Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this event was entirely unrepresentational of my behaviour at that time . |
| 2 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 3 | I I ca n't be sure where I got the information from but from that time until the end of my shift at ten P M I was gleaning information from all different directions about the and the connection . |
| 4 | A photograph of my mother at that time shows a beautiful , resolute face under waves of soft brown hair . |
| 5 | But he then said that he and his friends did n't like the drift of my article at all , and for the sake of my health I would be well advised to leave the subject alone . |
| 6 | A Brady-plan sell-off of their debt at bargain-basement rates might damage their standing . |
| 7 | In the United States , for example , people began to pay tax on the first slice of their income at 14 per cent , then 16 per cent for the next band , and so on . |
| 8 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 9 | All the loving and giving of small luxuries and necessities that she had not thought of herself , and the expected regularity of their attendance at those sumptuous Sunday luncheons , encroached dangerously on the precious isolation of life at Kileady . |
| 10 | All applications for the post were to be accompanied by testimonials ‘ from the place of their medical education and of their attendance at medical and anatomical lectures ’ . |
| 11 | The Big Six , in their statement , aimed most of their wrath at joint and several liability , something UK accountants would also like to see changed . |
| 12 | for the relief and reward of the defenders of their Country at this Important Crisis ' , and in 1807 they provided £200 for a school in Londonderry , even though the Irish Society had already subscribed . |
| 13 | John Major put the region 's candidates and campaigners out of their misery at 1.00 p.m. and set the date . |
| 14 | Swindon fans will be put out of their misery at eleven o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | American disinterest in their fate has meant the stalling of negotiations with the PLO towards a settlement and the apparently indefinite toleration by the West of their ill-treatment at Israeli hands . |
| 16 | Children with a very severe mental or physical handicap can spend some of their time at special schools or residential centres , but once they reach adulthood facilities are often no longer available . |
| 17 | The major , and as yet unexplained , exceptions are the ‘ dunnock ’ cuckoos , whose eggs do not resemble those of their host at all . |
| 18 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 19 | The plantations are often considered of little value as bird habitats , but there can be no doubt of their importance at some stages of their development . |
| 20 | The total retail value of their stock at this period was estimated at £200,000 . |
| 21 | Babergh starkly illustrates the brittleness of its prosperity at any given moment . |
| 22 | When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times . |
| 23 | It penetrates the carcase of its prey at one end , usually the head end , and it may actually leave the skin intact while progressively eating through the insides of the animal . |
| 24 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 25 | Shallow Adit was being carried on , driven for much of its way at first through " flockan " , along a fault , to intersect Shaft Lode , South Lode , and finally the North Lode . |
| 26 | The mule uttered its insane bray and broke free of its prison at last . |
| 27 | Fortunately the machine came to the end of its cycle at this point and she was able to continue in a more normal tone of voice . |
| 28 | Instead it is a massive cloud of dust , radiating 99% of its energy at far infrared wavelengths . |
| 29 | Vauxhall 's contender takes the twin-camshaft , fuel-injection , multi-valve route but , unlike so many others , this 16-valver does n't fall into the trap of developing all of its power at high revs . |
| 30 | of its collection at any time . |