Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of personnel at the ministries of Defence , Interior , Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor 's office would be severely cut . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that guidance should be given to the profession relating to receipts which are being issued for redemption money on the redemption of feuduties in terms of Section 4 of the Land Tenure Reform ( Scotland ) Act , 1974 , the section which provided for voluntary redemption of feuduties at the terms of Whitsunday and Martinmas . |
| 3 | Surviving vicious family feuds and a number of humiliations at the hands of the English , Malcolm III established a line which was to last for over two centuries . |
| 4 | As a counterweight to this strengthening of relationships at the CNAA-institutions level the move to weaken the role of subject boards was reversed and the proposals adopted provided for greater integration of the boards than at first suggested . |
| 5 | However , the payment of premiums creates a pool of funds at the companies ' disposal , awaiting claims to be made against it . |
| 6 | Detectives are hunting for two men following a spate of robberies at the homes of old-age pensioners . |
| 7 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 8 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |
| 9 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 10 | The southern area ( Canning Town ) is the abode of workers at the docks , gas works and sugar refineries , marmalade and rubber factories : there is also a fleeting population of seafaring men of various races who help to provide a livelihood for the keepers of numerous common lodging houses … |
| 11 | The presence of clowns at the windows , leaning over the balconies , walking up and down , hands in pockets , fags in mouths adds an additional surreal touch . |
| 12 | This distribution perhaps again largely reflects the distribution of observers at the migrations , and the species certainly occurs inland , usually in arable farmland . |
| 13 | This happens because of changes at the synapses between motor and sensory cells . |
| 14 | Thom 's research centred round a method of calculation of flow problems , using a process of continuous approximation to final values of quantities at the intersections of a square grid covering the field of study . |
| 15 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 16 | She was unusually silent , but the group of scientists at the tables could hear her muttering to herself as she punished the books at the end of one of the bays . |
| 17 | For every social actor , category or community , there will be a multiplicity of boundaries at the frontiers of the home ground environment . |
| 18 | Beach boys ( and girls ) will be glad to hear that Togs are now better for the prevention of leaks at the legs than any other nappy . |
| 19 | Hundreds of eyes gazed dismally out of windows at the rivers gurgling along the gutters , scores of small noses flattened their ends against the dry sides of windowpanes down the other surface of which streamed rivulets of water . |
| 20 | The Custody officer is responsible for safeguarding the rights of suspects at the police station . |
| 21 | Yet the disreputable William Martin had won an enormous following in " Worstedopolis ' , culminating in a mighty show of hands at the hustings which had left no one in any doubt that , had those hands possessed a vote apiece , he would have been elected overwhelmingly as a Bradford MP . |
| 22 | The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen . |
| 23 | The RUC said its officers fired a number of shots at the gunmen . |
| 24 | The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 . |
| 25 | This book is courageous in exposing the violation of women at the hands of medical and scientific practitioners , in placing this medical malpractice n social and feminist contexts , and in showing that all women will be effected by reproductive technology if it is allowed to go on . |
| 26 | Wembley will also advise on security , tickets and merchandise and be heavily involved with the mechanics of staging a variety of events at the stadia concerned . |
| 27 | But John Bell , director of leisure services , added : ‘ We are gravely concerned about the incident and have taken steps to ensure that , by additional training and regular monitoring , the safety of schoolchildren at the pools , and swimmers generally , will continue to be of the highest priority . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Bell says : ‘ We are gravely concerned about the incident and have taken steps to ensure that , by additional training and regular monitoring , the safety of schoolchildren at the pools and swimmers generally will continue to be of the highest priority . ’ |
| 29 | Some of the documentaries screening are A PLACE OF RAGE , a portrait of two inspirational African-American women Angela Davies and June Jordan , and MYSTERIES OF JULY an elegaic investigation into the issue of deaths at the hands of the police . |
| 30 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |