Example sentences of "[noun prp] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrests of Islamic fundamentalists in April 1989 ( see p. 36603 ) were followed by a security clampdown in mid-May at the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan which included a ban on open-air prayer meetings outside mosques in many potential trouble spots including slum areas of Cairo and fundamentalist strongholds in Upper Egypt . |
| 2 | IT WAS BNFL which drew the applause at Buxton at the end of the Company-sponsored Quest for New Musicals , which has been described as a ‘ resounding success . ’ |
| 3 | Coincidentally , Sarah Vickerstaff had already arranged to teach a personnel management course in Novosibirsk at the end of February before ESRC had approved of the project . |
| 4 | Gary Scott out-sprinted his Newry Haldane Fisher teammate Barry Monaghan and Clann Eireann 's Kieran Downey at the finish of the 80km Cicli Sport Grand Prix , promoted by the RT Autoparts East Tyrone CC at Moneymore . |
| 5 | On 22 June 168 BC Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated King Perseus of Macedon at the Battle of Pydna . |
| 6 | A three-day visit to Mogadishu on Jan. 3-5 by UN Assistant Secretary-General James O. C. Jonah at the Office for Research and the Collection of Information failed to end the fighting under way in the city since mid-November between the Abgal clan supporters of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed and the Habar Gadir supporters of Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid . |
| 7 | Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system . |
| 8 | I would play the amateur circuit to get some hard competitive experience , enter the qualifying school in Portugal at the end of the year , and be a fully fledged tournament pro in the following season . |
| 9 | Soon after the Iraqi onslaught , reports were received that Iraq 's two southern oil-export terminals close to Fao at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab , Mina al-Bakr and Khor al-Amayyah , were under attack by Iranian warships . |
| 10 | The show of dissent did n't do Foster 's England chances any harm as 72 hours later he was told of his recall by Essex skipper Graham Gouch at the expense of Lancashire 's Phil de Freitas . |
| 11 | Despatched to Necromunda at the request of an ancestor of the present Lord Helmawr , those Space Marines had maintained a fortified base in the Palatine ever since . |
| 12 | EVER since Greece won its freedom from the Turks in the 1820s — no , ever since the Turks took Constantinople on that black Tuesday at the end of May in 1453 — the Greeks have had a Megali Idea , a Great Idea . |
| 13 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |
| 14 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 15 | What was worse for Scotland was the knowledge that in the test they would also be facing Eales and McCall at the line-out plus Lynagh , Horan and Campese in the backs . |
| 16 | In the London League , Hampstead and Spencer overtook Surbiton , who snatched a draw at Purley ; Ben Rhydding , beaten 3-2 by Sheffield , were overhauled by Preston and Alderley Edge in the North ; while Trojans , held 2-2 by Anchorians , were joined by Chichester at the top of the South . |
| 17 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 18 | DID you yearn for Humphrey Bogart to fly away with Ingrid Bergman at the end of Casablanca ? |
| 19 | Can you , if you can let , simply let me have those in at the end of the session or if you can give them to Eleanor at the end of the session . |
| 20 | More settlers of North European stock gradually moved into present day East Texas at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The last rites of the VORRSA were played out at Welshpool at the end of September , when the assets were transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . |
| 22 | In himself , Couples has the potential to displace Borg at the top of the pyramid of Great Baffled Victims of Success . |
| 23 | Yanayev 's nomination as Vice-President had been forced through by Gorbachev at the Congress of People 's Deputies on Dec. 27 , 1990 [ see p. 37904 ] . |
| 24 | Tony Lewis gave the address at the memorial service for John Arlott at the Church of St John the Baptist in Alresford , Hampshire on Jan 20 . |
| 25 | On the basis that these remedial measures were in hand , the judge did not grant the injunction sought by SPAG at the end of March 1985 . |
| 26 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 27 | HARLEQUINS , who will be defending the Pilkington Cup against mighty Bath at Twickenham on May 2 , hope to be at strength for the postponed Courage League One match with Orrell at the Stoop on Easter Monday . |
| 28 | Mr McNeilage added that Alistair is due to leave Rwanda at the end of February . |
| 29 | A political statement released by the PNC at the end of the session called for an international conference on the Middle East , under UN supervision , to be convened on the basis of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 ( 1967 — see pp. 22473 ; 25029 ; 34898 ) and 338 ( 1973 — see p. 26197 ) , and the guaranteeing of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people , of which the most important was " the right to self-determination " . |
| 30 | Hankin signalled the start of that new youth policy by leaving out defender Kevan Smith Andy Toman was given the responsibility of captaining the side and pairing youngsters Sunley and Gregan at the centre of defence . |