Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my agent can pick up their traces clear of the garrison at Castell Coch I 'll have my friends from Gwynedd running for Aber within a week . |
| 2 | Energy-efficiency is top of the agenda at Laing Homes ' latest development in Surrey , the soon to be released Woodland Rise on the site of the former Cheam Hospital . |
| 3 | THERE 'S no doubt Nick Faldo is top of the class at golf — and yesterday he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Hertfordshire . |
| 4 | Between them Gareth and Jonathan were also top of the class at RBAI in seven subjects as well . |
| 5 | Employees will be informed as soon as possible of the venue at Barlaston where a doctor will be on hand to answer , in confidence , any queries about transplants and the work of the Trust . |
| 6 | My brother Jack , tired of the atmosphere at home , had left when he was 16 to live with friends , and Uncle Joe started coming round when he knew my parents would be out . |
| 7 | There were harrowing scenes , remiscent of the disaster at Towyn , as possessions were piled onto lawns . |
| 8 | AN INVESTIGATION was started yesterday after a Loganair Advanced Turboprop aircraft landed short of the runway at Kirkwall Airport in Orkney . |
| 9 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 10 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 11 | The British , perhaps because they are jealous of the splendour at Versailles , are fond of recounting how the courtiers used to relieve themselves in the passageways . |
| 12 | Germans , however , spend more per head , around £60 , compared to £44 in Britain while Italy is bottom of the league at £28 per head . |
| 13 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise . |