Example sentences of "the [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual carpet designs , borders , Chlidema squares were all custom made in traditional woven Axminster or Wilton , the broadloom being woven at Elderslie and the narrow at Runcorn . |
| 2 | The 17th at Letchworth may look like a picture postcard , but it 's not a pretty sight to the members . |
| 3 | Sea Fury FB.11 G–AGHB following the forced-landing at Osnabruck , June 1979 . |
| 4 | He was due to meet de Gaulle on the 15th at Rambouillet in an attempt to soften the General 's opposition to Britain 's entry into the EEC ; and then to fly to Nassau on the 18th to meet President Kennedy for wide-ranging talks , including East-West relations , the backwash of the Cuban missile crisis , improvement of India 's defences against China , the Congo Civil War , and , most important of all , the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty . |
| 5 | He achieved the feat at the 15th at Goswick Golf Club near Berwick , George retired when Manager of Berwick-upon-Tweed Branch . |
| 6 | The actual areas enclosed vary enormously , from the largest at Water Newton ( 18 ha/44 acres ) , down to sites like Mancetter with as little as 2.1 ha ( 5 acres ) . |
| 7 | The connection was of particular significance when the site for the new Welshpool station was under consideration because the Company owned only the trackbed at Raven Square and is indebted to Powis Estates for providing the site for the station and car park . |
| 8 | It seems only the Spanish at present can make films with sex , politics and comedy in equal measure . |
| 9 | His ecumenical spirit was such that when two Spanish vessels visited Sydney in 1793 he ‘ outdid himself in his sociable gestures , particularly toward our chaplain fathers approaching them with a kindness and humility and a simplicity that was truly evangelical ’ ( The Spanish at Port Jackson , Australian Documentary Facsimile Society , 1967 ) . |
| 10 | In racing Richard Dunwoody rides again … he was first past the post in the 4-10 at Sandown … and the Oxfordshire jockey now leads the championship by fifteen from Peter Scudamore … |
| 11 | there was silver … a second place for Oxford 's Brookes University in the eights at London 's Docklands Regatta … |
| 12 | JACK CROMBIE Up and over : Chief Mole clears the last in the 2:15 at Edinburgh yesterday , but finished third |
| 13 | I ca n't think he was helped by all the upset at home during the past 18 months — mum taking a new man , & more or less telling both children that they could go & live with their Dad ( or Dads ) . |
| 14 | Elderly residents at Llys Ednyfed , a development of apartments for the retired at Mochdre , were trapped by the rising waters and had to be evacuated by boat . |
| 15 | The charnel at Howden , Yorkshire , was maintained by the Guild of the Holy Trinity . |
| 16 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 17 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 18 | Doctor Denmark recently retired as head of the Psychiatric unit for the Deaf at Whittingham Hospital , Preston , which was partially funded by the BDA . |
| 19 | This speaker , a deaf teacher of the deaf who had worked for many years in the Department of Education of the Deaf at Manchester University , had been a committed " oralist " . |
| 20 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 21 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |
| 22 | The first International Games for the Deaf at Paris in 1924 created such interest that the B.D.D.A. 's Congress at Southampton included an international football match between England and Wales , which was won by England 3–0 . |
| 23 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |
| 24 | At the age of 8 he was sent to the private school for the deaf at Rugby run by Mr. Bingham , formerly headmaster of the West of England Institution at Exeter . |
| 25 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |
| 26 | Other schools which suffered wartime bomb damage included the East Anglian School at Gorleston-on-Sea which also had its headmaster 's house destroyed , the Royal West of England School at Exeter as previously stated , and the Royal Cambrian School for the Deaf at Swansea . |
| 27 | James Paul saw the National Deaf and Dumb Society as the principal backers of establishing a network of missions for the deaf throughout the country , and the Society did indeed succeed in establishing the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf at Kilmarnock in 1881 , with Paul himself as missioner , and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 28 | Educated at Edinburgh 's Donaldson 's School for the Deaf and the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf at Newbury Lilian 's academic achievements include a BSC Honours Degree in Zoology ( Edinburgh ) and a postgraduate MBA in Business Studies ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 29 | William McDougall strongly affirmed it in his speech on " The Educational , Social and Industrial Position of the Deaf of Great Britain " , which he delivered at the World Congress of the Deaf at Buffalo in the United States in 1930 . |
| 30 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |