Example sentences of "of a [noun] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was decided by a phone call from Sue Hunt , organiser of a charity run at daughter Sally 's school , Sandbach High . |
| 2 | One priority identified by participants was to attempt a census of living species , of which only 1.4 million are known , out of a total estimated at between 5 million and 50 million . |
| 3 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
| 4 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 5 | The actual work of constructing the Sighthill Bypass was undertaken by Messrs Balfour Beatty Construction ( Scotland ) Limited under the terms of a contract valued at just under £13 million and supervision of this work was provided by Department of Highways staff , the Director of Highways being the Engineer for the Works . |
| 6 | The construction of the Gilmerton Bypass was undertaken by Miller Construction Ltd under the terms of a contract valued at £11.6 million and supervised by the staff of the Department of Highways with the Director of Highways being the Engineer for the Works . |
| 7 | Thieves helped themselves to a number of televisions off the back of a lorry parked at Woodside Cafe , at Knayton , near Thirsk , while the driver had his breakfast . |
| 8 | A high grade official might also keep at hand a jade sceptre ( ju-i ) with flattened head and curved handle of a kind used at court and commonly presented by an emperor to persons of distinction , and in addition a hat-stand with carved domed head mounted on a wooden stem and base set with jade . |
| 9 | Some researchers have suggested that the plague may be an unforeseen consequence of a scheme aimed at reducing the release of acid-rain-causing compounds into the atmosphere . |
| 10 | If the first round went to the Haldanes through their removal of that active member of the hammermen 's trade , John Main , the Cunningham party quickly retaliated by securing , through the agency of the member of parliament for Stirlingshire , Captain James Campbell , the removal of a tidesman stationed at Inverkeithing named Morris , who was an active Haldane partisan . |
| 11 | But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair , and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down . |
| 12 | ORGANISERS of a service aimed at reuniting lost pets with their owners have just celebrated the group 's first anniversary . |
| 13 | We have just received our first order from the Ukraine as a result of a contact made at the Expozoo exhibition in Paris . |
| 14 | However any small boat owner will appreciate not only the need for recording navigational information but also the pleasure to be gained after the event in recalling the events of a passage or cruise through the pages of a log kept at the time . |
| 15 | All these poignant images and many more were presented during the course of a colloquium held at the Fondation Marcel Mérieux near Annecy , France , last weekend . |
| 16 | The objectives of a promotion directed at consumers could be to : |
| 17 | The increase was announced by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley last week at the launch of a campaign aimed at reversing the Drug research |
| 18 | The attack was in breach of a ceasefire agreed at a meeting in Tehran on May 8 between Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the then acting President of Azerbaijan Yagub Mamedov . |
| 19 | The directive was part of a plan aimed at reducing the estimated unemployment rate of between 8 and 10 per cent by doubling the percentage of Bahrainis working in the private sector to 50 per cent by mid-1994 . |
| 20 | LEFT Copy of a fresco found at Knossos , Crete , showing bull-dancing . |
| 21 | On sherds of a beaker found at Verulamium , Hercules is standing with his bow in his right hand which is thrust forward and presumably his left is drawing an arrow from a quiver , the lion skin and mask are draped over his outstretched arm ( fig. 14.36 ) . |
| 22 | The job losses were part of a masterplan aimed at transforming the structure of the oil group . |
| 23 | The threat was made in the form of a statement issued at the annual conference in Rabaul , on Oct. 23 , attended by the premiers of Manus , New Ireland , and East and West New Britain , and community leaders from Bougainville . |
| 24 | ABJECTION , Melancholia and Love is , with three additions , the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Warwick in 1957 on the works of Julia Kristeva . |
| 25 | This book is essentially the proceedings of a conference held at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute , in California , in 1989 . |
| 26 | British Industry and European Law emerged from addresses and discussions of a conference held at Brunel University as long ago as November 1972 . |
| 27 | The topic was the focus of a meeting held at Erice in Italy in March 1981 , and this book collects the papers on alternatives to the tokamaks that at present dominate fusion . |
| 28 | THE Capenhurst decommissioning team has been awarded a plaque in recognition of a paper presented at the Oak Ridge Conference in the United States . |
| 29 | As part of a study aimed at elucidating the function of POU domain genes in embryonic development a cDNA clone containing the entire coding region of pou[c] was isolated by low-stringency plaque hybridization of a cDNA library derived from 33h zebrafish embryos using a 380 bp Hind III fragment spanning the salmon pit-1 POU domain ( R.Aasland , unpublished ) as a probe . |
| 30 | The tamarins were due to be taken from Washington 's Zoological Park to Brazil , as part of a programme aimed at increasing the numbers of endangered species . |