Example sentences of "at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked carefully at the sticks of uneven length and thickness that Philip had fixed together , too loosely . |
| 2 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 3 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 4 | ‘ I will remind you only that , added to all this , my employer is not likely to live very long , and I am therefore already at the necessity of seeking another post . |
| 5 | I just wonder at the necessity of it in an area that already has two golf-courses to its credit . |
| 6 | 4–3 The new tenant at the farms of Brahunisary and Tyndrum , Roderick Brown , was the recipient of a complimentary day 's ploughing by 18 teams . |
| 7 | He frowned and stared down at the grain of the table . |
| 8 | IF YOU want to know the pecking order of the various departments in Britain 's universities , try looking at the shareout of the 312 new academic posts announced by the Department of Education and Science last week . |
| 9 | Education Catering Services are working on two fronts : the production of the quality assurance manual , under the direction of Joanna Carroll , for the central production unit in Ealing ; and the operations manual for school meals which will be installed initially at the mobilisation of the Sunderland school meals contract . |
| 10 | He tugged at the flask of whisky inside his tunic and eventually worked it out . |
| 11 | It is a moving story that leaves one marvelling not only at the bravery of Middleton himself but that fate had brought so many courageous men together in the one crew . |
| 12 | Timid observers will marvel at the bravery of the men who dare descend into these black pits for enjoyment and adventure : their reward is a visit to a fantastic nether world the rest of us will never see . |
| 13 | She gasped at the vividness of her imagination . |
| 14 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 15 | Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out . |
| 16 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 17 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 18 | The introduction of the microcomputer into the environment allows us to look much more closely at the type of information required on personnel and how to use it to best advantage . |
| 19 | . Now what I 'm now going to do , I 'm going to tell you what these initials are , so if you , on the back of the piece of the paper , you make some notes , because some of these obviously are going to be what you , your personality is , but you also need to note , if you look at the type of things that you can expect from different people in the teams , or the strengths and weaknesses that some people may have in your team . |
| 20 | No but you see , you 've got to look at the type of , we look at the type of illnesses that people suffer from in a minute , and sort of , you know , a day here , a week there , somebody has a month somewhere else . |
| 21 | No but you see , you 've got to look at the type of , we look at the type of illnesses that people suffer from in a minute , and sort of , you know , a day here , a week there , somebody has a month somewhere else . |
| 22 | Using the scrambled security telephone , he dialled the program controller at the Voice of America broadcasting headquarters . |
| 23 | Bruce Doblin , a doctor at the University of California , said he was stunned by his bill from the Academy Hotel in Gower Street , London . |
| 24 | The Festival 's tribute to the work , teaching and writing of Raymond Williams will this year feature Alan Fountain who has been invited by the Festival and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham to give a special talk in his memory . |
| 25 | Research at the University of New Hampshire in the United States shows that the single most effective method of controlling apple scab is to collect and burn all fallen leaves from infected trees in autumn . |
| 26 | A resource pack has been produced by the School for Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol . |
| 27 | The Centre for Health Economics at the University of York has published a discussion paper on District Health Authority assessment of local populations ' need for health services , and of priority setting . |
| 28 | A paper recently published by Jacek Baranowski et al working at the University of California , Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( Phys Rev Lett , Vol 66 no 23 ) describes a new form of gallium arsenide that will superconduct at a temperature of 10K . |
| 29 | American scientist working for the Astrophysics Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder have created the lowest temperature ever recorded — one millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 30 | How that life was saved live can now know , thanks to Catherine Seelye who has put the story together , mostly out of Olson 's posthumous papers at the University of Connecticut . |