Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An explosion and fire killed 265 mineworkers at the Incirharmani coal-mine at Kozlu on the Black Sea coast ( 180 km north-west of Ankara ) on March 3 .
2 It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud .
3 An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war .
4 Durham Greens will be joining a national CND demonstration against Trident when the first submarine is named at Barrow-in-Furness at the end of the month .
5 Having secured a regional detente with the Soviet Union , the Americans no longer need the base facility at Berbera on the coast of the Gulf of Aden .
6 Somalian pragmatism had already been indicated in October 1974 when the Somali leader Siad Barre had offered the United States naval-base facilities at Kismayu in the south , to balance the Soviet facilities at Berbera in the north .
7 The Wellington was , of course , designed by Barnes Wallis using his geodetic construction principles and was one of the aircraft built at Brooklands during the war .
8 Marwood had a spell on loan at Middlesbrough towards the end of the season .
9 Why not run some trains beyond the intended terminus at Middlesbrough to the coast Saltburn and Whitby ?
10 In form at Middlesbrough at the moment is the former Sheffield dog , Batley Ranger , now with trainer Ronnie Chambers .
11 ‘ I am happy at Middlesbrough at the moment .
12 TINY tots in Cleveland planted acorns and conkers in nursery beds at Middlesbrough for the forest of their future .
13 The causes of the tides need hardly concern us here , except to state that the interaction of the solar and lunar gravitational effects , the shape of the oscillating basins , i.e. the seas and the oceans , the earth 's rotation , and the modification imposed upon tides by coastal configuration produces tides of varying range from virtually nil in many oceanic situations to very high figures at the head of certain bays and estuaries , for example 15 m ( 50 ft ) at the head of the Bay of Fundy and 12 m ( 40 ft ) at Avonmouth in the Bristol Channel .
14 He failed at Whitehall before the king , but made converts of Robert Boyle , Andrew Marvell , John Evelyn and many others ‘ of known honesty and intelligence ’ .
15 The last time the two teams met , was at Kingsholm in the league last season .
16 He supervised operations from a large warehouse at Greenwich on the Thames , whence he supplied the metropolitan market in particular .
17 A number of jobs were lost at Laffont at the end of 1991 .
18 For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht .
19 Then they will take their place on the ship at Tilbury among the food , plants and livestock cargo .
20 He looked down at Edouard from the horse 's back , and Edouard looked up at him .
21 Deposits of probable volcanic-exhalative origin occur in Ordovician mudstones and dolerites at Rhiw in the Lleyn Peninsula .
22 He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party .
23 George Wakes , 52 , from Birmingham , has been charged with fraud and illegal possession of 20 tons of smoked salmon valued at £250,000 at Gerona on the Costa Brava .
24 But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 .
25 Made by Alfred Fennings at Cowes on the Isle of Wight , this again was fairly strong , vile liquid to swallow but most effective .
26 [ That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresely with the loss of 1,300 jobs , completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift ; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected ; condemns British Coal 's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors , local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable Members ; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of losses ' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid , and of dole and unemployment payments to be made . ]
27 In all , some 368 coaches were converted for use as ambulance trains at Wolverton through the war .
28 These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company .
29 Chapman always admired this partnership , based , he believed , on mutual respect and understanding , and liked to view his own position at Highbury in the light of it .
30 Contrary to normal practice , ‘ the most discussed football official of recent years ’ , as the Daily Mail described him , had his team training at Highbury in the week before the final , rather than at a country or seaside resort ( Brighton was later to become the favoured Cup training ground ) .
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