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

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1 Tony sat quite still for a few moments and then parked his car on the wasteland at the side of the theatre .
2 When Auntie Jean slammed Uncle Ted 's tea on the table at the end of each day — a meat pie and chips , or a nice bit of rump steak and tartar sauce ( he had n't the nerve yet to go vegetarian ) — she sat opposite him with a stiff drink and demanded facts about Eva and Dad .
3 You can choose your typeface , integrate text with graphics , and manipulate graphic images on the screen at the touch of a key .
4 let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ?
5 A small change in pronunciation by the user , or a small error in earlier processing will have a large effect on the description at the lexical level .
6 This has an immediate effect on the workload at the CAB where claimants often go when they can not get satisfaction at the Department of Social Security .
7 I was as helpless and as degraded as the pig on the bench at the top of our garden nearly thirty years ago .
8 If your eyes should wander from the action on the stage at The Theatre in Chipping Norton , they might fall on an unusual dedication on the walls .
9 Hence the magnetic force on the electron at the edge of the beam ( at R = a ) is
10 The guard on the gate at the entrance to the drive should really have checked me .
11 Proteins can bind to sites on the DNA at the beginning of the gene — known as the promoter — and so initiate transcription ; on the other hand , there are proteins that can block transcription by binding near the promoter and so prevent its transcription .
12 The number of microorganisms on the skin at the time it is cut will depend on how recently the skin was washed or , in the case of surgery , how adequately skin preparation was undertaken .
13 There is a great deal of high quality equipment on the market at the moment , but there is probably more which is either inferior or unsuitable for the purpose it is sold for .
14 ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says .
15 She trained as a typist and learned reception duties on the job at the Royal Oak .
16 And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much .
17 In 1952 they started leaving sweet potatoes on the beach at the forest edge , as food for the macaques , which duly came out of the forest and ate them .
18 In June 1970 it was free climbed by ‘ big ’ Ian Nicholson and ‘ wee ’ Ian Fulton , undoubtedly the hardest technical rock climb on the buttress at the time .
19 Even though I can see both applications on the screen at the same time I am having problems copy typing the formulas .
20 Clinton 's place on the bill at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on 6 March will be taken by the new British bantamweight champion , Drew Docherty , who will fight an as yet unnamed American .
21 This will apply whether or not an election to waive the exemption from charging VAT is in place on the property at the date the lease is granted .
22 Such a project must give him some new perspectives on the guy at the centre of it all .
23 From a discreet vantage point on the concourse at the airport outside Lisbon , Frear watched Schellenberg and Berger walk across the apron and board the Junkers .
24 However , while the Architecture-Neutral Format is unlikely to appear on the market this year , Goldstein says that the Foundation plans to hold a conference on the technology at the end of the year , to find out which companies are interested in bringing the stuff to market and how it can be best introduced to an industry audience already blinded by science .
25 Four colours on the palette at the same time will give several million mixes , more than enough for most work .
26 Modern graphics terminals have a screen resolution of 1024 x 1024 or more , and can display eight or more colours on the screen at the same time .
27 Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat .
28 This man understands the need to get the product on the market at the right time .
29 Although it is possible to have several garment pieces on the screen at the same time , only one stitch pattern can be displayed when superimposing .
30 For earlier in the day they saw in-calf heifer averages drop by over £200 and bulling heifers drop by £88 on the year at the spring event .
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