Example sentences of "at [pron] [noun sg] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At my Mum-in-law 's the sink was in the corner , not under the window where it is now … |
| 2 | At their head is the permanent secretary , supported by three deputy secretaries ( with responsibility , respectively , for schools , further and higher education , and teachers ) plus a legal adviser ( heading the legal branch ) and the senior chief inspector ( head of Her Majesty 's Inspectors , or HMIs , who are attached to the DES but independent of it ) . |
| 3 | At their heart is the Cheddar Gorge and the famous show caves penetrating deep into the hills . |
| 4 | At which time was the shadow of the bottle shortest ? |
| 5 | He had made some fragmentary notes on some of the competition entries , and had commented on the recent Parliamentary debate at the meeting of the Architectural Photographic Association in February 1859 , at which Street was the main speaker . |
| 6 | Process redesign may have generated more hype than light , but at its core is the imaginative use of today 's computing power in ways that can be peculiarly useful to banks . |
| 7 | First , at its core is the idea that critical thinking is a particular kind of intellectual activity in its own right . |
| 8 | At its head were the sons of the Count of Angoulême , their half-brother Viscount Aimar of Limoges , Viscount Raymond II of Turenne , whose sister had married Count William of Angoulême , and the lords of Chabanais and Mastac . |
| 9 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
| 10 | One can say , as the Audit Commission did in 1986 , that at its heart is the idea of a " structured care process " The Audit Commission model is that care is organised around 3 elements : the assessment of need prescribing care reviewing and monitoring care outcomes . |
| 11 | At its heart was the pressure of blacks and of their liberal white supporters for equal opportunities in education . |
| 12 | At its heart were the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration . |
| 13 | The first , concerned with the objectives of professional development , has at one pole the intention to improve existing practices , whilst at its other is the desire to make radical changes to classroom practice . |
| 14 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 15 | At its side is the Chapel of St John Nepomuk ( 1718–22 ) by Filip Spannbrücker . |
| 16 | At its apex was the Governor . |
| 17 | At its basis is the stale-mate of the party political system which has perverted its raison d'ëtre into mere self-perpetuation the same stale-mate which led to Italy still being without a government three months after the April elections . |
| 18 | The only mourners at her funeral are the women from the refuge . |
| 19 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 21 | Today the only boxer accepted by experts ( and fans ) as the ‘ real ’ world champion at his weight is the WBC junior welterweight titleholder , Julio Cesar Chavez of Mexico . |
| 22 | Johnstone charmed his way through football , showing the kind of tempestuous skill that either wins games or starts fights , and at his height was the most sought after winger in the world . |
| 23 | At what date is the increase greatest ? |
| 24 | This being established , the question becomes : at what stage is the information said to be known by the groups in question ? |
| 25 | At what age is the pension normally paid ? |
| 26 | Do you believe that the most important resource at your disposal is the staff ? |