | The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting . |
| 4 | Speaking at an analysts ' breakfast in Chicago last week where Comdex Spring took place , Pieper alluded to such a breakthrough as ‘ removing the firewalls ’ between the various microprocessors . |
| 5 | On April 16th the Philippine Supreme Court decided that the three Cojuangcos could vote at a shareholders ' meeting on April 19th , although the shares themselves remain sequestered . |
| 6 | Her toddler Gareth Mr Ashworth 's son was missing and the hunt was extended to Scotland after the youngster was abandoned at a citizens ' advice bureau near Glasgow . |
| 7 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 9 | Electronic stencil cutters , offset litho machines and many audio.visual reproduction facilities are , in today 's circumstances , beyond the budget of small and medium-sized schools , but can be provided at a teachers ' centre for co.operative use . |
| 10 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 11 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 12 | The attempt to entice six male sperm whales out of Scapa Flow by playing them some fruity dialogue recorded at a whales ' hen night off the Azores has so far failed . |
| 13 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |