Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun] 's " in BNC.

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1 The son of a wealthy English language school owner , he was born in South Wales in 1941 , and educated at The King 's School , Canterbury , and in Madrid .
2 He was educated at the King 's School , Rochester .
3 He was educated at the King 's School as a chorister of Gloucester Cathedral , then as an articled pupil of the cathedral organist , ( Sir ) A. Herbert Brewer [ q.v. ] , and finally , on winning a composition scholarship ( 1911 ) , at the Royal College of Music under Sir Charles Stanford [ q.v . ] .
4 Educated at the city 's Jesuit school , St Aloysius College , he studied for the priesthood at the Scots College , Rome , and was a graduate of the Gregorian University .
5 The Division is part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and is located at the King 's Buildings .
6 The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo .
7 On Kawara , Stephan Balkenhol and Martin Honert will take place at Kamekestrasse ; the second , featuring Philip Akkerman , Elke Denda , Andreas Gursky , Candida Hofer , Michael van Ofen , Pia Stadtbäumer , Jeff Wall and James Welling , will be installed at the gallery 's second space , at Grosse Brinkengasse 17/19 .
8 Each employee plays a part in taking the product from its beginnings as raw PVC to flooring installed at the customer 's premises .
9 The MIServer 4/2 running Unix SVR4 will be installed at the company 's Victoria offices in London running an in-house management information system used by the central buying office to analyse stock and sales information .
10 The deal with Sainsbury will result in Cashline terminals being installed at the company 's supermarkets in Bridgend ( Mid Glamorgan ) and Totton ( Hampshire ) .
11 He was a commissioning engineer at Wytch Farm when the company 's meters were installed at the oilfield 's gathering station and at the oil export terminal at Hamble , Southampton , in 1989 .
12 Whenever we reached coral or shoal waters Thessy was forced to spend hours perched at the foremast 's
13 The talk of the south picked at the Don 's motives — naivety , malignancy , folly , even hitherto unsuspected Anarchist sympathies had been suggested .
14 The trouble originated at the city 's Hehai University and prompted widespread anti-African demonstrations .
15 He had looked at the children 's modelling and their puzzling drawings of oversized objects — single , primary colours and minute figures dwarfed by the chaotic world around them .
16 But outside the house on this Sunday morning the usual gossip was forgotten , for Max Klein 's new motor-car was parked at the Rabbi 's front door and it seemed that half the community had gathered to wonder at it .
17 An application from Oswestry to join the Cymru Alliance will be considered at the League 's AGM at Carno tomorrow when the management committee will recommend an increase from 16 to 18 clubs .
18 The award will be made for the most outstanding achievement between 1st August 1991 and 31st July 1992 , and will be presented at the RSGB 's annual convention in September .
19 Mr Davies yesterday offered to re-run the contest under the party 's 1985 rules when the matter was decided at the party 's general management committee by delegates elected by wards and the trade unions .
20 The CBI and other industrial representatives argued that such incentives already existed in the form of the employee 's salary , the training undergone at the firm 's expense , and the provision of a suitable working environment .
21 Part of the location work was shot at the Queen 's Barracks in the heart of the Surrey countryside at Stoughton .
22 The defender employs a suitable counter with a ground side-foot thrust at the attacker 's groin .
23 This ‘ science city ’ , sited at the University 's Bush Estate to the south of the city , aims to put Edinburgh at the forefront of technology transfer by bringing the world 's finest R&D and training to its doorstep .
24 The plight of the country 's refugees has tugged at the nation 's heart .
25 While they will be taxed at the investor 's top rate , when repatriated they will be treated as income , rather than capital , and therefore avoid the risk of having to pay capital gains tax .
26 ‘ We say that the letter was written by Paula Gilfoyle but it was written at the defendant 's request and dictation and no such person as Nigel existed .
27 By the way , despite what Dove is quoted as saying in the note , there is a direct quotation from his ‘ assigned ’ opera , Figaro : in No. 5 , ‘ The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel ’ , after the clarinet has hinted at the Count 's ‘ Contessa , perdono ! ’ , there is his spouse 's ‘ Più docile io sono … ‘ , the second phrase warmly harmonized à la Steve Reich — a little too sweet for my taste I 'm afraid .
28 The experimental rig that will be built at the UKAEA 's Harwell base is , ironically , called ACHILLES , The NII agrees that recent work in Canada , West Germany and the United States has gone some way to showing the likely scale of the ballooning effect .
29 Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one .
30 Capital losses can be offset against capital gains tax liability , and there is a tax-free element before capital gains tax is levied at the individual 's personal marginal tax rate .
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