Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [is] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was now a colleague of Bernard 's at the poly . |
| 2 | With the stimulus parameters usually employed to produce LTP , the duration of PTP is at most a few minutes . |
| 3 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
| 4 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
| 5 | Maggie 's then boyfriend — and later husband — Beverley Cross , became a close friend of Ken 's at the time , too . |
| 6 | Donahue Silvis , an exact contemporary of Dustin 's at Pasadena Playhouse , had a bit-part in Midnight Cowboy when the team moved to Florida . |
| 7 | It was Harold F. Brooks , a colleague of Hardy 's at Birkbeck College , who contributed to the debate on English studies at Cambridge carried by the press and other media early in 1981 , by complaining that " much of the resort to " isms and " ologies " amounts to " duncery " , and is thus " a menace to the commonwealth of letters , and so to civilization " . |
| 8 | The health of a third of the population of England is at risk from air pollution , according to a Greenpeace study , with children and old people particularly vulnerable . |
| 9 | The idea of Tyneside is at least as old as the middle of the nineteenth century when modern industrial interests combined with local radical politicians to wrest control of the river from the city of Newcastle which until then had exercised a medieval monopoly . |
| 10 | What the media , whether television or the press , never pick up is an occasion such as this , when the House of Commons is at its best in terms of the relationships between people in all parts of the House . |
| 11 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 12 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 13 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 14 | David Coleridge announced that he will resign as chairman of Lloyd 's at the end of the year . |
| 15 | On July 27 David Coleridge announced that he would resign as chair of Lloyd 's at the end of 1992 . |
| 16 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 17 | It was very peaceful in the front hall of Hoggatt 's at eight-forty in the morning . |
| 18 | A friend of Watt 's at the University introduced him to John Roebuck , an industrialist who was involved with coal mines and iron works in Scotland . |
| 19 | In the first instance the picture of God is at fault because it is all wrong , and in the second because it is too small . |
| 20 | In him the spirit of God is at work . |
| 21 | THE director of a Romanian orphanage sent supplies by the lorryload from the people of Sudbury is at last enjoying the chance to say thank you in person . |
| 22 | I am aware that the economic situation of Italy is at the moment rather troubled , but I feel confident that piracy is not among our bad habits . |
| 23 | Some 47 per cent of Britain is at risk from further damage by acid rain by the year 2005 , according to a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and prepared by the Earth Resources Research consultancy . |
| 24 | He also commissions M. Bijou de Millecolonnes , who despises the ancients , and whose ‘ lightness , gaiety , and originality ’ are the antipodes of the ‘ solidity , solemnity and correctness ’ of Sir Carte Blanche , to build in a ‘ wild sequestered spot ’ in Regent 's Park a pavilion reminiscent of Nash 's at Brighton , which gives rise to a rumour ‘ that the Zoological Society intended to keep a Bengal tiger au naturel , and that they were contriving a residence which would amply compensate him for his native jungle ’ . |
| 25 | Abel Ferrara 's Ms 45 Angel of Vengance is at least a wittier variation on the same theme , played as straightforward exploitation entertainment , with men as most of its victims . |
| 26 | While Connors became a protege of Segura 's at sixteen years old , Jimmy also had had the benefit of coming from a strong tennis family . |
| 27 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 28 | One can sympathise with owners of great houses , faced with tax and running costs , but let them not think that furnishings of the standing of Kent 's at Houghton can simply be dispensed with as ‘ surplus to requirements ’ and that their loss from the house would not in future be regretted . |
| 29 | Dr Kieran Breen , who heads the research team , said it was hoped a simpler , faster test could be developed to detect the onset of Alzheimer 's at an earlier age . |
| 30 | At the Princess of Wales 's at Richmond on July 15th 1720 Lady Grisell noted that the " Deseart " was " a big dish in the Midle with connections and frute only " , and on April 12th 1725 , at the Duke of Chandos ' magnificent house at Canons , near Ed are , with " A Duson at Table " there was " ane Eparn in the Midle . |