Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Egger left his job as buyer of English-language books at the Office du Livre in Fribourg ( OLF ) last November . |
| 2 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly did not want BSkyB to screen Paul Gascoigne 's Lazio comeback last night for fear of poor gates at home . |
| 3 | As a result of a growing awareness of the effects of these inhibiting factors and of the lack of success of previous strategies at user level in the late 1970s , the individual approach came into fashion supported by a number of initiatives . |
| 4 | A report by a commission set up by President Boris Yeltsin reveals the extent of dumping of nuclear materials at sea by Russia and the former Soviet Union [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 5 | Thanks to a decision by a federal jury on May 11th , Leonard Jeffries , a pioneer of this branch of scholarship , should soon be back in his old job as head of black studies at the City University of New York . |
| 6 | A working party to tackle the under representation of ethnic minorities at management level in the hospitality industry was set up by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 7 | Dissenters were visibly active in support of Whig candidates at the polls , and their electoral impact was often significant , since they might have comprised one-fifth of the total electorate , whilst in some constituencies the proportion of voters who were Nonconformists was much higher . |
| 8 | The band play a home town show in aid of local charities at the Brighton Centre on December 21 . |
| 9 | He replaces Bill Hills , who has retired , in charge of uniform operations at police headquarters in Durham . |
| 10 | Earlier this year they broke new ground by ‘ rehearsing ’ improvised material in front of small audiences at intimate venues across the land . |
| 11 | So you can bet there were raised eyebrows and knowing smiles when long-haired Moores hit the headlines recently after launching an amazing tirade on a Merseyside pressman in front of shocked hosts at Ipswich . |
| 12 | And he was hauled in front of senior officers at Bolton police HQ yesterday . |
| 13 | Now , however , we elaborate the left hand part of fig 4. 1 , in order to include this more complete picture of the communication process ( restricting the diagram to written language ) , and to illustrate how fig 4.1 can be applied to the study of style , concentrating on stylistic variation as choice of equivalent encodings at each of the three linguistic levels : |
| 14 | An upbeat message emerged from economist Mark Brown at stockbroker UBS Phillips & Drew who said his firm had switched from seller to buyer of domestic equities at these levels . |
| 15 | However , such comparison of gross product per head of different countries at contemporary exchange rates with the dollar gives misleading results . |
| 16 | Three leaders — President Carlos Andrés Pérez of Venezuela , President César Gaviria Trujillo of Colombia , and President Alberto Fujimori of Peru — stayed away on account of political problems at home . |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf has decided to buy in commercially available printed circuit boards and concentrate on production of complex boards at its Augsburg plant , but there are no further plant closure plans beyond those in Berlin and Cologne already announced . |
| 18 | [ For discussion of political issues at January 1990 Solidarity conference see p. 37383 . ] |
| 19 | Car retailers sell vehicles with various kinds of warranties concerning replacement of faulty parts at the suppliers expense . |
| 20 | Residual gastric contents were discarded , and basal gastric acid output was determined by collection of gastric contents at 15 minute intervals for 45 minutes . |
| 21 | More usually , therefore , the matching takes place retrospectively by rejection of non-matched subjects at the time of selection of S 1 and S 2 . |