Example sentences of "[adj] at the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not originally intended to make a great issue of the fact , but it is true to say that the pressure groups that study these matters in great detail are incensed at the way in which the orders have been introduced . |
| 2 | While appreciating better than the French journalists the improbability of direct plagiarism , English mathematicians were nonetheless indignant at the way in which the Academy had treated Smith . |
| 3 | Fields privately resented the way in which Branson had taken responsibility for the purchase of the first Virgin aircraft ; while Branson , for his part , grew increasingly alarmed at the way in which his new partner appeared to be running the rest of the company . |
| 4 | Hilary Armstrong , Labour 's education spokesman and MP for North-West Durham , said she was delighted at the news in a report from director of education Keith Mitchell . |
| 5 | Last night , the acting convener , Tommy Gorman , said the workforce was disgusted at the way in which the 67 men who had been made redundant had been treated and the fact they would receive the minimum statutory payoffs . |
| 6 | THE Conservative-controlled Stirling District has been told by the local MP , Michael Forsyth , that he is horrified at the way in which the council has handled a housing matter . |
| 7 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 8 | Like them , she looked dazzling at the show in Birmingham . |
| 9 | Up to 450 of the 500 staff will be made redundant at the laboratory in Leatherhead , Surrey , one of the country 's leading research centres on acid rain , and the remainder will be transferred . |
| 10 | She had felt so confident at the outset in her ability to keep track of time , but now it was beginning to desert her . |
| 11 | Bill Thompson and I , as the reporters who had seen the case through from start to finish , were invited officially to be present at the hanging in Regina Jail . |
| 12 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 13 | The magazine is now typeset at the office in Carlisle and has a readership of some eighteen thousand . |
| 14 | It stops short at the Palace in the west , and the Admiralty in the north . |
| 15 | CAMRA is also concerned at the way in which many keg beers are brewed and the ingredients used . |
| 16 | He said police were concerned at the rise in assaults 61 last year compared to 33 the previous year but 58 were detained shortly after the alleged crimes , indicating most victims knew their assailants and were not accosted by strangers . |
| 17 | But he said the union was concerned at the delay in setting up a Staff Commission . |
| 18 | King Charles II visited the troops on Leith Links and was resident at the time in the mansion of Lord Balmerino , Kirkgate . |
| 19 | Union members had turned out in such numbers because they were angry at the way in which they had to deliver services to the public without adequate resources . |
| 20 | If the right hon. Gentleman agrees with that , he should be ashamed at the way in which the Department is now trying to wriggle out of having a welfare role . |
| 21 | A place was available at the school in question , and the LEA had no ground under the 1980 Education Act for denying parental choice . |
| 22 | He still let his eyes run over her and Maggie was both embarrassed and shocked at the look in them . |
| 23 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 24 | The track is backed with ‘ Fast And Frightening ’ recorded live at the Cult In The Park festival last June . |
| 25 | I too was very worried at the increase in numbers of magpies . |
| 26 | The race itself was very well organised but I was absolutely amazed at the way in which the winning women were treated in comparison to the winning men during the prize giving ceremony later on . |
| 27 | They left the cottage , leaving a grateful if sad couple who were quite amazed at the way in which their problem had been solved . |
| 28 | ‘ I am frequently amazed at the change in them . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am frequently amazed at the change in them . ’ |
| 30 | We must of course remember that many English liberals continued to support Napoleon — see Gillray 's cartoon of English liberals incensed by the naval victories of Nelson ; one of these , William Hazlitt , was so amazed at the change in Wordsworth and Coleridge that he accused them , later , of swinging over ‘ as on a pivot , to the unclean side ’ . |