Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kopyion sat on a chair , staring out of half-blind eyes at the screens and eating dates from a little box on his lap . |
| 2 | The following table shows the proportions of non-publishing researchers at the universities which have a major interest in Scottish geology . |
| 3 | The following table shows the proportions of non-publishing researchers at the universities which have a major interest in Scottish geology . |
| 4 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 5 | The League also refused to allow concessions to unemployed supporters at the turnstiles . |
| 6 | In spite of some side-swipes at the theories of Raymond Federman , Barth 's own fictional practice is not necessarily at odds with that of the latter . |
| 7 | They sat in the littered corners at the ends , beggars in various states of desperation waiting mutely for handouts . |
| 8 | Tom Bull-Dwyer 's middle managers stared unhappily out through the forest of tangled masts at the Needles , which seemed to be travelling past at a brisk walking pace . |
| 9 | The cemetery was a square plot of ground , enclosed by a high wall with ornamental turrets at the corners . |
| 10 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
| 11 | Community wildlife officer Dave Muir and Ann Lolley of the Tidy Britain Group join local people to plant British wildflowers at the Children 's Forest in Pennywell , Sunderland , on Wednesday . |
| 12 | News of these defeats was received by telegram at Saint Cloud on the night of 4 — 5 August , to be followed the next day by news of two further defeats at the battles of Reichshoffen and Forbach . |
| 13 | This ant spits painful substances at the eyes of any potential trespasser on to its territory , but through slow acclimatization to her presence , the community she studied learnt to accept her presence without fear and therefore without attack . |
| 14 | Some customers at the shows ask the strangest questions . |
| 15 | They provided the work , they built the villages , they negotiated ( from strength ) the social relations at the pits , they encouraged a particular form of unionization , and they discouraged ( implicitly if not explicitly ) Labour party activism in any form . |
| 16 | Bands usually look better if a few needles at the edges are knitted in stocking stitch which will roll and give a neat firm edge . |
| 17 | In the serial Superman was left in the final frames pushing desperately with his outstretched arms at the sides of a tunnel melting into a hot , dangerous , black treacle-like substance which threatened to engulf him . |
| 18 | He indicated the twelve carved thrones at the edges of the clearing , set into the immense Trees . |
| 19 | In fact the existence of code-switching is not incompatible with the continuum hypothesis , since speakers could presumably switch between different lects at the extremes of their own range . |
| 20 | If we were to advertise a job today — a labouring job in the foundry — I guarantee we 'd have two hundred black and brown faces at the gates tomorrow morning , and maybe one white . ’ |
| 21 | But colleagues at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital recall unpleasant happenings at the nurses ' home which they shared with Allitt . |
| 22 | She herself , praise be , had never been in a run with her … one night 's charity performance of Private Lives at the Arts Theatre had been quite enough , thank you . |
| 23 | He heard strange clicking noises at the windows and footsteps coming up the steps . |
| 24 | The main built-up areas at the hearts of the 228 functional regions recognized still account for 61.6 per cent of the total population , despite losing nearly 1.5 million people during the preceding ten years . |
| 25 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 26 | Their instructors will be the real experts at the police driving school ; it 's part of a pilot scheme and if it 's successful it could be extended throughout the area , and it 's free . |
| 27 | The interacting actors of ( i ) a newly effective market among the young , of ( ii ) some culturally effective initiatives by the young , of which many were quickly taken up by the market , of ( iii ) a more general unwillingness by the market , in conditions of high competition , to observe the limits and pressures of established cultural reproduction , and yet ( iv ) the alarm of state and other established institutions at the sources and consequences of such cultural production , have combined to produce a situation of quite remarkable asymmetry . |
| 28 | All 32 of the low-cost , semi-detached and terraced homes at The Elms , in Marton Grove , have been snapped up and there is a lengthy waiting list should any of the prospective buyers pull out . |
| 29 | He was sentenced to six months at the Narcotics Rehabilitation Center of the Chino State Penitentiary . |
| 30 | For most Germans it was bewildering that they should suffer such losses at the hands of a country that had not existed for over 100 years . |