Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years ago , he had saved the life of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim ; a century later , Karelius reflected , an infinitely less important Englishman had again owed his life , besides that of the woman he loved , to one of the Hapsburgs ' men . |
| 2 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
| 3 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 4 | Historically , testing arose out of the desire to break down arbitrary barriers of class , race and nationality ; it was part of the democratisation of society at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Rothmans ' chairman Lord Swaythling , a Tory Peer , told of the threat to jobs at the company 's Darlington and Spennymoor plants in a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon . |
| 6 | Since Christie had the vote of the burgh of Stirling at his disposal after the Michaelmas elections of 1740 , when the friends of James Erskine of Grange were turned out of council by Christie 's party , Ilay and Milton showed their appreciation of the magistrate 's friendship by ensuring that Sir Robert Walpole recommended Mr. Christie to Sir Charles Wager to such effect that the admiral named Christie to the highly desirable post of lieutenant in a new frigate , with all the prospects of prize money which such an appointment entailed . |
| 7 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 8 | The Polytechnic must find it all the more galling that a situation has developed whereby an institute of higher education has become a sub-centre of the Faculty of Education at Cardiff for training further education teachers , a role that is denied to the Polytechnic because it has lost its involvement in the professional training of teachers . |
| 9 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 10 | In 1911 he was appointed dean of the faculty of theology at London University . |
| 11 | Akira Ohki , Tadashi Takeda , Makoto Takagi and Keihei Ueno , of the Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University , have published details of their system in Chemistry Letters , ( 1982 p 1529 ) . |
| 12 | The former dean of the faculty of science at Addis Ababa University , Tewolde B. G. Egziabher , adds that in the book Johanson ‘ makes remarks about Ethiopian politics and culture and about the behaviour of officials in government — bribes and ignorance and so forth . |
| 13 | Each level in the grouping hierarchy is numbered but " For some levels I will replace these numbers with names that are mnemonic of the correspondence of groups at this level with the rhythmic medium ( e.g. " 'syllables " " or " " tone units " " ) " ( pp. 137 – 8 ) . |
| 14 | Two year follow up of those who survived to leave hospital shows that while there is an increased mortality among the elderly this is entirely due to non-hepatic causes and that once survival is corrected for age there is no difference between the two cohorts , being of the order of 55% at one year and 50% at two years . |
| 15 | The Christians belonging to the millet-i-Rum were under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople at the top level , and locally under their own bishops . |
| 16 | Surviving examples include the Church of S. Salvador at Travanca , the Cathedral at Evora and the Church of the Convent of Christ at Tomar , all twelfth century but with considerable alterations in later periods . |
| 17 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |
| 18 | The fourth stage was the selection of the individual for interview at that address . |
| 19 | Specific advice should be included in the Branch handbook and training should be provided in order that managers understand what constitutes less favourable treatment , particularly in respect of the asking of questions at appraisal , at interview or before interview because negative assumptions are made about their ability to be mobile . |
| 20 | Place the three strips one on top of the other with seams at the back ; slipstitch ends together . |
| 21 | , William ( fl. 1323–1349 ) , mason and architect , belonged to a distinguished architectural family of East Anglia , descended from tenants of the abbot of Ramsey at Wyke Fen in Well since the twelfth century ( A. B. Whittingham in Archaeological Journal , vol. cxxvii , pp. 285–9 ) . |
| 22 | As can be imagined , in a place with such grand fishing traditions , people who go there regularly often become associated with particular lochs ; and that is very much part of the charm of fishing at Scourie . |
| 23 | Further evidence of the degree of concentration at this zonal scale is that 70 per cent of the rest of the population is housed in the rings . |
| 24 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 25 | ‘ I drank champagne with him from a pewter pot in the rooms of the Master of Trinity at Oxford in 1948 , ’ he wrote . |
| 26 | The sculptures of the temple of Zeus at Olympia |
| 27 | A LARGE and sumptuous Byzantine church , recently discovered in Istanbul , seems to have been modelled on biblical descriptions of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem . |
| 28 | He prepared the Elgin marbles for the new Duveen Gallery and reordered the component parts of the frieze of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae . |
| 29 | Designed by Thomas Hamilton , it is a copy of the temple of Lysistrates at Athens . |
| 30 | According to the inscription that it bears , it belonged to the son of a priest of the Temple of Horus at Edfu , in Upper Egypt . |