Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . |
| 2 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 3 | Accounting and Business Research is edited by Bob Parker , Professor of Accountancy at the University of Exeter and Chris Nobes , Coopers & Lybrand Professor of Accounting at the University of Reading . |
| 4 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 5 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 6 | Remembering the humiliation of arriving at the Geneva summit in 1955 in a plane with only two engines , he took the biggest and longest-range jet of its day , the TU 114 , to New York . |
| 7 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 8 | He looked down at their faces — those he could discern in that sea of tall hats and paper , half-lost among the scaffolding : common faces , glowing with common avarice , indulging the common pleasure of gloating at the latecomers ' despair . |
| 9 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 10 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 11 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 12 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |
| 13 | This will have the advantage of coming at the beginning of a new financial year . |
| 14 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 15 | I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away . |
| 16 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 17 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
| 18 | Some preparation in nursing care and skills is obviously necessary before the full benefit of learning at the bedside can be derived . |
| 19 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 20 | This is not simply a question of looking at the differences in income , wealth , or educational opportunities between men and women or between different ethnic groups . |
| 21 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 22 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 23 | Are you still sort of staying at the same or |
| 24 | He just sort of glanced at the photos and then carried on talking . |
| 25 | Yes , well obviously we erm we hope that we 've put the team together that 's going to do the job , but having said that , there 's some handy looking teams around , I think the League is going to be pretty evened out erm at the end of the day , I do n't think erm you 're going to see too many people sort of struggling at the bottom end . |
| 26 | I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm |
| 27 | Get maximum press coverage and it looks good , but there is also equally a very considerable programme running , very gently sort of going at the community , working with the community , holding hands with the community and getting results erm a policy for for |
| 28 | You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person . |
| 29 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 30 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |