Example sentences of "the [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is noticeable that as the activities at school increase , the caretaker 's holiday entitlement is coming under increasing threat . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's got his own sleeping bag , and he 's a great guard dog in the tent at night , ’ Peter said . |
| 3 | But … there were tacos and pound cake from the school catering truck , a eucalyptus tree in the park at recess to nap beneath , reruns of old sitcoms to watch in the evening . |
| 4 | There had been sex too ; stumbling , frenetic rush to behind the sculptured bushes — carved in images of birds caught in flight — and the pulling of clothes , the trembling with fright and lust and the quiet , the absolute deathness of the park at night . |
| 5 | Gordon Bates , chief leisure officer , said street lighting round the lake would provide a safer environment for the public using the park at night and could allow that part of the park to be opened officially on an evening . |
| 6 | Darlington council should do something as quickly as possible to have repairs done to the perimeter fencing , they would be surprised at the number of people wandering through the park at night , plus the vandalism which is caused by certain people whose sole object is to thieve and destroy . |
| 7 | It will help to clarify the confusion a little if some of the tendencies at work in these centuries are noted . |
| 8 | I hated the exams at school I did n't think I 'd have to go all through them again . |
| 9 | Humans , the experts at text recognition , place relatively little importance on pattern recognition information once they become fluent readers . |
| 10 | The experts at Poly know that we want more from a perm than just curl so they have formulated a product that does much more . |
| 11 | On the very narrowest level , it seemed to him , Rudolf Hess must be a gold mine of strategic information , although the experts at SIS had said his position in the Nazi hierarchy was not perhaps all it had been or appeared to be . |
| 12 | The attendance of the remainder at school was discontinued and the house was closed to visitors ; it was visited by the Inspector of Nuisances for the Borough . |
| 13 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 14 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |
| 15 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 16 | Mr John E Kittelson , National Vice President of the United States Air Force Association , visited the Headquarters at Grove Park with his wife Marcia on 19 July 1991 . |
| 17 | Here is a simple example of the complexity at issue . |
| 18 | Top : Colonel JDC Wickes , the superintendent at the Palace of Holyroodhouse , who retires later this year , viewing the Prince of Wales 's watercolours , while ( below ) the prince at work in 1991 |
| 19 | But it 's well , ’ he said seriously , ‘ that you should have a token about you that will get you in to me or the prince at need , and stand you in good stead if ever you should fall foul unawares of any of his officers or mine . |
| 20 | ON the edge of limestone country , Ease Gill is classic limestone : at its lower end it is a dry " alley with an impressive cavernous " kirk " , and further upstream it has the waterfall at Cow Dub where the beck leaves a pure white flowstone bed to drop twenty feet through a collapsed cavern into a deep pool where it is again cupped in limestone . |
| 21 | When the energy is exactly E 1 or E 2 the orbits are circular of radii r 1 and r 2 respectively , but only the orbit at radius r 1 is stable . |
| 22 | Many believe that playing standards will improve only when more young players are attracted to rugby , which means getting them into the clubs at youth level . |
| 23 | Certain of the Group 's properties are included in the Accounts at valuation . |
| 24 | All children with confirmed active xerophthalmia or its sequelae ( corneal scars ) were withdrawn from the trial at diagnosis . |
| 25 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 26 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 27 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 28 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 29 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 30 | Banks may resist the attempts at rationing . |