Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 2 | They also intend to encourage groups of inmates at the prisons they are visiting to hold their own fundraising events to further support their efforts . |
| 3 | Sir George Porter , of the Royal Institution in London , and George Pimentel , then associate professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley , began work on exploiting matrix isolation in 1954 . |
| 4 | One of the village pubs , the Cherry Tree still has mementos of festivities at the well ; including a vial of well water mixed with river-water from the Ganges brought over for centenary celebrations in 1964 . |
| 5 | They judge that this form of organisation permits the cooperatives to obtain advantages of scale at the level of administration , coordination and planning while retaining the benefits of relatively small operating units i. e. maximum scope for democratic accountability ( Campbell , 1980 , pp. 12–13 ) . |
| 6 | The country has frozen imports of CFCs at the 1991 level of 15,648 tonnes ; according to the Industry Ministry imports to August this year were in line with last year 's total of 10,044 tonnes . |
| 7 | Later in the month I visited Strains of War at the Greenwich Citizens Gallery . |
| 8 | Hence if the master does not issue the above mentioned bill of lading at the time of loading , the merchandise is declared well taken or captured . |
| 9 | PUNTERS have a 3,600 to one chance of becoming victims of crime at the Cheltenham Festival , Gloucestershire police said yesterday . |
| 10 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 11 | As acting professor of history at the University College of the West Indies ( 1954 ) he began The Road to Self-Rule ( 1959 ) . |
| 12 | Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning . |
| 13 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 14 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 15 | In a note issued in June , Panmure Gordon predicted profits of £39m at the September year-end and £43m in 1993 on sales it foresees nearing £500m . |
| 16 | They had ceased to bring him food at the end of the first day , taken away his carefully hoarded drop of water at the end of the second , and the third refusal had cost him his coarse blankets and the thin straw palliasse on his plank bed . |
| 17 | Lord Melchett , educated at Eton , former Labour Minister of State for Northern Ireland , became head of Greenpeace at the beginning of 1989 , near the beginning of the membership boom . |
| 18 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 19 | But this would make nonsense of events at the end of April , when Gloucester was able to seize possession of the prince from an unsuspecting earl Rivers . |
| 20 | This passage is given pride of place at the start of the title on trusts in UE , but it is not a very laudable analysis of the notion of a trust . |
| 21 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom last year failed to make enough operating profit to offset losses by its sister units , according to yesterday 's edition of Focus magazine : the weekly reckons that Telekom 's 1992 profit totalled about $4,065m and after transferring $3,125m to the government , it was left with only $935m to offset losses of $1,685m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst postal service and $185m at the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank savings bank . |
| 22 | Example disposal : assume receipt of instructions at the start of December 19Y0 |
| 23 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 24 | Many supporters of Dr McNab exchanged glances of dismay at the words they had just heard . |
| 25 | The next year he displayed photographs of Ireland at the Society of Antiquaries . |
| 26 | It is important to prevent the damaged wrist from suddenly flexing , and you can afford to reduce freedom of movement at the joint without losing technical effectiveness . |
| 27 | The Committee for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity ( CRII-RAD ) revealed that it had found traces of plutonium at the dump . |
| 28 | The draft drawn up by the Yeltsin team would enshrine his emergency powers to run matters of state at the expense of parliament . |
| 29 | Kim Il Sung may have feared rumblings of discontent at the money spent on building the sports arenas and on entertaining delegates to the Festival . |
| 30 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |