Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] [noun prp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COLIN Jackson , a disappointment at the Barcelona Olympics , beat American silver medallist Tony Dees in the men 's high hurdles at the Zurich Grand Prix athletics meeting last night . |
| 2 | In addition to building contract locomotives and rolling stock at the Sotteville workshops in Rouen , which employed some 2,000 men , Buddicom also carried out similar construction for the Orléans–Tours and Amiens–Boulogne railways , forerunners of the Paris–Orléans and Nord railway systems . |
| 3 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 4 | Anyhow — it was Lyles at play or post work recreation when they gathered two teams together on 3rd May and had a good game of football at the Cumbernauld Sports Centre . |
| 5 | Since the bulk of the tea at the Calcutta auctions is low medium quality , the dual auction has a disproportionate impact on tea prices generally , and on London prices especially . |
| 6 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 7 | The first step is an interview at the RAF Careers Information Office and sitting for an induction test to gauge the individual 's suitability for the RAF . |
| 8 | A man was actually charged with the crime at a Glasgow police station after walking in out of the blue and making a confession . |
| 9 | Talking in Perth , the 37-year-old all-rounder fired a broadside at the England selectors and captain Graham Gooch . |
| 10 | He started his career working as a maltster at the Paddock maltings at Gainsborough in 1949 . |
| 11 | The Iraqi delegation at the Jeddah talks was led by Izzat Ibrahim , Vice-Chair of the powerful Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) . |
| 12 | On May 24 the head of the US delegation at the CFE negotiations in Vienna told allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) that US-Soviet talks in Washington had failed to resolve key issues pertaining to the CFE treaty . |
| 13 | After her first engagement at the Alice Springs School of the Air , she and her lady-in-waiting , Anne Beckwith-Smith consoled each other . |
| 14 | In the same year , when a judge confronted with a boy burglar at the London Sessions was to be found pontificating against the cinema as ‘ a grave danger to the community ’ which was ‘ responsible for the downfall of many young people ’ , the prosecutor jokingly remarked that ‘ it was perhaps an example of retributive justice that one of the houses broken into belonged to a cinematograph proprietor ’ . |
| 15 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 16 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 17 | Last night just days after management at the Darlington Arts Centre said there would be no space in the autumn programme for the festival Darlington Council 's recreation committee chairman , Labour councillor Dot Long , said the town 's Campaign for Real Ale could count on the venue . |
| 18 | He said that , travelling with his father to the kraals , he had the chance to watch the religious dances of the black tribes ; Grace thinks it was later , after the family had left Rustenburg , that John first saw the dancing at the Johannesburg mines . |
| 19 | He beat to take the coveted first prize in a hard-fought battle at the Sneyd Arms , Sneyd Green . |
| 20 | With the Queen at the Braemar Games . |
| 21 | THE Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre will use , for the first time in Britain , puppets hand-crafted in the Japanese style Bunraku , to present Andersen 's The Snow Queen at the Midlands Arts Centre , Cannon Hill Park , Birmingham ( 021 440 3838 ) , until Jan 3 . |
| 22 | In 1865 he became foreman erector at the Inverness workshops of the Highland Railway , under William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , and works manager in the following year . |
| 23 | Over half-a-century after Douglas , David Acfield , also of Essex , took part in another combat sport at the Mexico Olympics . |
| 24 | And Britain 's golden girl at the Barcelona Olympics , farmer 's daughter Sally Gunnell , is rewarded for her thrilling 400m hurdles win with the MBE . |
| 25 | And here Britain may be the spectre at the Strasbourg feastings . |
| 26 | Later in the month I visited Strains of War at the Greenwich Citizens Gallery . |
| 27 | That leaves Daley Thompson as the sole survivor of the British men 's team at the Montreal Olympics still at the top . |
| 28 | Only Beerbaum , a member of the winning German team at the Seoul Olympics on Almox Classic Touch , his Horse of the Year Show Grand Prix winner , and Holland 's Piet Raymakers with Optiebeurs Ratina were clear first time . |
| 29 | This will take place at the Midlands Arts Centre at 5pm on Thursday 3 October , and the discussion will be led by Terry Staples , who programmes the childrens films for the London Film Festival , and Lewis Rudd , Controller Young Peoples ' Programmes at Central Television , with other invited educationalists and childrens ' programme makers . |
| 30 | Boccia is a high-precision game of Italian origin which resembles the French sport of boule , and the quartet going to the Barcelona Paralympics are confident of improving on Britain 's fifth place at the Seoul Games . |