Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a number of valuable contacts , and was able to renew my acquaintance with seven graduates of the M.A. course at Lancaster ( four of them teachers at the CIEFL ) . |
| 2 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 3 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 4 | ‘ Wot 's more , one of my customers at the Inn 'as proof positive that the election was rigged . |
| 5 | I meet some of my customers at the start , running for charity , who thump me on the back and feel good because there 's someone they recognise in the milling crowd of shivering runners . |
| 6 | I could probably give you the best idea by saying that I conducted most of my tests at an output rating of only 8 watts per channel and that there was sufficient volume to overwhelm a large mammal . |
| 7 | When I first announced the results of my calculations at a conference at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory near Oxford , I was greeted with general incredulity . |
| 8 | At nine o'clock , by arrangement , I rang one of my colleagues at the hospital , Dr. J. D. Underwood , about a matter which is coming up at the next medical committee . |
| 9 | I was terrified out of my wits at the very idea . |
| 10 | Also , they were perhaps inclined to adopt the world view of their respondents at the expense of other perspectives ( such as those of young women for example ) — something for which ethnographers are often criticised . |
| 11 | They have been replaced by a Labour leadership keen to blame many of their problems at the Government 's door . |
| 12 | One of their tasks at the workshop will be to assess media education resources used on other continents and to select those that are relevant for Africa . |
| 13 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 14 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 15 | They 're sure to have the time of their lives at the Pirates Club or Club 16 , enjoying hours of fun with newfound friends and leaving you with new-found freedom . |
| 16 | Firstly , individual trade unions raise the real wages of their members at the expense of non-unionised workers — in practice wages obtained by collective bargaining tend on average to be about 20 per cent higher than other wages . |
| 17 | In 1851 Hoopers of Eastington were noted for the fine display of their products at the great Exhibition . |
| 18 | Of these patients six underwent surgery at a median of 1.25 months ( range 0.5–7 ) from the procedure , four are awaiting surgery at a median of nine months ( range four to 14 ) , and three underwent endoscopic clearance of their ducts at a median of one month ( range 0.5–2 ) . |
| 19 | Once again hardware and software developers will be testing the portability and interoperability of their technologies at the eighth Connectathon event which SunSoft Inc is staging at between July 22–30 at the San Jose Convention centre in California . |
| 20 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 21 | ) And , having digested that , any Masons would have shot out of their seats at the beginning of the overture — threefold chords in a knocking rhythm . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone has a record by The Drifters and I think we have all sung one of their numbers at a wedding . |
| 23 | ‘ I am here tonight to congratulate the National Safety Award winning companies — companies who have put the health and safety of their employees at the top of their agenda . ’ |
| 24 | The particles in a black hole need not have an end of their histories at a singularity . |
| 25 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 26 | Last February the grant from the SAC was withheld until the company conducted a major review of its plans at the request of the SAC 's music committee . |
| 27 | Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together . |
| 28 | The tomb was robbed of its treasures at an early date but the paintings survived intact until their re-discovery in 1904 by Ernesto Schiaparelli . |
| 29 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 30 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |