Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 A single glance at the crucified Christ , the worshipped corpse : a figure bent like a branch whose shape has changed in the stretching agony of fire .
2 Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members .
3 Age Concern Cleveland opened the leisure club at the New Albert , Grange Road , Middlesbrough , in January , amid widespread publicity and an official opening ceremony .
4 They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts .
5 Tea at the next Q.T. day will be provided by Outer Kent and Essex .
6 Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by Outer Surrey .
7 Tea at the next Q.T. Day will be provided by outer Kent and Essex .
8 Tea at the next Q.T. Day 10th October will be provided by Inner Kent .
9 In June 1916 he was released to join the research department at the Royal Arsenal , Woolwich , working under ( Sir ) Robert Robertson [ q.v . ] .
10 Over 44 months 157 patients ( 96 boys ) who had suffered one or more events out of hospital and received mouth to mouth resuscitation were referred for clinical management to our department at the Royal Brompton Hospital .
11 LEST WE FORGET : ex-servicemen lead the cross-laying ceremony at the renovated Belfast Garden of Remembrance where the two Army Medical Corps victims of the Musgrave Park Hospital atrocity were specially remembered
12 • Harlston YFC won the stock judging trophy at the Royal Norfolk Show .
13 Ruth 's just returned with Stephen from Moscow , where he underwent three months ' intensive therapy at the pioneering Valentine Dikoul Clinic .
14 Kelso clerk of the course Johnnie Fenwicke-Clennell was fined £150 by the Jockey Club 's disciplinary committee yesterday for inadequately briefing staff who incorrectly dolled off a fence at the 3 October meeting .
15 An inmate was beheaded by a fellow prisoner on Aug. 11 during rioting at the high-security Puerto de Santa Maria prison near Cadiz , bringing the death toll among prisoners to four in a summer of riots in Spain 's overcrowded prisons .
16 Earlier , the Princess unveiled a plaque at the recently-completed Field Lane Hostel for homeless men in Kirkby before visiting Acorn Venture Farm in Kirkby .
17 AYOUTH was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure at the Old Bailey yesterday for the murder of baby Christopher Palmer while the mother was convicted of cruelty but cleared of murder and manslaughter .
18 Demonstrations by members of the majority ethnic-Albanian population appeared to have been sparked off by concern that , given the position taken by the Serbian delegation at the extraordinary LCY congress , Kosovar Albanians were to be denied a multiparty political system in the province which would allow Albanian nationalist parties to challenge Serbian domination .
19 As leader of the British delegation at the 1927 Geneva naval disarmament conference , he resisted American claims to ‘ parity ’ which in reality threatened British naval inferiority .
20 Meanwhile , John Buckley , striker for second-division Rotherham , was in a ‘ stable ’ condition at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital , Sheffield , after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a blood clot on his brain .
21 He rightly defined a potential market for Tudor-style post-and-beam homes full of nooks and crannies and launched the Heritage range at the 1981 Homeworld Exhibition in Milton Keynes .
22 His future career then seemed uncertain : he qualified for the bar at the Inner Temple , ran a hostel for disadvantaged boys , Edghill House , Sydenham ( 1913–15 ) , and then began schoolmastering at Strand School , Brixton .
23 Scores of dazzling white Moorish dwellings stare down from this hilltop village at the shimmering Mediterranean , protected by the impressive peaks of the Sierra Cabrera .
24 He had stopped twice on the way up , at Norman Cross for lunch at the Merrie England cafe , and at Dave 's Diner near Retford for a cup of tea .
25 After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 .
26 So while the Citizens Theatre Company will present a production specific to the festival that week , the Tron will play host to 7:84 with a new Jackie Kay play , Clyde Unity will premiere a new John Binnie work , Gay Sweatshop will bring new product to the Arches , the Scottish Youth Theatre will present work at the Old Athenaeum and Tramway will programme international groups .
27 I was trained for my new work at the main ARP centre in the Fulham Road .
28 Determined to follow in the stellar footsteps of Paul Morley , Chris Bohn and Ian Penman , I had spent hours sculpting a live review of Mark Stewart And The Mafia at the then-vibrant Camden Electric Ballroom .
29 ‘ I must admit — ’ Charles picked at the end of his thumb and frowned out of the smoked glass office window at the leaden September sky beyond ‘ — I 'm not sure precisely what Guy 's up to .
30 ‘ My dining room faces north and is difficult to heat , ’ he had said to Ianthe , and now he stood in it looking out of the window at the cold March day , fully conscious of his words .
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