Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [be] at the " in BNC.

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1 Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave .
2 The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story .
3 And finally there is a statement from a woman called Sarah who was at the time of these events , church and her statement can be read because there is nothing in dispute in it .
4 He spoke briefly , listened briefly , then turned to McKenzie who was at the tiller .
5 University protocol means it 's not possible for a degree to be collected by proxy , but the attention her nomination brings to her cause is welcomed by her husband who was at the ceremony .
6 Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate .
7 It was Carrington who was at the disadvantage and the realisation came to him as yet another pleasant shock .
8 For example , we believe as a group that we can only survive in our chosen business of the chemical industry if we serve the customers who are at the leading edge of development , wherever they may be .
9 But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties .
10 The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey .
11 And them erm when everybody 's been caught by the person who 's at the person sat saying things like hot bananas hot milk and then when they say hot chocolate the you 've got to run back .
12 This is a group of executives who are at the top ; who respect each other ; who are highly committed ; and who agree that developing a viable vision and strategy is long overdue .
13 Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ .
14 of the people who are at the end of a said they did n't get enough .
15 If Shilton is actually approved as a gipsy site , the people who will be going in there are the people who are at the moment living on the laybys and on the green lanes in the surrounding countryside .
16 This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre .
17 During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here .
18 Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit .
19 And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death !
20 It 's like , you know , a lot of people who were at the conference were completely unaware of all this because they were working so hard .
21 Sally Taylor and her sister Mary who was at the birth told the coroner they throught obstetrician Mr Euan Laird was straining …
22 erm Professor Lacey , a colleague who is at the moment erm the research advisor of the Schools Council , has a project based here which is looking at the impact erm of these Schools Councils projects over the years , which ones have made an impact , which have fallen away , why some have succeeded , why others have fallen off .
23 1.6 This allowance is based upon staff who are at the top of the grade at the present time and translates into the following :
24 There were the agronomist nephew and his wife who was already a schoolmarm , two younger brothers , one having finished his philo , the other his service militaire , a niece who was at the Sorbonne and her fiancé reading economics at the university of Rennes .
25 In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun .
26 Mark Titley and Simon Davies , the Swansea wings who are at the Hong Kong Sevens , are replaced by Bleddyn Taylor and Chris Higgs for the derby at Dunvant .
27 I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years .
28 Casualty doctors who 're at the sharp end see the evidence that speeding is deadly .
29 Again Moloney offers such an analysis of the younger DUP activists : ‘ … men like Robinson , Allister and Kane who are at the start of political careers know that the negative politics practised for so long by their leader would deny them the office and power that could be theirs . ’
30 On the contrary , it was the most urbanized workers , those with the highest levels of skill , education and wages who were at the forefront of labour protest .
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