Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 2 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | She thought bitterly of the spots she of ten got at the comers of her mouth or across her forehead . |
| 4 | The evangelical movement within the Church of England , from the royal proclamation of 1787 issued at the instigation of William Wilberforce , aimed at stirring up the vigilant suppression of " vice " and attacked pastimes even when they were not breaking the sabbath . |
| 5 | A mean of the two with a multiplier of four arrived at a figure of two hundred and thirteen thousand , eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence . |
| 6 | Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control . |
| 7 | The government 's programme for 1992 aimed at a rate of gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth of 6.5 per cent , a reduction in the rate of inflation to 6-7 per cent and a strengthening of the country 's external payments position . |
| 8 | A touring exhibition of 200 drawings covering the career of Joseph Beuys from 1936 until his death in 1986 opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , towards the end of this month ( 21 February-4 May ) . |
| 9 | FOUR musicians who began playing together at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986 play at the next Darlington Music Society concert on March 14 . |
| 10 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 11 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 12 | She came to England in 1904 to study at the London School of Economics , where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the development of New South Wales , gaining a D.Sc . |
| 13 | In Derby itself a decision had also been taken in 1975 to look at the use of APL for providing management information via on-line access of any of the personnel files available . |
| 14 | The industry 's crisis led to a nationwide blockade of ports by UK fishermen in 1981 protesting at the importing of foreign fish . |
| 15 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 16 | The association 's first conference in 1983 looked at the needs and rights of black children in care . |
| 17 | began his malting career in 1927 working at the maltings in Barton-on-Humber , owned by . |
| 18 | To what extent this is the case is a matter for debate ; however , the fact that trade with the developing nations is intended to play some part is indicated by the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981–5 and for the Period Ending in 1990 adopted at the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , which envisage ‘ [ the development ] , on a long-term and equitable basis , [ of a ] mutually beneficial exchange of goods … with developing countries ’ ( in Koshelev : 1982 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 19 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 20 | There have been sixteen drug regulatory actions worldwide against triazolam since 1980 aimed at the manufacturer 's recommended doses . |
| 21 | I turned and looked at the subtly tarted , much breathed-upon 300 sitting at the kerb , then made a show of sizing up Yvonne . |
| 22 | This far exceeds more recent estimates for 1983 given at the On-line conference in December . |