Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And to top all of this , there will be competitions galore , with terrific holidays , goods and equipment to be won at a number of stands . |
2 | The official go-ahead from X100 , won at a meeting of Ford and Jaguar company chief company chiefs in Coventry late in October , has sent an unprecedented wave of optimism and excitement through Jaguar 's Browns Lane headquarters . |
3 | In Congress-ruled Gujarat , on the west coast , the state Health Minister , Mr Vallabhbhai was attacked at a meeting on Tuesday and died yesterday in hospital . |
4 | Rubbish will be sorted at a site in northern England and turned into commercial products including compost made from food scraps and paper and an array of items using recycled plastic . |
5 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
6 | She was educated at a boarding-school in Hipperholme , near Halifax . |
7 | Educated at a school in St Andrews and at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Lapworth graduated in 1893 from Mason College , Birmingham . |
8 | He was educated at a school in Ilkley and at Balliol College , Oxford . |
9 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
10 | The boundary between the core and the mantle is very sharp and is located at a depth of about 2900 km . |
11 | Figure 14.4 shows a number of entries concerned with ‘ land ’ and its variants and located at a variety of places in the main sequence . |
12 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
13 | Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes , MP for Wimbledon , who served as a medical officer in the Life Guards and was recalled in the Gulf war , protested at a reduction in the number of Foot Guard battalions . |
14 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
15 | The stand contained 4,100 seats , installed at a cost of 2d each , and incorporated the latest in spectator comfort . |
16 | In no time they were installed at a table by the window and being attended by a stately woman with an enormous bosom and a monument of granite-coloured hair . |
17 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
18 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
19 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
20 | A major obstacle to a comprehensive Cambodian peace agreement was lifted at a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in New York on Sept. 19 [ see p. 38389 for Aug. 26-29 SNC meeting in Pattaya , Thailand ] . |
21 | In that way , a parent may seize the guide in an emergency and be reminded at a glance of the relevant facts . |
22 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
23 | Only one main branch is permitted , along which shoots above branch level are spaced at a minimum of 15 centimetre intervals . |
24 | A big loss was suffered on the course in 1975 when 40 elm trees were felled at a cost of £1,400 owing to Dutch Elm Disease . |
25 | On March 27 , 1991 , the Communist Party of Great Britain , which had voted at a congress on Dec. 9 , 1990 , to abandon the principles of Marxism-Leninism and the policy of democratic socialism , published a draft constitution for the party which was to be renamed the Democratic Left . |
26 | In lanes 3 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 13 and 15 , CRP was added at a concentration of 15 nM . |
27 | After washing , 100 µl of anti-transferrin horseradish peroxidase conjugate in buffer was added at a dilution of 1 in 2000 and incubated for a further 60 minutes . |
28 | METHODS.DiI was dissolved at a concentration of 1% in ethanol and pressure-ejected onto the exposed mesenchyme , at a series of points around the wound margin , from a glass micropipette with a tip diameter of about 10μm . |
29 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
30 | Restrictive practices , which Clasper had fought so hard to introduce , were being discarded at a rate of knots in the quest to increase efficiency , output and earnings . |