Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are keen for their children to be educated but despair at the kind of education they receive . |
| 2 | He was named as winner at the annual Newspaper Industry Awards held in London on Tuesday night . |
| 3 | It is thought that development at the chosen site could endanger wildlife . |
| 4 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 5 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 6 | Kenneth is an atheist and Uncle Hamish , who has a reflecting telescope cast and ground at the glass works but never uses his private observatory , espouses a brand of condemnationist Christianity that replaces caritas with anathemata . |
| 7 | A self-confessed socialist , Cipriani duly supported all types of social reform , the mention of which was viewed as subversion at the time , and his record as a fighter against all forms of injustice is impressive : |
| 8 | Corporation tax on capital gains made by companies will be charged as income at the normal corporation tax rate ( 35 per cent or 29 per cent ) . |
| 9 | In both , ‘ irrationality ’ — in the form of authorial personality , unconscious contradiction or excess — is discovered as negation at the heart of the commercial and purposeful rationality of capitalist production and bourgeois ideology . |
| 10 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 11 | The bids confirmed that they were best to hang on to them and they will now be refurbished and pole-mounted at the entrance to the Museum . |