Example sentences of "of [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She heard his sigh , then he was raising one hand to the dark wealth of hair at the back of her head , drawing her face away from the warm sanctuary of his chest , ignoring her small whimper of protest as his lips descended on hers . |
| 32 | I 'm all out of tact at the moment . ’ |
| 33 | Lewis returned to England in March 1883 as assistant professor of pathology at the Army Medical School in Netley , where he introduced practical instruction in modern methods of bacteriological enquiry . |
| 34 | In both areas there is an acute shortage of expertise at the Garden . |
| 35 | Tickets may be booked in advance for the LAST EVENING PERFORMANCES , LATE NIGHTS and WEEKENDS on the basis of payment at the time of booking . |
| 36 | His willingness to accept violation and destruction at our hands out of love for us the loving obedience to his Father is the darkness of the aboriginal prayer , the prayer that makes sense of any other prayer , the mystery of hope at the heart of hopelessness that Dr Spufford refers to in the death of Robert Aske . |
| 37 | It is always such a wonderful event , a kind of message of hope at the start of the year . |
| 38 | The situation can be complicated if the metalworkers added small amounts of lead , or added pieces of scrap at the casting stage , because the ‘ signature ’ of the lead will no longer be that of a single source and sorting this out seems well-nigh impossible . |
| 39 | And there is a growing sense of horror at the treatment to which farm animals have been subjected in ‘ animal-loving ’ Britain since the Second World War . |
| 40 | Last year 's main award went to Dr Martin Wiseman , head of nutrition at the Department of Health . |
| 41 | The proportion of very fat women had risen from 8 per cent to 12 per cent , while the proportion of obese men had risen from 6 per cent to 8 per cent , said Dr Buss , head of nutrition at the Ministry of Agriculture Food and Fisheries . |
| 42 | In fact Professor Hayek is sufficiently honest to admit that the free society which we have seen grow in Europe since the Enlightenment has produced through the writings of Marx and Freud a set of values which if not renounced will destroy the civilisation itself ; namely the pursuit of egalitarianism at the collective level leading to the replacement of the market economy by the planned economy and the pursuit of freedom at the personal level leading to abandonment of traditional morality based on the concept of right and wrong and good and evil . |
| 43 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 44 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 45 | John Szarkowski , recently retired as the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York , has been reported as considering Lee Friedlander the best photographer living . |
| 46 | No sooner was Peter Galassi appointed to the post of Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art than he began a systematic rummaging through the holdings not only of the photography department but of all the other departments of the museum as well . |
| 47 | Lee Friedlander exhibited with Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus in a landmark show called " New Documents " organized by the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art , New York , in 1966 ( which toured the US 1967–75 ) . |
| 48 | Under its director , John Szarkowski , The Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art organized , studied and catalogued the collection . |
| 49 | In the autumn of 1852 he photographed in Russia , and the results were shown at the first exhibition of photography at the Society of Arts , when he gave the address . |
| 50 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 51 | May I take this opportunity of wishing my right hon. Friend the very best of luck at the Agriculture Council meeting next week , when the future of agricultural policy and the appalling proposals of Mr. MacSharry will be discussed ? |
| 52 | He added : ‘ I 'm bowling without a great deal of luck at the moment but I feel good about my game . ’ |
| 53 | He was really an MD — kept up a second income from some sort of consultancy at the teaching hospital . |
| 54 | Karen welcomed this as further evidence of my tact and seriousness , which she ascribed to a sense of responsibility at the prospect of becoming the pater of a tiny foetus . |
| 55 | His area of responsibility at the V&A will be Northern European sculpture between 1450 and 1700 , with special emphasis on German polychromed wood sculpture . |
| 56 | H.M.S. Edinburgh a type 42 destroyer was commissioned on 17th December by the Right Honourable Michael Heseltine Minister of Defence at the Cruise Liner Berth in the Western Harbour . |
| 57 | The driving force behind the idea is the Cranfield Institute of Technology , which already supplies teaching and research for the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 58 | A YOUNG Coldstream Guardsman confined to a wheelchair by catastrophic injuries when an army vehicle driven by a comrade overturned in Cyprus , was awarded £1 million agreed damages against the Ministry of Defence at the High Court in London yesterday . |
| 59 | She sued the Ministry of Defence at the Court of Session and the agreement was announced shortly before evidence had been due to start before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 60 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |