Example sentences of "at [pos pn] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At my request the BBC publicity person chaperoning him is despatched . |
| 2 | You would cheer me up , for you are ten years younger and at my age the years once again begin to tell . ’ |
| 3 | AMERICAN comedian Milton Berle , 84 , claims his doctor says he has the body of a 40-year-old and adds : ‘ Even at my age the sex act is terrific — especially the one in the winter . ’ |
| 4 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 5 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 6 | Behind the young T'ang stood the rest of the Seven , and at their back the generals . |
| 7 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 8 | The criticisms that have been levelled at the Non-Proliferation Treaty have at their base the inequality of the bargain between the major powers who have nuclear weapons and the non-nuclear powers who have accepted the undertaking not to acquire them . |
| 9 | On the far side , the hills rose again , white fortress walls of snow , broken here and there by smudges of low trees , and at their foot the jolting road to Inverary , empty now in the grip of January . |
| 10 | This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group . |
| 11 | Other buildings have taken over at Corry , and at their rear the blond old wall of the original house stretches under the shade of a tree in this hollow full of little rivers . |
| 12 | At its base the seta is attached by a ring of articular membrane . |
| 13 | For that reason planning will have at its core the educational priorities for the coming year(s) . |
| 14 | For him teaching was a ‘ calling ’ — a career which , though academic , had at its core the concept of service to others . |
| 15 | Like all the best work by social anthropologists it has at its core the very detailed study of the network of relationships operating within a single very small-scale community . |
| 16 | The 1852 coffin of the Sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury was designed by E.W. Pugin and made by Hardman of Birmingham — ‘ the edges … engrailed with gilt metal work ; at its foot the Shrewsbury arms were engraved in gilt metal ’ — whilst in October 1887 Philip Webb sketches in his commonplace book the ‘ outside dimensions of coffin & coffins for a six foot body for Lawrence Datchworth ’ , suggesting an outer case seven foot 6 inches long , three foot wide and two foot deep . |
| 17 | At its peak the Association had around 250 members , most of them full members resident in Lewis , but there was a small number of associate members who received reports but did not participate in their formulation . |
| 18 | At its peak the cult of Asclepius was the most successful in history in that part of the world , to fuse religion , magic , nature care , diet , rest , massage and hydrotherapy into the service of healing . |
| 19 | These contributions are too numerous to list , but at its peak the Computer Group had fifteen members , with secondees from IBM ( United Kingdom ) Limited and the University of Waterloo , and contract staff from a variety of companies . |
| 20 | There , a spire of green ice ten miles high rises through the clouds and supports at its peak the realm of Dunmanifestin , the abode of the disc gods . |
| 21 | At its discretion the Tribunal may award assistance towards the travel costs incurred in attending the meeting by anyone invited to give evidence . |
| 22 | At its discretion the Tribunal may abridge or extend time limits specified in this paragraph as it may deem necessary . |
| 23 | At its top the uterus is two inches across , and from each side come the fallopian tubes , themselves about 4½ inches in length , which serve as the channel down which the ovum travels from the ovaries , which are situated at the far end of the fallopian tubes . |
| 24 | At its heart the river flows untroubled by such crass intrusions as the hustle of modern living . |
| 25 | A walking , talking compendium of that great paradox of apartheid which has at its heart the maxim that crime is n't a crime if it supports and strengthens the system . |
| 26 | At its inception the BMC adopted a positive attitude towards it training commitments ; it recognised a duty to foster the safe training of young climbers . |
| 27 | At its zenith the programme was embarking on 8 new projects per year and , despite a slowdown from the breakneck pace of the late 1970s , by 1990 France will have about 70 operating nuclear installations . |
| 28 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 29 | In the May 1990 Bootle by-election the SDP won only 155 votes [ see p. 37468 ] and at its dissolution the party had 6,000 members . |
| 30 | At its conclusion the conference adopted a document on minority rights and protections . |