Example sentences of "[verb] at the bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | The piece to cover the Fluval 3 need only be drilled at the bottom , ten quarter inch holes being sufficient , but ten at the top and bottom of the piece for the Fluval 2 . |
| 2 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 3 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 4 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 5 | using a level , the drip channel is installed at the bottom of the run by simply nailing it to the battens |
| 6 | This is because it can cope with printing personal details such as customer name , branch sort code and address — along with the magnetically coded cheque/slip number , bank code and account number , included at the bottom of the cheque — a process that has to be carried out in two separate stages using current techniques . |
| 7 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 8 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 9 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Doyle indicated the tall building , just visible behind the scattered beech and ash trees that clustered at the bottom of every garden , and along the small roadways . |
| 11 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 12 | She stopped at the bottom of the steps and listened . |
| 13 | was she sat at the bottom you know |
| 14 | At Holme-on-Spalding-Moor in East Yorkshire , the church is sited at the top of a prominent hill and the village nestles at the bottom . |
| 15 | It is the underlying implication of the existence of a providing ‘ god ’ which lies at the bottom of a great deal of the world 's misery . |
| 16 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 17 | If you look through all the short stories you know , I think you 'll find that the element of change lies at the bottom of each , like an insistent ground bass . |
| 18 | This movement exposes the active site ( pink ) , consisting of a catalytic triad like that of the serine proteinases , which lies at the bottom of a hydrophobic canyon in the catalytic amino-terminal domain of the protein . |
| 19 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 20 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 21 | The cinnabar-covered skeleton ( simulating blood ) found at the bottom of a forty foot man-made shaft was wearing a gold death mask with eyes made of emeralds and large silver ear decorations , still covered by hundreds of thousands of turquoise , crystal , lapis lazuli and seashell beads . |
| 22 | Petalling starts at the bottom and works up , overlapping so it looks like a tiled roof because theoretically that sheds the rain . |
| 23 | Recruitment in food service starts at the bottom with entry as a snack steward who will work in the self-service areas and assist in the smooth running of the lido deck service . |
| 24 | This will help to avoid clouds of falling soot from blowing into the room through the air vent which you must install at the bottom of the closed flue . |
| 25 | Certainly it seems likely that women will find themselves ever more firmly trapped at the bottom of the office hierarchy as a result of the introduction of information technology . |
| 26 | Plastic refuse sacks are particularly useful for this purpose secured at the bottom with waterproof pvc tape . |
| 27 | I jumped and slid down the slope of the dune into its shadow , then turned at the bottom to look back up at those small heads and bodies as they watched over the northern approaches to the island . |
| 28 | So as it says at the bottom of page eight there 's a golden rule for presenting is use three themes . |
| 29 | When the rays of the sun strike a shallow pool of still water ( 1 ) with a dark bottom the radiation is absorbed at the bottom ( 2 ) and heats up the lower levels of water . |
| 30 | The teeth are still in position relative to one another , but the mandibular bone has almost all been digested ( one fragment remains , detached at the bottom of the teeth ) and the teeth themselves are heavily digested . |