Example sentences of "of a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster of a school at the centre of allegations into sex abuse is to take early retirement on medical grounds . |
| 2 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 3 | The number of hotel-based leisure complexes that do not take into consideration the operation of a facility at the same time as its aesthetics are plain for all to see . |
| 4 | ‘ With the help of a clerk at the builders ’ merchants he stole eight hundred pounds from his uncle . |
| 5 | Arrangements are under way for the hosting of a lunch at the 1992 Autumn meeting in Dublin . |
| 6 | The boiling point of a liquid at the new standard pressure ( 100 kPa ) would then be referred to as the " baric boiling point " or " b.b.n . " . |
| 7 | In Scaramouche the main character , intent on avenging the death of a friend at the hands of an unscrupulous marquis , joins a band of travelling players and becomes involved in the French revolution . |
| 8 | For the inexperienced debtor the arrival of a bailiff at the front door could be a harrowing experience , said the National Consumer Council . |
| 9 | So the good Lord 's timely intervention in the form of a burglar at the back door of Steve Sustad 's North London address the night before D-Day might spell bad news for some insurance company , but I sure was n't complaining . |
| 10 | Just as she , Fru Møller , was adjusting to the need for a doctor and the possibility of a corpse at The Tamarisks , the same Miss Danziger did the rounds of the tables apologising for the shock and upset she had caused . |
| 11 | There is visible evidence in Kidderminster yard of the installation of a turntable at the end near the footbridge which divides the yard from the station . |
| 12 | Drawings can often give views of the site that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a physical reconstruction , such as aerial or cutaway views , showing both the interior and exterior of a building at the same time . |
| 13 | His shirt was n't clean and he had the beginnings of a pimple at the corner of his mouth and another about to burst above the knot of his cravat . |
| 14 | Anyway , there 's a bit of a lull at the moment before I start helping out with the encyclopedic dictionary . |
| 15 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) Subject to section 13(2) of this Act , if no application is made for the renewal of a licence at the quarterly meeting mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , the licence shall expire on the first day of that meeting . |
| 17 | ‘ She lost less weight on Saturday than she had at York and we have got to think of a crack at the Arc . |
| 18 | the division of a word at the end of a line . |
| 19 | The cause of the tears was the arrival , a few days earlier , of a parcel at the busy Buckingham Palace office which she shared with Michael Colbourne , who was then in charge of the Prince 's finances , and several others . |
| 20 | The mucky message carried the name of a constable at the top . |
| 21 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 22 | Oscar Wilde 's Ballad of Reading Gaol tells of the hanging of a trooper at the prison : |
| 23 | There were ways of treating prisoners properly , and of recognising that they had certain claims upon their captors ; there were also rules about the taking , sharing , and disposing of booty and pillage ; there were signs of formal war , such as the unfurling of banners or the setting off of a cannon at the start of a siege , which informed all those present that a certain legal situation now existed , hostilities having been formally declared . |
| 24 | yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than |
| 25 | ‘ I became aware of a disturbance at the back of my house . |
| 26 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 27 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 29 | Melissa had been intrigued to know what kind of man could persuade Iris to leave her beloved garden for the best part of a fortnight at the height of the growing season . |
| 30 | Precise instructions as to the building of a hedge at the brim of the water were given . |