Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current deteriorating standards of living and acute social problems that owe so much of their origin to the decline in the economy suggest that the inheritance at the time of Independence of a highly developed mining sector was a very mixed blessing : the lack of balance it occasioned in the economic base has resulted in serious economic and social disequilibrium with the locus of control resting as much with decisions made in the London Metal Market as with policies established in Lusaka . |
| 2 | Either way , someone could recognise that the man at the receiving end of her hysteria was Vitor d'Arcos , and inform the media . |
| 3 | They say that the handwriting at the top bears no resemblance to that of any Press office staff . |
| 4 | They compared the readings taken remotely with those at the cell and found that the rate at the cell was three times that of the background . |
| 5 | You will know which pipe is frozen because the tap at the end of it will no longer be working . |
| 6 | He hesitated , uncertain , then realized that the archway at the end led on to the balcony above the great hall . |
| 7 | She frowned to see that the seat at the other side was occupied by his sister-in-law , Sarah Butler . |
| 8 | Agricultural Minister , John MacGregor , says that the work at the laboratory in Worcestershire can be done more efficiently elsewhere . |
| 9 | The game had stood at thirty-love when he tossed the ball up to serve and the man at the back of the opposite court had watched him hop and stumble , then fall , the racquet leaving his hand on the upswing and curving away . |
| 10 | It so happened that the dresser at the Shield gave notice , and Dinah decided that she herseelf could teach Lilian to make herself useful in that and other ways . |
| 11 | Both camps accept that the fight at the Thomas and Mack Centre , which sounds like a tune-up garage , will answer the ultimate questions about their men 's boxing machinery . |
| 12 | ‘ Would n't mind if the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train … ’ |
| 13 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 14 | That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . |
| 15 | It was ten past seven and the saloon bar of the Duke of Clarence pub was already smoke-filled , the noise level rising and the crowd at the bar three feet deep . |
| 16 | It is known that the DNA at the dyad has a minor groove at the exposed surface . |
| 17 | Note that the heading at the top of this column ( ie. the cache type ) will vary depending on the cache partition being accessed . |
| 18 | Ukrainian and Western researchers now believe that the fire at the plant was not extinguished by material dropped from helicopters within the first 10 days after the accident , as originally claimed , but simply burned itself out . |
| 19 | I can totally agree with the woman here just now , what she 's saying but the woman at the back of me just now , she 'd said about lesbianism , this is a different thing entirely . |
| 20 | He spent a week in Majorca watching his son at Santa Ponsa and saw that the pause at the top of his backswing had gone . |
| 21 | If we apply RU to a jumbled cube , the notation FR → UF means that the piece at the position FR is carried to the position UF . |
| 22 | It 's estimated that the riot at the low security jail caused damage costing twenty million pounds . |
| 23 | The median has a precise mathematical definition which is absolutely right , and my hon. Friend is correct in saying that the median is bound to alter if the number at the bottom of the scale is changed . |
| 24 | The waiter left and the man at the table felt satisfied that he had negotiated this basic exchange successfully . |
| 25 | Given that the Secretary of State 's own appointed governor , the former chief inspector , Eric Bolton , said that the situation at the school is ’ unsatisfactory ’ and that the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said that pupils and staff at Stratford school are ’ disturbed ’ , does the Minister recognise that the Secretary of State 's statement last week that Stratford school was ’ operating satisfactorily ’ had no basis in fact and could come only from a Secretary of State who sought to evade , rather than take , the responsibility which was plainly his ? |
| 26 | Purists might also check that the lock-stitch at the skinny end is hand-drawn for elasticity and strength and that the keeper-bar , which crosses the tie at its widest point , has also been stitched by hand . |
| 27 | BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them . |
| 28 | It is relevant to note that the river at the point of crossing was a yard deep and three yards wide . |