Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lancashire side recorded their 11th successive home win , and were seven points clear of Ipswich at the top , when they beat Newcastle United in February . |
| 2 | They are obviously brimful of confidence at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 4 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 5 | You should obtain a Certificate of Posting , which is available free of charge at the counter . |
| 6 | Non-marketed services include all those public services which are provided free of charge at the point of consumption — health , defence , civil service , most schools , police , etc . |
| 7 | I intend speedily to provide a Quantity of Hysteric Drops , being apprehensive of Fits at the Sound of the Post-horn . |
| 8 | Nothing inadequate about his physical acting but his voice was his asset , the driest , most pungent of sherries at the command , so often , of Shakespeare 's verse , utterly lacking the fruitiness and histrionics of so many over-tired classical actors of his generation . |
| 9 | Claire 's enthusiasm is typical of students at the Spencer Centre in Northampton . |
| 10 | It seems likely that this is typical of tasks at the operational level , such tasks can be performed automatically and no episodic memory for their performance is normally formed . |
| 11 | Blanche 's commitment is typical of volunteers at the Darlington branch of the Red Cross . |
| 12 | When ARCO tired of losses at The Observer , Tiny Rowland 's Lonrho , already owner of a Glasgow daily , bought it . |
| 13 | You see , Father , ’ Corbett continued , ‘ some time ago Monsieur de Craon tried to gain access to Godstowe and was refused , so he looked around for someone to keep him appraised of developments at the priory , particularly Lady Eleanor 's movements . |
| 14 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 15 | Sort a er you know you you 're you 're happy but you 're full of go at the same time . |
| 16 | A week ago she would have been full of indignation at the thought of losing her accommodation . |
| 17 | He almost defies quotation , for his majestic sentences keep breaking into lengthy metaphors aside , full of wonder at the works of God around him . |
| 18 | OUR flower gardens are full of blossom at the moment , carried on plants that will not survive beyond the first few frosts of autumn . |
| 19 | ‘ On the contrary , they 'll be full of admiration at the success you 're making of your life . ’ |
| 20 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 21 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 22 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , Maud ! ’ laughed Mildred , full of joy at the sight of her best friend after the long summer holiday . |
| 24 | I was full of joy at the prospect of meeting Agnes the next day . |
| 25 | Gould left for Sydney , with plans to return in time for the birth , excited and full of anticipation at the prospect of ‘ fresh fields ’ . |
| 26 | Angela said : ‘ Everyone was full of praise at the reception . |
| 27 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
| 28 | It would appear , for example , that either the statement in the that Molla Kestelli was kadi of Istanbul at the time of the death of Molla Ala'al-Din Ali b . |
| 29 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 30 | Well , he was Front of House at the theatre . |