Example sentences of "as [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once there , a visit to the Spanish Riding School in Hofburg is essential in order to see the Crown Jewels , as well as marvel at the world famous white stallions . |
| 2 | Proposals were therefore announced in March 1991 to recognise exchange differences on monetary assets and liabilities as income at the time they accrue . |
| 3 | Hunter succeeded Phillipa Burrow as chairman at the Torquay convention , less than two weeks after his 30th birthday and only 10 years after leaving college in his native Edinburgh with a Higher National Diploma in communications studies . |
| 4 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 5 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 6 | No later Turkish author really deals with the problem except Ismail Belig , who , in his article on Molla Yegan , states that the latter succeeded Molla Fenari as muderris at the Manastir medrese in 771/1369–70 and as kadi of Bursa in 822/1419 when Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage and spent some time in Egypt on his return . |
| 7 | As tension at the count at Hummersknott School mounted , a worried gaggle of counters informed the Returning Officer the number of ballot papers did not tally with the number who had cast votes . |
| 8 | Only those named as drivers at the commencement of the rental may drive the car , and each one must sign the rental contract with the hire company . |
| 9 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |
| 10 | We watched him greedily as Darwin at the zoo |
| 11 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |
| 12 | Both chapters warrant inclusion as overviews at the start of the book rather than being buried in the middle of text . |
| 13 | If a few Ukrainians suffered as individuals at the hands of the Nicholaevan regime , Jews , like Poles , suffered collectively . |
| 14 | erm there is basically , as you know , and as Queenie at the beginning , it is actually the County Council who is the highway authority and we are their agent . |
| 15 | A further example would be where the proprietor of a country hotel wishes to expand her business by adding a heated swimming pool , sauna , solarium , etc. to the premises and advertising the establishment as a health club open to non-resident members as well as guests at the hotel . |
| 16 | The Association had applied to become a member following the presence of Kenneth McDougall and Mark Frame as observers at the World Federation s second Congress in Zagreb , Yugoslavia , in 1955 . |
| 17 | In both , ‘ irrationality ’ — in the form of authorial personality , unconscious contradiction or excess — is discovered as negation at the heart of the commercial and purposeful rationality of capitalist production and bourgeois ideology . |
| 18 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 19 | This had to be abandoned as conditions at the harbour entrance were too dangerous for the lifeboat to enter . |
| 20 | Pleased as Punch at the thought of his visit Gerald Seymour-Strachey might be , but the ‘ Come in ’ that answered his knock was lordly . |
| 21 | A self-confessed socialist , Cipriani duly supported all types of social reform , the mention of which was viewed as subversion at the time , and his record as a fighter against all forms of injustice is impressive : |
| 22 | ‘ Well , we certainly had them when you were cleaning that playbill of William as Lear at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden … ’ |
| 23 | The forty-five year-old , Yale-trained art historian has a strong record in the field , having spent eight years as curator at The Art Institute of Chicago where he co-organised ‘ A Day in the Country : Impressionism and the French Landscape ’ and ‘ The Art of Paul Gauguin ’ . |
| 24 | By a formal letter of request for international judicial assistance pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters ( 1970 ) ( Cmnd. 6727 ) made by Chief Judge Platt in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and dated 24 January 1992 , examination was sought of Dr. Thomas Hayes , formerly senior forensic scientist at the Forensic Explosives Laboratory of the Royal Armament Research Establishment , for use as evidence at the trial of actions brought by personal representatives and families of those killed in December 1988 in the air crash at Lockerbie against the defendants to those actions , Pan American Airways Inc. , Pan Am World Services Inc. and Alert Management Systems Inc . |
| 25 | Some of the Romanian émigrés and ex-political-prisoners present as witnesses at the hearing were shocked that a Western politician could express such views . |
| 26 | The research provides , through a lengthy national survey , detailed information on how the experience of recession has affected such matters as relations at the work-place , the structure of the labour market , de-skilling and the impact of new technology , the division of labour within the family and the effects of unemployment . |
| 27 | They got as far as Eldinhope at the head of St Mary 's Loch before the early November dark made following the tracks of even five hundred difficult ; and the Regent and Ramsay spent the night in that remote peel-tower of a Scott laird . |
| 28 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 29 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 30 | So we sat as tourists at the bullfight |