Example sentences of "[noun prp] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sir : Terry Coleman reports ( 5 October ) the speech by Andrew Neil at a Fabian fringe meeting , in which he described the BBC licence fee as a poll tax and suggested that it was indistinguishable from the community charge . |
| 2 | The ETB 's Car Park awards were presented in London on Tuesday at a glittering ceremony attended by the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 3 | The detectives were momentarily stunned before Sergeant Bird' at a discreet signal from Montgomery , began to intone the caution in a deadpan voice . |
| 4 | ‘ However , a consortium led by its management reached agreement with Brent Walker at a higher price . |
| 5 | That was the view of Swansea team manager and former international Roger Blyth after Jones had just edged his personal battle against Llanelli 's Rupert Moon at a packed Stradey Park . |
| 6 | The volatility of the situation in Kashmir was impressed upon Singh at an early stage of his premiership when , in early December , the daughter of the central Home Affairs Minister was kidnapped by Moslem secessionists [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 7 | Within 2.5km ( 1½ miles ) the road forks and the right-hand branch dips across a hollow towards Schwendi ; but continue forward , climbing on the left-hand ( main ) road which ascends towards Goldiwil at a higher level with even more rewarding views . |
| 8 | I went through Hardy at an early age |
| 9 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |
| 10 | Not that Uttley was allowed to completely forget his rugby past — also competing is fellow ‘ crumbly ’ Andy Ripley who , after taking the Ergo up in recent months , almost overtook Uttley at a recent head-to-head in a London gymnasium . |
| 11 | All I know is that every Friday at a set hour he comes and puts the money into my hands . |
| 12 | In March , the 21-year-old collected his Gold Award certificate from Falklands war veteran , Simon Weston at a special ceremony at St James 's Palace attended by HRH The Prince Philip . |
| 13 | It was won by Count Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion at an average speed of 59 kph ( 37mph ) . |
| 14 | Two pensioners celebrate their wedding on Saturday at a top nightclub . |
| 15 | Mrs Hymes , of Saltney , Chester , will receive her freedom from Lord Mayor Margaret Byatt at a special Pentice Court at the Town Hall . |
| 16 | The ANC indicated that it was prepared to meet Inkatha at a multiparty meeting in the context of the National Peace Accord [ see p. 38422 ] , but expressed unwillingness to hold bilateral talks , arguing that previous meetings had failed to produced effective results [ see pp. 37951-52 ] . |
| 17 | A videotape made by the JNA had been broadcast on Jan. 25 , purporting to show Spegelj at a private meeting boasting about Croatian arms purchases from Hungary , and discussing plans to kill JNA officers . |
| 18 | In the Tertiary period , weathering produced a deep regolith ( Fitzpatrick , 1963 ) , the remnants of which exist in the Outer Hebrides at a few sites protected from severe glacial erosion ( Glentworth , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Is LTP at an individual synapse a graded or an all-or-none event ? |
| 20 | When introduced by the Mirage Hotel 's Bob Halloran at a recent press conference as ‘ America 's greatest promoter ’ , King instantly corrected him . |
| 21 | The scheme will work with clubs either selling their tickets back to the WRU at a fixed rate or by becoming involved in profit-sharing . |
| 22 | HIS Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama , Tanzin Gyatso , is to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of St Andrews on 14 May at a special ceremony in the Younger Graduation Hall . |
| 23 | She met Sebastian at a political rally . |
| 24 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 25 | Obviously I will send this to both of you and if David is back in England at an appropriate time he might like to join me in discussions with the programmer . |
| 26 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
| 27 | The Platform for a Democratic Slovakia formally split from PAV at an extraordinary PAV congress in Kosice on April 27 . |
| 28 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 29 | This is particularly the case with market research reports , most of which are extremely expensive , thus putting Scotland at an economic disadvantage in not having direct access to this material . |
| 30 | F. At an early stage the mill owners specialised in particular types of yarn and cloth . |