Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] of [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car .
2 well to be quite honest I 'll I 'll state my point of view at the moment .
3 ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time .
4 I do not remember now who wrote it , but it is no doubt from a modern German author , perhaps a philosopher , and it expresses exactly my state of mind at the beginning of 1958 .
5 We went to Edinburgh on our wedding tour and I thought it beautiful but I think that my state of mind at the time was such that I should have thought anywhere beautiful .
6 All students are required to enrol initially at the beginning of their course of study at the University , and to re-enrol annually , at the beginning of each academic year .
7 71000 ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ will appear a mere 12 miles from its birthplace of reincarnation at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough , along with Jubilee Class 45596 ‘ Bahamas ’ .
8 At present there is a tendency for researchers to define their field of study at the outset as being , for example , ‘ An investigation of the social representation of X. ’ They then include uncritically beliefs and dialogues about X as being aspects of the social representation .
9 The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half .
10 It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning .
11 The women showed their distrust of men at the wheel by citing all sorts of objections .
12 I am a longstanding member of the BAIE COMMUNICATORS IN BUSINESS ( established in 1949 ) and am a member of its Educational and Professional Development Committee , having , over the last three years , had totally and voluntary responsibility for its seminars in Scotland , in respect of which , on 28th May , I was honoured to receive the BAIE Chairman 's 1992/93 Award and to be one of its guests of honour at the Annual Conference Dinner in Torquay .
13 His wife , Barbara , made £508,000 as Millie 's Story , her tale of life at the top through the eyes of her dog , soared into the best seller list .
14 These were the feelings of loss at the death of her first husband , which she had not yet worked through , her sense of guilt at letting social services help out , and her feeling of remorse at the kind of marriage she could offer Stanley .
15 However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police .
16 This would increase the fitness of the class-members , their sense of well-being at the end of the session and also their physical appearance .
17 Zen slipped the tape back in its nest of grass at the foot of the pole and hurried back .
18 Finally , every provision of Community law must be placed in its context and interpreted in the light of the provisions of Community law as a whole , regard being had to the objectives thereof and to its state of evolution at the date on which the provision in question is to be applied . ’
19 As well as sending the hotel an updated booking position each month , Saga sent a final rooming list four weeks before your departure , confirming the names of clients taking up their allocation of rooms at the hotel .
20 She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter .
21 As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use .
22 However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station .
23 The ideology is talked about less ( though Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley has his hour of glory at the Conservative Party conference ) , but on the evidence so far it is doubtful whether Major 's much-vaunted caring image will ever filter through to meaningful policy change .
24 The knowledge that Puddephat had married one of his own students in the first place certainly threw a new light on his protestations of innocence at the inquest into the dead student .
25 Agonising about the Gold Standard decision , he wrote to his Controller of Finance at the Treasury , Sir Otto Niemayer : So one might ask whether by maintaining high interest rates to support the value of the pound against the Deutschmark , the British people were not being required to make untold sacrifices to match German interest rates , whose levels were in part at least caused by that country 's need to rebuild her eastern provinces .
26 Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know .
27 He believes , therefore , that his criticism of identity at the same time helps to put a stop to this virulent and mystifying doctrine .
28 I may continue to look for factors which will outweigh his prospects of enjoyment at the zoo .
29 His area of responsibility at the V&A will be Northern European sculpture between 1450 and 1700 , with special emphasis on German polychromed wood sculpture .
30 He turned away , his feeling of anguish at the nothingness of it all overwhelming him .
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