Example sentences of "is 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 | This sort of copy is at the same time description and interpretation , the salient points being brought out by the copyist , who gains greater understanding of a masterpiece by his work . |
| 3 | But one must remember that the divergent reading of the Christian myth by Reformation and Counter-Reformation is at the heart of the religious as opposed to the rough interpretation of the conflict . |
| 4 | The show , presented by Caterer & Hotelkeeper , is at the Wembley Conference Centre , London , on 6 and 7 November . |
| 5 | In very strong winds the critical place for ground handling is at the tail . |
| 6 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 7 | With a rope break , the climb out is at the normal towing speed when the rope breaks , whereas when engine problems occur the tow is usually slow and the climb is far worse than normal . |
| 8 | The address of your local EHO Department is at the end of this book . |
| 9 | He/she will tell you how much this is at the beginning so you know at the start how much you have to pay . |
| 10 | However , it is at the CID social functions which are sprinkled throughout the year ( especially at Christmas and any departmental promotion ) that you can clearly observe the CID style . |
| 11 | The practice is at the back of all Leonard 's writing , poetry and especially his songs , as we shall see . |
| 12 | It is at the root of almost all the player power problems . |
| 13 | Static stretching involves slow , continual movement until the person is at the limit of his stretch . |
| 14 | Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace . |
| 15 | The 6092DWK Drill/Driver is at the top of the Pro-Range of cordless drills . |
| 16 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 17 | Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer . |
| 18 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 19 | They believe the garden centre business is at the same stage of development as DIY was a decade ago . |
| 20 | This unequal balance is at the heart of the Muslim ( and Syrian ) demand for political reform in Lebanon , a demand which General Aoun will only accept , he says , once the Syrians have left the country . |
| 21 | It is at the conferences of Labour , the party that killed the grammar schools , that you see one fruit of that enlightened policy , which is that many of the younger delegates are incoherently illiterate . |
| 22 | Yet political feeling , rather than ideology , is at the heart of all great opera . |
| 23 | Local cells of the new party will be formed by 10 November , but what happens to the rest of the apparat is at the moment anybody 's guess . |
| 24 | The largest of its Computing Surface machines is at the University of Edinburgh . |
| 25 | I rehearse these arguments not in an attempt to settle them but for the purpose of casting doubt upon the thesis that the performance of the economy is at the crux of the Government 's difficulties . |
| 26 | The installation is at the Live Art festival at the Glasgow Third Eye Centre . |
| 27 | ‘ Sets + Things ’ is at the Heinz Gallery , Portman Square , London W1 , Mondays to Fridays 11am to 5pm ; Saturdays 10am to 1pm . |
| 28 | Mr Hart believes there should be a more structured approach to problem-solving as there is at the Halewood plant . |
| 29 | A tendon injury in her left hand makes last year 's winner Marie-Laure de Lorenzi , from France , an absentee this week , while Alison Nicholas , the 1987 winner , who is at the qualifying school in America , is also missing . |
| 30 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |