Example sentences of "[prep] those at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 2 | Anyone who heard some of the more extravagant pictures of apprenticeship painted by some of those at the original Edinburgh meeting , must feel slightly uneasy that the Association could turn into a Don Quixote tilting lances at imaginary windmills , pursuing ‘ causes ’ that are not a reality , and being antagonistic for the sake of it . |
| 3 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 4 | Yet he was active in the early stages of the Anglo-Scottish war after 1542 and was amongst those at the English victory at Solway Moss , but he died ( it is not clear where ) 18 October 1544 . |
| 5 | At that time the total number of staff employed amounted to about 3400 including those at the Head Office in London . |
| 6 | Morris had been charged with creating a computer programme ( a " virus " ) in 1988 which entered and blocked Internet , a computer network used by over 6,000 computers including those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) and military establishments . |
| 7 | But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system . |
| 8 | If individuals in the society ( except for those at the very top and the very bottom of the social ladder ) are socially mobile in each direction to some extent , then the " continuum " can be seen as consisting of a collection of individuals whose linguistic competences in intermediate varieties ( or " lects " ) overlap to form an unbroken chain linking the archetypal Creole ( or " basilect " ) with the Standard ( or " acrolect " ) . |
| 9 | The move back to full employment , an integral part of the reform being advocated here , will itself have an indirect effect on wage levels , particularly for those at the bottom end of the income pile , although it can not be stressed enough that the drive towards full employment must be matched by a commitment to improve the productivity of all workers — including those on low pay . |
| 10 | And that 's a view shared by those at the sharp end of publishing , the authors themselves . |