Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 32 | Upper House stands at the southern end of a deep yard , flanked to the east by the barn and to the north by a Norman church . |
| 33 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 34 | Mr Campbell commented ‘ The most important recent development in ordinary shares was the reverse yield gap which at present stands at the alarming value of 4 ¼%.; |
| 35 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 36 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 37 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 38 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 39 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 40 | She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery : losing Lucy . |
| 41 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 42 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 43 | The source of DNA was plasmid pFRC64 ( 14 ) , which contains a 198 bp long AccI-HindIII DNA fragment from phage φ29 genome , containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters , cloned at the SmaI site of pUC19Ο , so that transcription from P A2b promoter faces the unique EcoRI site from the pUC polylinker sequence . |
| 44 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 45 | The Coroner was in his early forties , a gaunt , greying man , with thick spectacles perched at the very end of his nose . |
| 46 | That did not prevent Somerset Maugham , in the sanctuary of a villa in the south of France , from shuddering at the private fantasy of a shaggy-haired mob seizing sudden sway in literary London — an effect , as he imagined , of the welfare state ; and he was certain that their social origins were unprecedentedly humble . |
| 47 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 48 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 49 | This chapter looks at the existing pattern of UK taxation and the changes that have taken place in recent years . |
| 50 | Dick Hebdige looks at the modern breed of ‘ quality ’ paper . |
| 51 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 52 | Electric Ecology looks at the surprising variety of plants and animals that have co colonized this land and that the efforts that are made to monitor and foster this wild life . |
| 53 | This chapter looks at the limited right of challenge to the validity of an expert 's decision , and explains : ( 1 ) that it is the parties to a contract who get involved in various kinds of court proceedings where the validity of the decision is challenged , and not the expert ( 13.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the grounds for challenge ( 13.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the earlier history of the law of mistake in expert determination ( 13.4 ) ; ( 4 ) more recent developments ( 13.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the current position ( 13.6 ) ; ( 6 ) speaking and non-speaking decisions ( 13.7 ) ; ( 7 ) points of law ( 13.8 ) ; ( 8 ) construction of documents ( 13.9 ) ; ( 9 ) various other aspects of mistake ( 13.10 – 13.13 ) ; and ( 10 ) the future of the doctrine ( 13.14 ) . |
| 54 | If one looks at the early development of vertebrae it becomes clearer just how segmental much of our own early development is . |
| 55 | In this area of interest one normally looks at the classic work of Bartlett ( 1932 ) as providing the first base for the complex analysis of how people 's thought and language come together in their recall of complex materials . |
| 56 | JOHN HATFIELD examines the opportunities for Scottish companies in France and looks at the booming environment of a French region that is peculiarly similar to Scotland |
| 57 | Validation looks at the general ability of the centre to support a National Certificate programme as well as the ability to deliver each module requested . |
| 58 | Even if one looks at the political structure of England one can see the division , and there is no doubt that political dominance was heavily weighted in favour of the South and the Midlands . |
| 59 | Chapter 9 looks at the familiar problem of personality clashes . |
| 60 | It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed . |