Example sentences of "of [noun] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shaking table is a 50-tonne concrete plate set horizontally in a hole in a concrete floor with several centimetres of play at the edges . |
| 2 | While British officials were busy trying to put the best face on the evident lack of progress at the talks , the Chinese delegation was eager to emphasise the differences between the sides . |
| 3 | Traffic disruption and a shortage of change at the turnstiles saw the kick-off delayed by 15 minutes . |
| 4 | The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that guidance should be given to the profession relating to receipts which are being issued for redemption money on the redemption of feuduties in terms of Section 4 of the Land Tenure Reform ( Scotland ) Act , 1974 , the section which provided for voluntary redemption of feuduties at the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas . |
| 6 | Again , Manville felt a slight sense of marvel at the processes of his own brain , his devious but quite unconscious way of running ahead of his own thoughts and frequently alighting on off-beat answers . |
| 7 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 8 | Surviving vicious family feuds and a number of humiliations at the hands of the English , Malcolm III established a line which was to last for over two centuries . |
| 9 | After a lot of confusion at the police station I was brought in . |
| 10 | As a counterweight to this strengthening of relationships at the CNAA-institutions level the move to weaken the role of subject boards was reversed and the proposals adopted provided for greater integration of the boards than at first suggested . |
| 11 | However , the payment of premiums creates a pool of funds at the companies ' disposal , awaiting claims to be made against it . |
| 12 | It was always the softest grey-green , with sometimes a haze of yellow at the edges , sometimes a tinge of brown . |
| 13 | For example , we may estimate the values of beta at the limits of the expected value plus and minus one standard deviation , . |
| 14 | Editor , — Michael Dewey 's plea for authors ' rights brought back painful memories , for we have recently suffered the writer 's equivalent of torture at the hands of the editors of a journal published by the BMA . |
| 15 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 16 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 17 | He sat silent for a moment , glancing with a look of displeasure at the cars jamming them in on either side . |
| 18 | The two other mock-combatants were still tilting with lances of light at the quintains of other drones . |
| 19 | The research project has emerged from a British Council Exchange Link between the Departments of Geography at the Universities of Keele and Zimbabwe . |
| 20 | Chancellor Kohl can intimidate mavericks in his Christian Democrat party by threatening to move their names down on the electoral list , exposing them to the risk of defeat at the polls . |
| 21 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 22 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 23 | There are enormous numbers of possibilities when you got over the thought that you must have some sort of fabric at the windows . |
| 24 | This leaves the possibility of influence at the hands of apprentices or a designer — a possibility for which we have little , if any , evidence . |
| 25 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 26 | Detectives are hunting for two men following a spate of robberies at the homes of old-age pensioners . |
| 27 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 28 | Guest of honour at the celebrations , which coincided with the 24th anniversary of the country 's independence , was Indian Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao . |
| 29 | ‘ Plunging in at the anus and tunnelling a giant point of exit at the sockets … one part giant surge of flesh , one part holy revelation . ’ |
| 30 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |