Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [noun] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Boundaries that attempt to protect life and its development are at the root of the Ten Commandments . |
| 3 | His fearsome single knockout punch is no longer a factor and its absence is at the centre of Piper 's plans . |
| 4 | Rhodes and her baby were at the centre of a nationwide hunt last month when they went missing . |
| 5 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 6 | All this may seem mere words , but words and their meaning are at the heart of the planning process . |
| 7 | It was odd when he came to think about it , but every now and again one or two of them would be posted , yet the five men who had accompanied him from Cranwell , and whose beds were at the far end of the hut , were still here . |
| 8 | ‘ But my spine is at the back . ’ |