Example sentences of "[pron] [is] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yours is at the end there , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 2 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 3 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 4 | You move closer , and find that someone is at the bottom of a deep pit . |
| 5 | Fido can be trained to give the alert if someone is at the door , if the telephone is ringing or a visitor is coming up the path . |
| 6 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 7 | In the principal street , which is at the back of the locomotives ' building , there are six houses of three shops on the ground floor . |
| 8 | Those points you 'll find again summed up in a hand-out which is at the back on the seats there . |
| 9 | The condition of ‘ between-ness ’ is then one of doubling which is at the origin of ‘ fraternization ’ and transgression . |
| 10 | It is not a role which is subordinate to the Twelve — the hon. Gentleman was mistaken in that — but nor is it a function which will be prejudicial to NATO , which is at the core of our defence arrangements . |
| 11 | This point means for example that the gases from the engine escape from the faulty manifold ( which is at the exit point adjacent to the engine ) or a broken front pipe , a broken expansion chamber or from the silencer provided this occurs before they pass through it . |
| 12 | Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ? |
| 13 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 14 | The only access to the port is through the Gillingham Gate which is at the north end of Bridge Road . |
| 15 | PRIZE : The Midland Study Centre prize for excellence in Construction Project Management has been won by Adrian Wheeler M. He started the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Centre , which is at the University of Central England , in 1990 sponsored by Dudley Health Authority where he was employed as capital works officer . |
| 16 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 17 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 18 | We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first two tasks , though hideously difficult , were at least relatively straightforward ; the third posed the problem which is at the heart of Peter Dennis 's book : whose law was to be restored and what civilian authority should take over ? |
| 21 | Developments in Tanzania in the mid 1970s were , however , to end in the direct contradiction of this injunction , a contradiction which is at the heart of Tanzania 's tendency towards an authoritarian state . |
| 22 | This looking towards God is therefore the life of contemplation , which is at the heart of the truly Christian life . |
| 23 | After all , Mnemosyne is , by Zeus , mother of the muses and goddess of Memory , which is at the heart of pretty well all states of mind . |
| 24 | This may be an exaggerated view of the public 's overall reaction , but it is certainly not of a vocal minority : It is this pursuit of utopia which is at the heart of the reason why anyone concerned with buildings should understand and take into account the impact of planning control . |
| 25 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 26 | This touches all aspects of the curriculum , history , geography , economics as well as religious education , which is at the heart of it all . ’ |
| 27 | Although it may be contended that it is the process of collective bargaining as an ongoing activity which is at the heart of industrial relations , the negotiating process itself has received little attention in international studies ( an exception is Smith and Turkington , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | They serve , like other WACC publications , a process of policy formation , which is at the heart of both Project and Forum activities . |
| 29 | In face of all this , it is difficult to deny Mr Jay 's proposition : that it is the active exploitation by the unions of their monopoly of the supply of labour which is at the heart of the country 's chronic economic malaise . |
| 30 | 274 , the only case of authority on the point which is at the heart of this appeal ( which case in any event is not binding on your Lordships ) , applied the obiter dicta in Lawrence to reach an erroneous conclusion . |