Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [n mass] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita , a prevention for blindness co-ordinator at the London RNIB , received here cheque for £1000 at a reception in her honour . |
| 2 | There will also be a scheme of voluntary severance for staff at the company 's London head office . |
| 3 | These studies were to be carried out collaboratively between regional and district officers , and to be completed within six months , to minimize the uncertainty for staff at the two hospitals . |
| 4 | A RARE 1966 World Cup Final programme autographed by the England team went under the hammer for £500 at an auction this weekend . |
| 5 | Nick Webb , for Simon & Schuster and Pocket , has secured two books by Ridley Pearson with a bid of £93,500 at an auction conducted by Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann for Writers House in the US . |
| 6 | Dozens of birds have been killed by what 's believed to be an outbreak of botulism.Experts at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust have been carrying out post mortems to confirm the cause of the deaths.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 7 | He is Warden of Wadham College , Oxford , and sometime Professor of Statistics at the LSE . |
| 8 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 9 | The neck itself is made from Canadian maple and feels fairly slim for a five — 45mm across the nut , with a depth of just 23mm and a width of 60mm at the twelfth fret . |
| 10 | MFI is selling its entire holding of 20pc at a huge return on its investment of £1m . |
| 11 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 12 | MOSELEY are having to take drastic steps to improve their finances as they face a deficit of £110,000 at The Reddings , but the job of Alex Keay , their salaried coach , is not in danger . |
| 13 | Without the support of people at the top , no one is likely to confront organisational defensive routines . |
| 14 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 15 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 16 | Vandals smashed a stained glass window worth £100 at a house in Willow Road , Northallerton . |
| 17 | Not only were other Sussex towns strongly characterised by the number of £2 assessments , usually on goods , but Bury St Edmunds and Newbury , also county centres , had a smaller proportion of people at the bottom of the heap than their immediate neighbourhoods , though at the latter , the suburban hamlet of Speenhamland was crowded with poor . |
| 18 | That such discrepancies arise is due to compilation of data at a local scale and its subsequent incautious use to derive estimates at a regional scale . |
| 19 | The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time . |
| 20 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 21 | He twisted in the saddle to see a column of infantry at the crossroads of Quatre Bras . |
| 22 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 23 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm one of the team of people at the Foreign Office that will be constantly working on Michael 's case . |
| 25 | Lyell 's second volume raised the question of the geographical distribution of species at a time when Darwin was well placed to study this phenomenon . |
| 26 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 27 | You know , that there was a group of people at the top , Ministers , perhaps , who had an interest in keeping relations between Copts and Moslems on the boil . |
| 28 | For good measure , up popped Mr Peter Stibbard , Director of Statistics at the Department of Employment . |
| 29 | Mr Michael Rowley , finance director , said the group had foreseen the problems and had made an effort to increase income from interest , which came in at £64,000 as against a charge of £78,000 at the halfway stage last year . |
| 30 | From 1321 to 1325 he was also in charge of works at the royal castle there . |