Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wherever they were , they could n't help sensing the presence of the man with the tent at the far end of the bank ; it was there with them as they crossed the field and pushed through the hedge , in the musty smell of nettles and the white lumps raised on their skin , in the bramble scratches , and the brown fungus that hung from dead trees Libby felt it but she was also attracted by the thought of someone who was ill , someone she could help or look after , like the white mice or the jackdaw with the damaged wing . |
| 2 | Seizing the opportunity at the right moment , he will link together a series of strikes , probably involving kicks , in an attempt to break through and score points . |
| 3 | Among other devices , the minority would separate from the majority at the annual election of the Magistrates and Councillors , and each faction would make separate elections . |
| 4 | And although the scheme has achieved its initial objectives it presently has 85 students at 11 organisations with the majority at the National Audit Office the Institute ‘ may need to re-examine its general approach to industrial and commercial organisations ’ , if it hopes to extend the range of its training opportunities . |
| 5 | New recruits to Medau came forward after visiting the stand at the Royal Norfolk Show , and more joined after a Promotions Week in the Lowestoft area organised by Marlene McGee and Jane Fisk , with Come-and-Try sessions and demonstrations by Oulton Broad class members . |
| 6 | That is to say that Middle C , at 256Hz , has its true pitch represented on the guitar at the first fret , second string . |
| 7 | Which makes the guitar at the top right in our main picture a very rare beast indeed , and an expensive one ; these days , a Style 4 as fine as this might easily outprice an original ‘ 59 Les Paul Standard . |
| 8 | This power to ‘ speak ’ to the worshipper at a deep level is sufficient to justify its use alongside the reading of Scripture and the preaching of the Word of God . |
| 9 | Burun decided to mention the conversation to the Sechem at a suitable opportunity . |
| 10 | In the symmetry consensus , the simple consensus is converted to a palindrome based on the most frequent base at each symmetrical position , i.e. in the right half site , the base at the first position is not conserved , however , an A is found at the symmetrical position in the left half-site in all four sites , hence , the first position in the right half site is a T in the symmetry consensus . |
| 11 | When he appeared in the play The Hunting of the Snark at the Royal Albert Hall before the Duchess of York in 1987 , he remained sober . |
| 12 | The revaluation at a common date has helped , as has agreement in practice to arrive at comparable results . |
| 13 | The trial at the High court in Glasgow of the two youths accused of murdering Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon has been adjourned . |
| 14 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 15 | Jack Millar , Stoddard Templeton 's Sales Administration Director , accepted the award at a special reception at the exhibition held in the Galleon Bar of the Winter Gardens . |
| 16 | Dr Ion , head of BNFL 's research and development team at Springfields , was presented with the award at the fifth annual dinner of the North West branch . |
| 17 | He collected the award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony in London with his partner , former Middlesbrough solicitor Bob Mortimer . |
| 18 | It was named the biggest flop of 1992 by the British Turkey Federation which presents the award at an annual charity luncheon . |
| 19 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 20 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 21 | Messrs and both retire by rotation from the Board at the Annual General Meeting and , being eligible , offer themselves for re-election . |
| 22 | Last year , Durham swept the board at the National Boys ' Clubs championships , winning all four team events and claiming two individual gold medals in a superb performance . |
| 23 | Mr. Hogan retires from the Board at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting in accordance with the Articles of Association and , being eligible , offers himself for reappointment . |
| 24 | The rate of shell growth was determined by measuring and marking the edge of the shell at a recorded time , returning the mussels to their natural habitat , then remeasuring the shell dimensions after 1–5 years of in situ growth . |
| 25 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 26 | Following the donation at the United Reform Church , in Whiting Street , Bury , she said the money was a tribute to local slimmers who had developed cancer in the past year . |
| 27 | The group stayed at the Stafford Moat House Hotel and spent the afternoon at an outdoor saloon stock car racing circuit [ Graham promised that heated cover would be provided ! ] |
| 28 | The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991 , at the usual venue on the South Bank in London , with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the nearby Royal Festival Hall . |
| 29 | Karen Grant from Northampton was awarded the money at the High Court in London for injuries she suffered in the crash more than five years ago . |
| 30 | They are more likely to go to your door with the money at the ready . |