Example sentences of "to [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) The names of all the directors of a recognised body shall be stated either on the body 's stationery or in a list of the names of all the directors maintained at the body 's registered office provided that in the latter case the body 's stationery must state that such a list of all the directors ' names is open to inspection at the body 's registered office and must state the address of that office . |
| 3 | Suddenly the 180 million people loyal to Communism at the end of the war had turned into 800 million . |
| 4 | Before long he had switched to ukulele , and graduated from there to guitar at the age of eleven . |
| 5 | It was not possible , however , to ‘ convert ’ the Saracens ; they had a policy of religious expansionism too — seeking to convert all unbelievers to Islam at the point of the sword . |
| 6 | ON AIR : John Leslie gives a few TV tips to Colin at the Blue Peter Studio . |
| 7 | I went to university at the Sorbonne in Paris , entered the royal service , and joined the French crown 's legion of secret agents called the Luciferi , the Light-Bearers . |
| 8 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 9 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |
| 10 | Recall that parasitic oscillation takes place if the magnitude of the loop gain is greater than or equal to unity at the frequency at which the phase shift becomes . |
| 11 | Fox turned down a move to Hull at the weekend but Northern had to match the Humbersiders ' £140,000 offer before clinching the deal . |
| 12 | In the town of Khan Younis , soldiers shot dead a muezzin , a Muslim who calls worshippers to prayer at the mosque , local sources said . |
| 13 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 14 | In some cases these Rios 2 chips will overlap the PowerPC in performance while others should outperform it 50% to 100% at the same clock speeds thanks to superscalar technology . |
| 15 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 16 | In 1968 she delivered the PCE 's protest to Moscow at the invasion of Czechoslovakia and supported Santiago Carrillo , her successor as secretary-general , in his espousal of Eurocommunism against Soviet criticisms , despite her own reservations . |
| 17 | Subsequently , however , under pressure from more radical mujaheddin groups , Mujjaddedi withdrew his support for Soviet-mujaheddin talks , and on Oct. 28 the Bakhtar Information Agency in Kabul announced that Borhanuddin Rabani , rather than Mujadedi , was to head a delegation of Afghan opposition groups to Moscow at the end of October or beginning of November . |
| 18 | Bacterially-expressed Jun-Core and Jun-Core mutants ( mutated to alanine at the positions indicated ) were used in a kinase assay with purified DNA-PK . |
| 19 | The best and most experienced accounting officers come out about all square and do not have to suffer the indignity of having to ask their ministers to present supplementary estimates to Parliament at the end of the financial year . |
| 20 | She was elected to Parliament at the general election in April . |
| 21 | In a letter to parliament at the beginning of June , the Dutch Minister of Culture , Mrs Hedy D'Ancona , made known her decision to allow the deaccessioning of the works of art to go ahead . |
| 22 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 23 | She was a newcomer to Parliament at the last election . |
| 24 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |
| 25 | ‘ Last night there was a telephone call to Joel at the sanatorium . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ agreed Mildred , dragging the cat from her front and reducing the cardigan to shreds at the same time . |
| 27 | Apart from the usual salute to Artemisia at the beginning , the drift of the poem is towards criticism rather than praise . |
| 28 | But the police continued their enquiries into the activities of the PIE , and in 1980 two other members of the group were brought to trial at the Old Bailey . |
| 29 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 30 | Some 22 demonstrators and activists were brought to trial at the Beijing municipal intermediate court on Jan. 5 and 26 , in connection with the pro-democracy demonstrations which ended in the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4 , 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |