Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 2 | Edward VI 's Bill of 1547 encountered a great deal of opposition throughout English society not only because it concerned the chantries but also because it struck at the system of confraternities on which much of medieval life was based . |
| 3 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 4 | Aziz claimed that the budget aimed at the transfer of resources from rich to poor and it accordingly avoided measures which would be unpopular among the majority of the population . |
| 5 | Each wore a dark green velvet mantle , close-fastened against the weather with gold cords and tassels , while her unbound hair , entwined at the crown with ropes of pearls , was covered with a transparent white veil . |
| 6 | Until it was developed , prawn hatcheries would remain at the mercy of factors beyond their control . |
| 7 | That leaves many at the mercy of landlords in a tough market … like this young woman who was told to get out after falling one week behind with her rent . |
| 8 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 9 | The prosperity of the Catalan economy had thus come to be at the mercy of events outside Spain . |
| 10 | These charges were collected at the ports by agents for the lighthouses . |
| 11 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 12 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 13 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |
| 14 | She looked pleadingly at the man in overalls as if he might step in and save her . |
| 15 | At the heart of attempts by firms in Britain to introduce modern technology is a battle for control of the shopfloor between management and factory worker . |
| 16 | The contention that ‘ unemployment dominated every municipal election at least until 1937 , and lay at the heart of discussions within the LLP ’ is difficult to reconcile with the detailed programmes promoted by the LLP in London County Council ( LCC ) or local elections ( see , for example , Labour News , February and April 1925 ) . |
| 17 | The process of economic convergence , which after all is at the heart of plans for economic and monetary union , will be greatly eased by a return to positive economic growth in Europe and in the more immediate future by lower German interest rates . |
| 18 | Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ? |
| 19 | Once at the heart of battles between Florence and Siena , San Sano is a mere hamlet about 13 miles north of Siena . |
| 20 | I have around 15 more good years ahead of me , but I fail to see plenty of room at the top for women like me . |
| 21 | The bay was defined by fine trees at the top of cliffs at one side , and at the westward extremity towards the open sea a strange cluster of white rocks split off from the chalk cliff . |
| 22 | Mosley himself admired Lloyd George 's qualities of leadership and had been impressed by his energy and administrative skills at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1916 . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State will remember my exchanges with the Prime Minister in respect of volunteering , so he will understand my regret at the reduction in opportunities for those who want to volunteer for the TAVR in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | AS FRENCH outrage at the dismissal of charges against M Paul Touvier for alleged crimes committed during the Nazi occupation grew yesterday , the National Assembly suspended its afternoon session so that deputies could attend a demonstration at the Memorial of Deportation on the Ile de la Cite . |
| 25 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |
| 26 | ‘ Bloody second-year essays , ’ he remarked , gesturing at the pile of papers in his lap . |
| 27 | At the beginning of hostilities against Germany on 4 August 1914 , Wolverton companies F & G ( later under the four company system they became part of C & D companies ) were mobilised and the Battalion was formed complete at Aylesbury , before midnight . |
| 28 | Since the publication of the General Theory there had always been a nagging sense of unease at the treatment of prices in Keynesian macroeconomics . |
| 29 | In looking at the size of endowments for these houses it is important to recognize the wider benefits that are secured . |
| 30 | We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers . |