Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time .
2 This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) .
3 This unexpected success was more to do with the low turn-out of bondholders at the meeting rather than any change of attitude .
4 To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade .
5 And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career .
6 Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time .
7 Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster .
8 Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident .
9 It may be instructive that the prime mover in the action was an American bank ( Allied International ) which has subsequently ceased operations in London and which withdrew from the action on those grounds , although their vice president in charge of operations at the material time was , and still is , resident here .
10 I arrived quite blind after a great number of cocktails at the George with Claud .
11 The aircraft would be taxied into position at the base of the tower and connected to two cables , attached by way of mounts at the wing roots .
12 In fact , he made the initial call for me , as he has a lot of contacts at the station because of his job . ’
13 We have always loved the idea of artists at the mercy of art , the dancing shoes that take over .
14 Whilst there was much talk of objects at the COSE initiative roll-out , firms associated with the effort do not yet seem to have decided if or how this playing field can be levelled , or whether basic object functionality is to be used to gain competitive advantage .
15 This was partly induced or caused by the development of courts at a distance from the curia but directly under the pope .
16 A series of improvements at the site in Barcelona have resulted in the annual rate of three day lost time accidents being reduced by a third .
17 President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis .
18 The results often distort the real standing of riders at the top of the general classification , and the stage is cruel to its victims .
19 There was a spectacular incident at the finish of the race when Jonathan Aiken , in attempting to squeeze past a bunch of riders at the line , clipped a grass verge and bounced across the track but although he took a nasty looking fall he was uninjured .
20 Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors .
21 A universal assay technology — called electro-rotation assay ( ERA ) — is capable of delivering accurate results in a matter of minutes at a fraction of the cost of existing diagnostic systems , its developer , Scientific Generics , claims .
22 Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather .
23 Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
24 Despite the positive aspects of school/authority relationships mentioned in this report thus far , there seems to be a gulf between the intentions of the Authority , ( the Directorate , QAU etc ) and the understandings of personnel at the school level .
25 Large turnover of personnel at the centre , but its prerogatives strengthened : a search for ‘ the best and the brightest ’ .
26 You spoke of personnel at the beginning ; the number of staff on the City Council in the last ten years has doubled .
27 Salisbury had remarked in 1911 that " whatever your own opinions , the Conservative party can only assimilate change gradually " , and this was certainly so in the case of personnel at the top .
28 The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut .
29 In Darlington the council calculates there are approximately 18,800 houses in the bottom band while the number of houses at the peak is negligible .
30 you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road .
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