Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighteenth-century administration sought to protect those whom the intendant of Burgos called the ‘ wretched slaves ’ of the landlords : there were proposals to freeze rents at the 1770 level , to set up arbitration boards of peasants and landlords . |
| 2 | Eight of the bombers broke through the defences to launch torpedoes at the ‘ Ark ’ and at the battlecruiser ‘ Renown ’ , but without obtaining hits . |
| 3 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 4 | Both members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's European Right party , the MEPs shouted insults at the President of the Parliament , Enrique Baron , when he announced the measure barring the far-right party from leading delegations to Israel and Switzerland . |
| 5 | Today , these words embarrass officials at the department . |
| 6 | The 1986/87 Annual Report showed windsurfers with the subtitle ‘ The Emerging City ’ ; but the following year , in 1987/88 , the cover showed local kids milking cows at the Mudchute Farm . |
| 7 | In addition to the afternoon 's official programme , there were several extra events , all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre . |
| 8 | There have been a number of attempts to define languages at the assembler level which would be portable from one computer to another ; the compatible computer ranges of the previous section are , of course , one such attempt . |
| 9 | While parents visited stalls at the Easter fayre , children of Headley Nursery Club played on equipment at the Church Centre . |
| 10 | If , as expected , the 1,700 aggrieved names on the Feltrim syndicates appoint solicitors at the end of this month , then some 15% of all names would be part of such action groups . |
| 11 | The copperplates of some of the most famous of the artist 's prints , including ‘ Faust ’ , ‘ Self-portrait with feather in cap ’ , ‘ The Raising of Lazarus : arched plate ’ , ‘ The Pancake Woman ’ , ‘ Beggars receiving alms at the doors of an inn ’ , ‘ Jan Cornelis Sylvius ’ and ‘ Joseph and Potiphar 's wife ’ , are currently on show at Artemis and are selling extremely quickly to both private collectors ( one has bought the ‘ Beggars receiving alms at the doors of an inn ’ ) and institutions : the Rijksmuseum has already acquired a group which will be divided between the Rijksprentenkabinet , the Rembrandthuis and the Amsterdam Historical Museum . |
| 12 | Both factions held meetings at the end of June at which they elected new leaders : Geza Gimoti as general secretary of the Torgyan-led FKgP ( which had suspended Bela Nemeth ) and Laszlo Horvath as Chair of the breakaway FKgP Historical Section . |
| 13 | Whether overseas countries have pavilions at the show is surely not the point , what is important is the number of countries represented by the exhibits . |
| 14 | Some local education authorities assess children at the end of primary school in order to make allocations to secondary schools . |
| 15 | Thirty-one out of thirty-six City banks joined in this key venture and it was also from their group that the practice of banks holding accounts at the Bank of England and re-discounting through it developed towards the end of the century . |
| 16 | Bureaus , as Downs points out , are oligarchic in nature , with power , income and prestige reinforcing the authority of officials holding positions at the top of the hierarchy ( Downs 1967 , p. 58 ) . |
| 17 | DEMONSTRATORS protesting about water disconnections , high charges and huge pay awards greeted dignitaries at the opening of a new Anglian Water treatment works . |
| 18 | Mary Finocchiaro ( 1968 ) believes sound films have disadvantages at the early stages of learning . |
| 19 | In his model firms set prices at the end of period t - 1 to cover period t . |
| 20 | There were difficulties enforcing regulations at the Colombo slaughterhouse . |
| 21 | Schlieffen , whose peripatetic studies included stints at the Kunstakademies of Vienna and Düsseldorf , and who was a master student of A.R.Penck , paints compositions of figures or objects in which the main formal issue is an ever-changing , often dislocated relationship between subject and ‘ background ’ . |
| 22 | This is due to so many processors running applications at the same time and the numerical methods used for rounding off figures . |
| 23 | For instance , permission should be sought before lopping a branch from a tree which is known to be frequented by a Green Lady ; superstitious Derbyshire farmers plant primroses at the foot of such trees each Midsummer 's Eve , so as to be rewarded with wealth and longevity . |
| 24 | Majors , such as Land Securities and MEPC , have been hit severely and unjustly and Brixton Estate , a favourite in Armchair Investor , has lost a quarter of its value since this column recommended investors take profits at the end of August . |
| 25 | If customers have accounts at the hotel , the system keeps a track of all expenditure and payments . |
| 26 | Anglo-American Corporation announced on Nov. 11 that it was temporarily laying off between 4,000 and 5,000 workers without pay as part of its efforts to defuse tensions at the mine . |
| 27 | Alternative pathways at one level of description can be filtered hierarchically through attempts to build pathways at the next higher level . |
| 28 | At Owens College he had met Charles Frederick Cross [ q.v. ] and the two chemists joined forces at the Jodrell laboratory , Kew Gardens , with the aim of exploring the chemistry of cellulose , the major constituent of wood , cotton , flax , and paper . |
| 29 | TWO young golf partners hit holes-in-one at the same hole on the same round . |
| 30 | As her own people had done before their captivity , the newcomers laid petitions at the sorceress 's door , clandestinely , while by day the same Englishmen , from a safe distance , mocked and mimicked the bent hag and laughed loudly to show they were not afraid of her . |