Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 2 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 3 | The same feeling broke in when I read an answer that the President of Venezuela gave at a press I conference . |
| 4 | Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford died at the age of thirty in 1373 leaving , like Lancaster , two coheiresses , though both were under age when their father died . |
| 5 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 6 | A flicker of admiration showed at the back of his dark eyes . |
| 7 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 8 | A tiny knot of tension throbbed at the back of her neck , running the length of her arms to her fingertips . |
| 9 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 10 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 11 | In any event , you would do well to strive to avoid the uncertainty of a dispute about the legal effect of words said at a time when tempers flare . |
| 12 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 13 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 14 | AQIB JAVED of Pakistan picked at the seam of a cricket ball in full view of BBC cameras at The Oval . |
| 15 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 16 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 17 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 18 | A £50,000 bottle of wine arrived at a New Zealand restaurant this week — smashed . |
| 19 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 20 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
| 21 | The Communist Party of Armenia voted at a congress on Sept. 7 to cease its activity . |
| 22 | A battery of guns stood at the edge of the village , some cavalry horses stood unsaddled in the street beyond , and a battalion of infantry was bivouacked in a field to the right of the guns , but otherwise the enemy was hidden , and so Sharpe stuck with his earlier estimate . |
| 23 | The overwhelming majority of Shetlanders employed at the airport are unskilled , semi-skilled ‘ blue collar ’ workers . |
| 24 | Sometimes Mr. Campbell can extend the licence for another nine months and about 40 to 50 percent of businesses started at the enterprise centre have gone on to greater success . |
| 25 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 26 | This trinity of faculties constituted the image of God and enabled in him a wisdom based on the knowledge of the reality of the love of God revealed at the Incarnation . |
| 27 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 28 | In America , an explicitly anti-Darwinian school of neo-Lamarckism emerged at a much earlier date , despite the initial success of Darwin 's supporters . |
| 29 | The Queen of Pleasures groped at the wall and switched on the light . |
| 30 | Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter . |