Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviews play no part in the selection procedure for the majority of the faculties at Edinburgh ; decisions are made on the basis of the information submitted on the UCAS form . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would be better to seek the contemporary witness of the Spirit in ecumenical discussions , where all could contribute their special insight and the Holy Spirit would , doubtless , be found along with the majority of the votes at the end of the day ? |
| 3 | The De Haan family , which owns 63 per cent of the travel to financial services company , said it was considering an offer to buy the remainder of the shares at about £3 each . |
| 4 | David Levine 's study of four villages between about 1600 and 1850 with different social and economic profiles , has shown the complexity of the factors at work . |
| 5 | Does he agree that it is a sign of considerable leadership that , right in the teeth of the complexity of the negotiations at Maastricht , the Prime Minister should have recognised that the awesome events on the other side of Europe may have an even larger say in the history of Europe ? |
| 6 | Secondly , an emphasis on the complexity of the issues at hand prohibits the portrayal of the Black community as either problem or victim , a recurrent feature of much race relations discourse and popular debate , and a recurrent feature also of much discussion of inner city communities generally . |
| 7 | He should be the link between the professionals at head office and the local knowledge of the on-the-spot workers . |
| 8 | The existence of the singularities at these points implies that the lines and in regions II and III act as ‘ fold singularities ’ like those described in Section 8.2 . |
| 9 | Also , the technique of the mosaicist(s) at Winterton is less sophisticated than that of the Horkstow craftsmen . |
| 10 | Mickie told of some problems in helicopters , such as the pull on the blades at the hub of a Bristol-built helicopter in flight was equal to the draw bar pull of three main line locomotives . |
| 11 | After a spell in the line men felt as if they belonged to some exclusive monastic order whose grim rites were simply beyond the comprehension of the laymen at the rear . |
| 12 | THE BODY of a man was recovered by a Royal Air Force helicopter yesterday from the foot of the cliffs at Dunnottar Castle , near Stonehaven . |
| 13 | In order to obtain data on the difficulty of the questions at different levels it was necessary for the sample of pupils taking them to be drawn from the complete range of target pupils in the schools . |
| 14 | The general regulation of the Poor Law was the responsibility of the justices at quarter sessions , but under an act of 1691 individual justices sitting out of sessions could overrule the overseers on appeal and order relief to be given . |
| 15 | It was during this period that Caledor oversaw the building of the fortresses at Griffon Gate , Phoenix Gate , Eagle Gate , Dragon Gate and Unicorn Gate . |
| 16 | The latter is true of the winged-corridor house at Great Chesterford and the building inside the defences at Thorpe , suggesting that , on occasion , official action could override other concerns in matters of location . |
| 17 | The drawings will be made in a modern and approved style , and when finished , will be submitted to the inspection of the subscribers at large . |
| 18 | We can see this clearly in the story of the men at Ephesus ( Acts 19 ) who had not heard of the gift of Pentecost even though they were living many years after that event . |
| 19 | Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation continued for up to 30 Ma after the emplacement of the intrusions at about 400 Ma . |
| 20 | This was the issue of the steadily rising costs for what is called the ‘ back end ’ of the uranium fuel cycle — the reprocessing of spent fuel , the handling of wastes at the Sellafield works and the dismantling of the reactors at the end of their lives . |
| 21 | The moves were linked by observers to sensitivity on the part of the authorities at the approach of the anniversary of the anti-government riots of July 1990 [ see p. 37603 ] . |
| 22 | A sluice gate was installed up the hill where the water that would create our power was diverted from the Meloch into the millpond , and another at the other end of the pond above the terraces at the back of Melin Cottage . |
| 23 | The state of the nation was inevitably one of the major themes of the talk on the hills at that period ; but so also was the change that was taking place rapidly in the collieries of the steam-coal areas where work was being ‘ rationalized ’ , a much-used euphemism for the cutting of labour costs . |
| 24 | Other authors , e.g. Challinor ( 1949 ) , have expressed quite opposite views , maintaining that the wavecut bench is cut at such a level as not to impede the action of the waves at the foot of the cliff , so that long continued marine planation may occur . |
| 25 | Franks devised the ingenious formula that the use of the air bases in an emergency naturally remained " a matter for joint decision in the light of the circumstances at the time " . |
| 26 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 27 | During the First World War , General Boroević 's graničari , serving on the Isonzo front , were responsible for the defeat of the Italians at Caporetto in 1917 . |
| 28 | Of the second category of bishops as regional leaders , the northern prelates afford obvious examples : in 1346 Archbishop Zouche and Bishop Kirkby of Carlisle participated in the defeat of the Scots at Neville 's Cross , while Bishop Hatfield of Durham rode into battle at Crécy ; ten years later he , too , campaigned against the Scots , and in 1372 he offered himself as a mercenary in the pope 's wars in Italy . |
| 29 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 30 | In the afternoon we visit Fort George , an outstanding artillery fortification built soon after the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden to hinder any more armed threats to Hanoverian law and order . |