Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [be] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 2 | I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 4 | In face of all this , it is difficult to deny Mr Jay 's proposition : that it is the active exploitation by the unions of their monopoly of the supply of labour which is at the heart of the country 's chronic economic malaise . |
| 5 | It is in the context of such liturgical and meditative patterning of the Passion narrative that the two most powerful meditations attributed to Rolle should be studied in order to understand their full potential for helping that transformation of consciousness which is at the heart of mystical experience . |
| 6 | This may be an exaggerated view of the public 's overall reaction , but it is certainly not of a vocal minority : It is this pursuit of utopia which is at the heart of the reason why anyone concerned with buildings should understand and take into account the impact of planning control . |
| 7 | They were given intensive military training on Hainan island prior to going to Thailand in preparation for the invasion of Burma which was at an advanced planning stage . |
| 8 | We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case . |
| 9 | The condition of ‘ between-ness ’ is then one of doubling which is at the origin of ‘ fraternization ’ and transgression . |
| 10 | It is hoped that study of supply side aspects of macro-economic behaviour would increase the relevance of the model to the researchers ' studies of problems which are at the moment ill-fitted to discuss . |
| 11 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 12 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 13 | This is a group of executives who are at the top ; who respect each other ; who are highly committed ; and who agree that developing a viable vision and strategy is long overdue . |
| 14 | As Charles Wolf points out there had been mounting Congressional criticism of the Administration 's alleged neglect of Asia and although the strength of Republican feeling had been resisted in the matter of China it was at the cost of a critical concession in Southeast Asia generally — Vietnam in particular — which accorded , nevertheless , with the sentiments and announced global purposes of US policy : to resist communism , to encourage free peoples throughout the world , and to strengthen democratic nations against aggression . |
| 15 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 16 | It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard . |
| 17 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 18 | It was everyone 's dream to mix their album in their front room and that 's the kind of studio it was at the time . |
| 19 | The most recent and important example comes from the proposed Forest Bill of India which is at the time of writing about to come before Parliament . |
| 20 | It is this kind of darkness which is at the heart of the Cloud-author 's work and constitutes the cloud of unknowing . |
| 21 | Making the means of production into private property leads to exploitation , for if people have no access to the means of production they are at the mercy of those who do . |
| 22 | It is a means by which a relationship may be maintained with objects which are at the same time always potentially alienable . |
| 23 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 24 | Okay , yeah , that 's right , this s this series a particularly volatile period of economic history in the nineteen thirties , the Great Depression , in addition what 's at the end of the series ? |
| 25 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 26 | In Calcutta , Mike Gatting batted for six hours in his two innings , while in Madras he was at the crease for only 66 minutes and 21 runs . |
| 27 | 1.6 This allowance is based upon staff who are at the top of the grade at the present time and translates into the following : |
| 28 | He signalled to Yuan , and with the change in gravity he was at the entrance with his belt slung over one shoulder before Alexei started to cross the floor . |
| 29 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 30 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |