Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] at " in BNC.

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1 Not many people know this , but Othello is the only game at which a computer has beaten the world champion .
2 When Karen and I used to feast on each other 's bodies , Dennis was the unseen guest at the table .
3 The Falcon 's Joe Stamper was the only winner at Colchester — Essex play notoriously badly on their own carpets — but the late surge in Norfolk had done enough to secure the majority of the points .
4 Tunguska was a 15-Mton airburst at an altitude of roughly a scale height .
5 Ken was a great observer at all times .
6 Another hotel that would make a good starting point for a weekend — or longer — in East Anglia is the Black Lion at Long Melford .
7 The anthropologist , Steven Mosher is a doctoral student at Stanford .
8 Bishop Gray was the chief celebrant at mass in St Anthony 's Church , Woodhouse Park , Wythenshawe , and afterwards there was a reception and presentation in the parish centre .
9 Both he and his half-back partner , Gary Armstrong , might be forgiven if thoughts turned to British Lions selection for the summer tour to New Zealand but Gavin Hastings , another candidate in that department who is now being touted as Lions skipper , was adamant that performing for Scotland was the only issue at stake .
10 Johnny Morris is a past master at both .
11 Inder Uppal is the senior officer at Hounslow Community Relations Council ( HCRC ) , funded by the borough and the Commission for Racial Equality .
12 The combined result of khozraschet and the over-centralized and ill-informed onslaught oh the local press by Agitprop was a fast decline at guberniia and lower levels : of the 802 papers in existence on 1 January 1922 , a mere 313 remained by 1 July .
13 Hayling was a brilliant pupil at school and was soon marked down as Oxbridge material .
14 One of the facts of Caribbean life that suited Stephen was the early hour at which people rose to start the day .
15 Paul Bannon was the unlikely hero at the RDS yesterday when his late goal secured victory and with it the Bord Gais Premier Division title for Cork City .
16 The pocket book covers the year 1810 , when Shelley was a 17-year-old schoolboy at Eton .
17 He said : ‘ As far as I 'm concerned this one on Wednesday is the big game at the moment .
18 Margaret Gantzer ( Professor Chatterjee ) over from Delhi is a visiting Fellow at Wolfson College , Oxford , fromJanuary toJuly 1991 and is looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones .
19 Mike was an excellent shot at short and long distances and taught me how to control my weapon , how to change magazines with a simple wrist flick operation , and where it was best to hit a person if you wanted to be sure of incapacitating him .
20 J B Graham of Maidstone was the lucky discoverer at an antiques fair of an exceptional piece of World War Imperial Austrian Air Force memorabilia .
21 Mr Shahiduddin Postman was a familiar figure at the house : every morning after delivering our mail he would squat outside the front gate , smoking a bidi with the mali , a man to whom he bore a certain resemblance .
22 During the period of the visit , Professor Collard was a Visting Professor at the Delhi School of Economics .
23 ( In the light of which it is pleasing to discover that in 1566 , when Rainoldes was a 17-year-old student at Oxford , he acted the part of a female in a play composed tor Queen Elizabeth — see Paine , The Learned Men , 23 ) .
24 Peron was a political patron at the highest level , who offered his workers definite improvements in return for their support on which he depended .
25 Gordon Bradley is a familiar face at the Shrewsbury Flower Show , he has been exhibiting his arrangements there for the past 25 years .
26 WESTHOLME is the each-way value at 25–1 with Coral and Ladbrokes .
27 And the decorations are really special because Rita and bill spend their working lives creating exciting visual extravaganzas for other people — Bill is a creative director at the advertising agency McCann Erickson , and Rita , who trained as a fashion designer , now makes spectacular dried flower arrangements using yards of draped silk .
28 DESPITE his tough political image , veteran Liberal Sir Trevor Jones is a soft touch at heart … says his daughter , Louise .
29 Roosevelt was a dying man at Yalta and it is a matter for speculation as to how far his judgements were influenced by his health .
30 Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted .
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