Example sentences of "at a [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of Education and Religious Affairs , Vassilis Kondoyannopoulous , resigned on Jan. 9 after disturbances at a school in Patras the previous day , in which a teacher was killed , reportedly by right-wing elements , and three other teachers were injured . |
| 2 | At a function in Bucharest the British Ambassador asked for something from home . |
| 3 | A motor car bought for resale at a cost of £3,500 the retail price of which was £5,000 . |
| 4 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 5 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 6 | At a meeting in Washington the committee adopted a resolution urging the 118 CITES members to enforce a trade embargo on these countries unless they take significant steps to stop the trade . |
| 7 | On July 3 at a meeting in Rome the Albanian Prime Minister Ylli Bufi discussed the problem with Margherita Boniver , the Italian Immigration Minister . |
| 8 | At a meeting in Frankfurt the West German Federation refused steadfastly to bow to mounting pressure from the Grand Slam committee to sanction the cup . |
| 9 | It seems that there is still some mileage in the situation which arose in February 1992 , when at a meeting in Minsk the presidents of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed the now infamous Agreement on the Return of Cultural and Historical Treasures to their States of Origin ( The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 2 ) . |
| 10 | SIX YEARS AGO , at a conference in Argentina the United Nations set a target for the 1980s : clean water and sanitation for all . |
| 11 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |