Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corresponding 1991 figure showed 500 buy-outs completed at a cost of £2.6 billion . |
| 2 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 3 | CURRENT fashion in British gardening is illustrated among the gardens from 30 nations exhibited at the Floriade at The Hague , the dazzling horticulture show held in Holland only once every decade , which was opened by Queen Beatrix yesterday and will run for seven months . |
| 4 | ‘ It is generally thought from talks I have had with other chairman that there will be between 600 and 800 players released at the end of this season because clubs are seeking to trim their wage bills . |
| 5 | The exhibition gathers more than twenty of the forty sculptures shown at the Hayward Gallery , including such significant works as ‘ Rosebud ’ ( 1962 ) , ‘ Twilight ’ ( 1962 ) , the Tate Gallery 's ‘ Ghengis Khan ’ ( 1963 ) , ‘ Through ’ ( 1965 ) and ‘ Shiva 's Rings ’ ( 1978 ) from the Arts Council 's collection . |
| 6 | Four barricades , three of them protected by cannon , were built at the ends of the main streets , and 200 or 300 men posted at the bridge over the River Ribble , but no defences were built there . |
| 7 | This book consists of the texts of 12 papers presented at a symposium held at UMIST in September 1989 . |
| 8 | The first fifty refugees gathered at the top of the ladder , waiting for the boat to take them ashore . |
| 9 | Unless omissions or combinations can be justified the method should use the basic six stages described at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 10 | Above the cornice was an attic for the appropriate dedicatory inscription , while a large sculptural group surmounted the whole arch , usually in the form of a triumphal car with four or six horses flanked at the corners by statues . |
| 11 | In the introduction to the thirteen papers presented at the symposium held at Abo Akademi University in 1988 , Roger Sell tries to weave together the different strands by highlighting their central common core , namely that literature is a communicative discourse strictly related to ideology and power . |
| 12 | Then , barely 1,200 employees worked at the yard and the employee-led VSEL buy-out team built it back up to 2,500 . |
| 13 | Three mutations directed at the C-helix face of the protein have also been analysed . |
| 14 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 15 | The complete list is printed inside the cover of every certificate , and the following are samples only : rights of common , customary rights , public rights , right of sheepwalk , rights of way , rights of water , liability to repair highways by reason of tenure , liability to repair the chancel of any church , liability to repair embankments and sea or river walls , rights under local land charges , rights of fishing and sporting , manorial and seignorial rights of all descriptions ( until extinguished ) , leases for any term not exceeding 21 years granted at a rent without taking a fine , etc ( s70(1) ( a ) — ( k ) ) . |
| 16 | On April 22 some 200,000 demonstrators protested at the cuts . |
| 17 | In the three examples given at the beginning , having to do with the sound of the traffic , the windscreen wipers , and the warm left knee , a cause and each condition are naturally taken to be required for the effect , as distinct from alternatively required . |
| 18 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
| 19 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 20 | Just over a year ago , over a thousand biologists gathered at an international meeting in Vancouver . |
| 21 | Herewith a ‘ special-cheap-ish limited edition CD-only jobbie featuring 18 tracks recorded at the Muses ’ two London Grand shows way back not so long ago . |
| 22 | Yet an uneasy feeling had been steadily growing among the ten thousand workers employed at the plant that the benefits which Clasper 's militancy had achieved were illusory . |
| 23 | Some of the thirty thousand workers employed at the Midlands plants , incensed by the idleness forced on them by the Merseysiders and alarmed at the bleak prospect ahead , stormed through the streets to Clem Bunker 's regional office demanding action to get the Merseyside plants back to work . |
| 24 | DEC 1992 Safetips launched at the Staff Conference to give staff the opportunity to contribute towards a safer working environment and to enhance the safety culture . |
| 25 | During the same weekend , 1,500 demonstrators gathered at the Royal Navy Polaris submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde . |
| 26 | Nearly five thousand job losses have been announced with four thousand redundancies announced at the National Westminster Bank and eight hundred within the Department of Employment . |
| 27 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 28 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 29 | Five minutes spent at the Health Centre looking at the patient 's notes , and someone has removed my medical bag with all my portable diagnostic equipment inside it . |
| 30 | An assembly of nine essays aimed at the informed specialist , on aspects of Ruskin 's links with tradition . |