Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’ |
| 2 | For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity . |
| 3 | However , I had seen such sights before , in my days at primary school , and despite the use of Patriots , Jubilees and even Royal Scots on the more prestigious sets of wagons , it was the early afternoon express traffic which was the focal point of my attention . |
| 4 | Last month the Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ) announced it would soon require insurers ( along with banks and some other financial firms ) to show financial assets in their accounts at current market value , rather than at original cost . |
| 5 | The first Arbuthnot came to Ireland in 1798 to try the rebels who had burned the English garrison alive in their barracks at Prosperous . |
| 6 | Does everybody have to be in their studies at quiet time ? |
| 7 | League leaders Whitby , with former Darlington assistant manager Tony McAndrew in their line-up at left back , were beaten 1–0 by fast-improving Peterlee . |
| 8 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 9 | In summary , the service and intermediate classes will be compared with the working class in their attendance at selective as opposed to non-selective schools . |
| 10 | For example , the two charges may be of some atomic distance ( of the order of 10 -10 m ) apart , whereas we are interested in their effect at macroscopic distances ; or take the so-called dipole aerial where the assumed separation of charges is small in comparison with the wavelength of oscillation . |
| 11 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 12 | She wrote no books , but her strong views on education were expressed in her evidence in 1894 to the Bryce commission on secondary education ; in her speeches at educational conferences ; and in her pamphlets , especially ‘ The Education of the Majority ’ ( a plea for middle schools for boys and girls between the ages of twelve and sixteen ) , ‘ The Training of Teachers ’ , and ‘ A National Education and its Application to Wales ’ . |
| 13 | She mentions that there was another girl in her class at high school who was also called Denice Lewis and also had blonde hair . |
| 14 | Semi-literate after a cursory schooling , he had a talent for music , being proficient enough with a violin to be billed in his teens at local places of entertainment as the ‘ modern Paganini ’ . |
| 15 | Vincent Hickey is already under observation after being discovered with slash wounds in his cell at Long Lartin jail near Evesham . |
| 16 | This decided them that more work was needed to verify whether there was indeed fusion , and so they began to plan out a detailed strategy and designed an experiment — ‘ scaling it ’ in the sense that Fleischmann had learned in his days at Imperial College . |
| 17 | I went to visit him in his room at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village on the north end of Waimea Bay . |
| 18 | William John McCoubrey ( 35 ) lay dead in his house at Blackmountain Grove , Belfast , for two or three days last March before he was found by a relative . |
| 19 | Even if someone were to leave the Department , or drop dead-even if you were to , what 's the expression , take out a contract on one of us ’ — he laughs to show that this is a joke , displaying a number of chipped and discoloured teeth , set in his gums at odd angles , like tombstones in a neglected churchyard — ‘ even then , I very much doubt whether we should get a replacement . |
| 20 | We hope your debates prove interesting and decisi decisive in furtherance of your own policies and in addressing some of the problems which we face in our society at large . |
| 21 | For further statistics , you may like to look in your library at recent editions of SOCIAL TRENDS , the GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY , SOCIAL SECURITY STATISTICS and the FAMILY EXPENDITURE SURVEY . |