Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure , but after further treatments that included cholecystoscopy , endoscopic sphincterotomy , and percutaneous cholecystolithotomy 11 patients had a gall bladder free of stones . |
| 2 | Only six of the 13 patients had a clear gall bladder at the end of the first procedure . |
| 3 | The walls seem to meet overhead to block out the sky and a chill wind blows as we approach the impasse at the head of the gully . |
| 4 | I explained about the impasse at the door of the horse car . |
| 5 | The baseball fan at the beginning of the century — free of the possibly inhibiting influence of women spectators and close enough to the playing field in those tiny ball parks to take immediate action against erring players or umpires — was , by all accounts , an abysmal churl . |
| 6 | To understand the challenge to the papacy that this scene represents , we need to look at the structure of the traditional Church and also at popular religion at the beginning of the thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Evidence of speed at the time of the offence can be established from the length of skid marks , the severity of any impact damage or from witnesses etc . |
| 8 | The expression to be considered in this section stands in splendid isolation at the end of the subsection . |
| 9 | Having opened with an 83 , Moodie yesterday returned a 78 in which she was cheered by the news from home that she had been awarded a golf scholarship at the University of Hawaii . |
| 10 | Now on a scholarship at the University of Hawaii , young Michael was first to break par over a sun-drenched Belvoir Park course when he posted a splendid 4-birdie 70 in this qualifying competition . |
| 11 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 12 | She threw the sponge at the taps in disgust , and registered the peal of the doorbell at the same time . |
| 13 | But this argument assumes that there is some value in separating the issue of entitlement to apply for judicial review from the question of entitlement to a remedy at the end of the day . |
| 14 | A glance at the percentages of synonyms shows that even when the file is only 20 per cent packed , almost 10 per cent of the file will be stored as synonyms . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , changes constantly occur as is shown by a cursory glance at the development of local government services in Britain . |
| 16 | A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading . |
| 17 | On your right glance at the windows of the palace of 1493 . |
| 18 | If you are unfamiliar with these , you may be uncertain as to how to select a suitable microphone from the many different kinds which are available , as a glance at the windows of your local electronics store will show you . |
| 19 | Sometimes these similarities are quite obvious : the ferocious teeth of a predatory dinosaur are a sure indication of hunting habits , with hardly a glance at the fangs of living mammalian carnivores . |
| 20 | A glance at the pages of Gudok , the organ of the railwaymen , will show the style and problems of a central newspaper at this time . |
| 21 | A microscope is essential for their proper study , but even with a hand lens a glance at the surface of a bryozoan colony reveals a number of tiny openings . |
| 22 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |
| 23 | ‘ Er , he pleads not guilty m' lud , ’ interjected the defence lawyer , throwing an anxious glance at the man in the dock as he resumed his seat . |
| 24 | However , even a cursory glance at the output of the information industry shows that fitness for purpose is not always considered carefully enough in designing new products . |
| 25 | A glance at the inscription around the front face of the lens will tell you the focal length and the maximum f , or aperture number . |
| 26 | From a swift glance at the back of a person 's head I can at once estimate the intelligence and sexuality of that person . |
| 27 | But Anya makes no comeback , apart from a quick , razor-sharp glance at the back of Rainbow 's head . |
| 28 | A GLANCE at the provision for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the president 's budget for 1994 reveals nothing unusual . |
| 29 | There is a rich seam of ‘ Europeanism ’ running through fascist thought , as a quick perusal of Nazi newspapers or a glance at the memoirs of British fascists like Diana Mosley reveals . |
| 30 | A glance at the map of Ireland immediately raises the question ‘ Why was the plant there in the first place ? ’ |