Example sentences of "at [art] [noun sg] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years did n't seem such a long time when one of them had elapsed , and although Robyn was satisfied that she was highly valued by her colleagues , the talk at the University these days was all of further cuts , of tightening belts , deteriorating staff-student ratios . |
| 2 | Kat brought it right back to basics : ‘ Good thing they do n't burn at the stake these days . ’ |
| 3 | At the outset these honours were merely purchased , but in later creations the augmentations came with the grants . |
| 4 | CAN you imagine a situation at a cemetery — the funeral procession arriving , formally attired people getting out of cars at a marked spot , but some of these well-dressed mourners removing their jackets , rolling up sleeves , unloading picks and spades from the boot and starting to dig the grave ; possibly with the professionals cum gardeners watching from a distance and gloating at the mess these amateurs are making ? |
| 5 | President Cormack got the slip of paper at the hour most Washingtonians , unaware of what had happened , were preparing their breakfast . |
| 6 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 7 | At the surface these cracks may remain open and empty , forming deep clefts , but deeper down , magma forces its way up into the crack , widening it considerably by hydraulically wedging the walls apart . |
| 8 | Britain withdrew aid from Malawi last year , and from Sudan the previous year , in protest at the way those countries treated their citizens . |
| 9 | ‘ But look at the way those bones are lying — it is n't natural . ’ |
| 10 | My own dismay at the way those kids were savaging the flora of Stonethwaite is a good example . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe we could light a fire , ’ she suggested , looking briefly up at him , and feeling somewhat disconcerted at the way those eyes were resting on her . |
| 12 | After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ? |
| 13 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |
| 14 | Things are becoming intolerable at the club these days and the boot sale is only part of it . |
| 15 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 16 | I thought at the end both sides were happy to hear the final whistle . |
| 17 | By some miracle the other infant , a girl born to Mrs Wright , the widow of a railway engineer who had been killed at the rampart some weeks earlier , survived . |
| 18 | At the interview all aspects of your financial affairs will be discussed , with the emphasis on minimising your tax liabilities , maximising your income and generally protecting your assets . |
| 19 | Look at the jar several times each day . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , are yer comin' or ai n't yer ? ’ he asked after a long and noisy sip at the cup that cheers . |
| 21 | Next week we shall be looking at the impact these methods of delivering care have upon such varied areas of our professional life as advocacy , ethics , accountability and assertiveness . |
| 22 | Looking to the longer term , the Company has outline plans for a later phase of developments which will include platform improvements and a visitors ' viewing gallery in the workshops but at the moment all efforts are focused on phase 1 . |
| 23 | At the moment each Magistrates bench is able to decide its own policy . |
| 24 | At the moment most drivers have no official training on how to cope with motorway conditions , I asked Sergeant Bill Clarke from the Forces Driving School why it was n't part of the driving test . |
| 25 | For many people at the time such practices were regarded as immoral . |
| 26 | At the time most reports gave casualty figures of about 200 dead , 800 wounded , but as the month progressed the estimates of the number of dead increased to 800 . |
| 27 | Turnbull 's calls were of great interest to the government at the time any calls to him from Britain would be separated from the surrounding chaff and monitored . |
| 28 | At the time these changes were justified by the need to maintain social order and the ‘ violations ’ of individual rights were explained as purely temporary expedients . |
| 29 | On Nov. 27 three EGPGC members , Ramón Pineiro Beiro , Eduardo Abad Lojo and Manuel Quintáns López , were convicted of attacks on banks in La Coruña in the autumn of 1988 ; at the time these attacks had been attributed to GRAPO [ see p. 36777 ] . |
| 30 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |