Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces .
2 The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs .
3 Forces conspire to push you onto the arête itself at the point where the overlap is reached , although good protection can be arranged to ease the passage of a couple of moves up the gently overhanging right wall of the buttress .
4 At 32 Rue St Honoré , they met with Raymond Eddi , a distinguished Lebanese parliamentarian in exile , and Marcel Boutros , Aoun 's personal envoy , who invited Coleman to meet the general himself at the presidential palace in Baabda .
5 Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people .
6 Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over .
7 You see , all the things which at the moment seem strange to you about it become every day normality after a bit , so that it 's untrue to give you an answer in terms of the lack of space or the lack of change or the lack of food or any of the other things which make this so different from ordinary life . ’
8 Traditionally pioneers in agriculture , these were the families which at the beginning of the nineteenth century concluded that the making of good cheese need not be confined to the high alpine dairies as was then generally accepted , but could be practised in the rich pasturelands of the Mittelland .
9 The festival 's aim is to promote interesting activities in the countryside which at the same time encourage environmental awareness and boost the local economy .
10 Under the registration of inspectors advocated by the Bill , local government inspection will be universally up to the standard which at the moment only the very best attain .
11 That God is personal by being tri-personal , they would say , means that in God the activity which at the human level must be divided between separate individual selves can be contained at the divine level within one being .
12 In the year 1184 , an event took place at the Palace which at the time must have sent a ripple through the whole country for Richard , Archbishop of Canterbury , the man who had succeeded Thomas Becket , died here at Halling .
13 Apart from the fact they at the end .
14 When the piece of meat dropped from the fork everyone at the table exploded into laughter except the Colonel , who said , ‘ Nessy ! behave yourself . ’
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