Example sentences of "of [noun sg] at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Embarrassed salesman Mr Drury , 34 , said : ‘ I have taken a lot of stick at work over this . |
| 2 | Recent press reports that salmon from Scottish fish farms were contaminated with the unlicensed chemical Invermectin have been condemned by Professor Randolph Richards , Deputy director of the Institute of Agriculture at University of Stirling , as unsubstantiated . |
| 3 | At the time the largest fusion research unit in the United Kingdom was at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( AERE ) , Harwell , under the leadership of Peter Thonemann , now Professor of Physics at University of Wales , Swansea . |
| 4 | In a world in which , for the most part , neighbourhood and class are largely coincident , the two definitions are of course at war with another . |
| 5 | There had been the natural initial shock of disbelief at hearing of the unexpected death of any person even casually known . |
| 6 | Maury 's dream could be a good example of this sort of attempt at comprehension of a series of striking but unconnected images and sensations , a form of the " effort after meaning " that the Cambridge psychologist Sir Frederick Bartlett ascribed to normal waking memory processes in the first half of this century . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , extensive filming of craftspeople at work in the visitor centre was cut to only a few short extracts , plus an interview with Chairman and Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell , because of intensive coverage of the disastrous Windsor Castle fire . |
| 8 | Children 's bikes are also available , but please specify age of child at time of booking as these are subject to availability . |
| 9 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 10 | There is a kind of ventriloquy at work in Allegories of Reading . |
| 11 | The conference yesterday : Condemned privatisation of security at Ministry of Defence establishments . |
| 12 | The assessment of need at point of referral will be undertaken by the social worker on duty , or by the Home Help Organiser if a home help is requested . |
| 13 | Bernie Marsden enjoying his favourite form of relaxation at home near Buckingham . |
| 14 | ‘ I want my own little piece of heaven at home in Ireland , ’ said Miss Downey . |
| 15 | A. undigested incisor from barn owl assemblage ( ×18 ) ; B. enamel digested from tip of incisor from snowy owl assemblage ( ×18 ) ; C. detail of same ( ×38 ) ; D. surface etching of tip of incisor from short-eared owl assemblage ( ×14 ) ; E. detail of same ( ×188 ) ; F. enamel removed from tip of incisor of Verreaux eagle owl assemblage by digestion ( ×11 ) ; G. detail of enamel edge of same ( ×38 ) ; H. heavy digestion on incisor from tawny owl assemblage ( ×14 ) ; I. detail of enamel at tip of incisor of same ( ×32 ) ; l. digestion along length of incisor from little owl assemblage ( ×11 ) ; K. detail of same ( ×262 ) ; L. heavy digestion of incisor from kestrel assemblage , showing the breakdown of tissue along length of the tooth and complete digestion of the enamel ( ×38 ) ; M. nearly complete removal of enamel along length of incisor from kestrel assemblage ( ×8 ) ; N. detail of island of enamel remaining on same ( ×38 ) ; O. destructuring of incisor from common buzzard assemblage with collapse of dentine and removal of most of the enamel ( ×8 ) ; P. detail of same ( ×52 ) . |
| 16 | Balance Sheet of Leech at end of Month |
| 17 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 18 | These changes mean that , in studying the emergence of Britain 's underclass , it is necessary to change the focus of attention , away from the traditional topic of selection for secondary education , to one of selection at entry into the labour market . |
| 19 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |
| 20 | In 1939 he rejoined his regiment and served on the staff as a captain until 1944 , when he was transferred to the procurement and fine arts branch formed to protect historic buildings and works of art at risk during the invasion of the Continent . |
| 21 | PATERNAL AGE — denotes the age of father at birth of child in completed years . |
| 22 | " Be yourself " is , interestingly enough , a piece of advice at home in secularized Western societies as much as in traditional religion . |
| 23 | Earlier research conducted at Staffordshire Potteries links illness , absence from work and expressions of discomfort at work with the organisation of work itself , especially work which involves assembly line type conditions , and which necessitates workers being tied to a machine for the entire working day . |
| 24 | Smith and Jacobson ( 1988 ) report that expectation of life at birth for a male born in England and Wales in 1983/84 was 71.3 years compared with 69.9 years if he was born in Scotland . |
| 25 | As late as 1861 , expectation of life at birth for males in Liverpool was 26 ; in Okehampton , Devon , it was 57 ; as big a difference as the national difference between 1840 and 1960 ( Woods 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Around 1900 expectation of life at birth for males was about 48 in Britain compared with 45 in Germany and France , 44 in Italy and 40 in Spain . |
| 27 | The expectation of life at birth for women born in 1976 was 75.8 years , while for those born 50 years earlier it was 59.3 years . |
| 28 | For example , expectation of life at birth for Aborigines is some 15–17 years less than that for the total Australian population , and infant mortality is three times greater . |
| 29 | An Englishman 's expectation of life at birth in the 1880s was 43.7 years , a Frenchman 's a little over 40 , and a German 's a little under . |
| 30 | In 1983 the expectation of life at birth in England and Wales was 71.3 years for men and 77.3 years for women ( Whitehead -1987 ) compared with 55.3 and 54.4 years respectively for citizens of Bangladesh . |