Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an informal meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , China also approved a 15-year extension to a licence for local utility Hongkong Electric which expires at the end of 1993 , and gave the go-ahead for a landfill project . |
| 2 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 3 | Below we include a brief extract from this study which looks at the problems and consequences of conviction for the business , ‘ respectable ’ criminal in comparison to the regular criminal — bearing in mind , of course , that the business criminal is far less likely to be convicted that most other types of criminal . |
| 4 | However , there is a place in social research , and a very important one , for the type of interview which stands at the other extreme to the structured one , namely the non-standardised interview . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that the sound is recorded as a separate linear edge-track which runs at the slow forward speed of the tape , and the speed affects the audio quality to some extent . |
| 6 | The principal of these is the Amotape breccia fan which occurs at the foot of the Amotape range , a part of the Andean system rising abruptly 1 500 m ( 5 000 ft ) high above the desert . |
| 7 | At one remove from decentralization is the Athenian model of action which lies at the least controlled end of the continuum . |
| 8 | At birth a child enters the condition of infancy — a condition which ceases at the age of 18 years , or rather , at the first moment of the day preceding the eighteenth birthday . |
| 9 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 10 | The Dutch League champions said last month they would not renew Robson 's two-year contract which expires at the end of June . |
| 11 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
| 12 | Djilas believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat had produced a bureaucracy in the form of ‘ a privileged caste which lives at the expense of society as a whole ’ . |
| 13 | Kobena Mercer and Isaac Julien are right to emphasize that the complexity which arises at the junction of race and sexuality is something which ‘ some people simply do n't want to talk about ’ . |
| 14 | It 's a very slight change to the recommendation erm Chairman which appears at the end of the report . |
| 15 | Despite the title , the only scene which hints at the metabolic urgency of drug use comes when Leigh drives zonked-out through a lit-up industrial landscape . |
| 16 | Despite the technical sophistication of the shoes , a range which starts at the price of £46.99 may still have trouble finding new converts . |
| 17 | Orpiere , reached by turning west off the N75 Grenoble road about 25km north of Sisteron , is a little village which lies at the foot of a cirque of crags . |
| 18 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 19 | That is the issue which lies at the heart of Mr. Thorpe 's case . |
| 20 | In particular , the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty which lies at the root of British democracy can not be squared with European political union as it is currently proposed . |
| 21 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 22 | It is interesting that it is in the work of a woman , Julian of Norwich , that Mary 's female willingness to be open to receive embodies that attitude which lies at the heart of contemplative experience . |
| 23 | This rim is marked off from the rest of the cranium by a groove or postoccipital sulcus which ends at the posterior tentorial pit on either side and along which are inserted the dorsal prothoracic muscles moving the head . |
| 24 | The context is different , especially for an exporter of manufactures like Britain , but there 's a basic common question which arises at the root of the problems of erm technology choice in Africa , in Asia , Latin America and in a European country like Britain . |
| 25 | The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich . |
| 26 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 27 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 28 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 29 | One girl who works at the Space Center seems almost beside herself — she was planning to come to tonight 's gig , but after a late night last week her parents ( strict Christians ) grounded her and took away her ticket . |
| 30 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |