Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford died at the age of thirty in 1373 leaving , like Lancaster , two coheiresses , though both were under age when their father died . |
| 2 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 3 | In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " . |
| 4 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 5 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 6 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 7 | AQIB JAVED of Pakistan picked at the seam of a cricket ball in full view of BBC cameras at The Oval . |
| 8 | Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head . |
| 9 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 10 | The Bank of England stands at the centre of the UK financial system . |
| 11 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 12 | The overwhelming majority of Shetlanders employed at the airport are unskilled , semi-skilled ‘ blue collar ’ workers . |
| 13 | This trinity of faculties constituted the image of God and enabled in him a wisdom based on the knowledge of the reality of the love of God revealed at the Incarnation . |
| 14 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 15 | The holiness of God lies at the root of his self-revelation as Yahweh ( Exodus 3:5 ) . |
| 16 | In the US the Carnegie Foundation has established a Centre for the Study of Societal Ageing at the University of Michigan . |
| 17 | The citizens of Riverbank stood at the water 's edge and stared in horror at the two on the opposite bank . |
| 18 | The native of Japan arrives at the station two or three hours before the train is due . |
| 19 | The stars , writers , musicians and leading lights of Oxford gathered at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television . |
| 20 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 21 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 22 | It was accompanied by an exhibition of work selected from the various groups of IAWA held at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid . |
| 23 | At the door of his tent , Osbern of Eu looked at the King . |
| 24 | But the following morning I awoke to the familiar sound of Chola shouting at the dogs and the dogs ' yelping response . |
| 25 | This issue of NI looks at the car 's impact on our lives , our health and our environment . |
| 26 | The clergy educated under the dispensation of Charlemagne stood at the elbows of his successors like Old Testament prophets advising them how to rule — from the Old Testament . |
| 27 | Skymaster is a section of Prestel aimed at the aviation community but run by two separate organisations , the Met Office and the Aeronautical Information Service ( AIS ) of the CAA . |
| 28 | As those versed in the Bible will know , the Gospel of Mark begins at the Temptations and contains no mention whatever of the birth of Jesus . |
| 29 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 30 | Moreover , as Dr Matt McGue of the University of Minnesota commented at the time , |