Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb -s] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The issue is whether a civil action for defamation lies at the suit of a corporate public authority .
2 Unfortunately no single governing body for hypnosis exists at the time of writing .
3 If you look through all the short stories you know , I think you 'll find that the element of change lies at the bottom of each , like an insistent ground bass .
4 The assimilation of moderate levels of complexity into higher levels of orderliness lies at the heart of Smith 's aesthetic , in which excitement is generated by complexity whilst delight results from the apprehension of an overriding sense of order .
5 We may even suggest that the theory of contracts presents an ideal terrain for an examination of these fundamental issues of political philosophy , for the law of contract lies at the intersection of the market and the state , using the coercive power of the latter to reinforce the discipline of the former .
6 In a similar manner , various other studies have indicated that a wide and diverse range of crime occurs at the workplace .
7 Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers .
8 Indeed , the symbolic consumption of wine lies at the heart of Christianity , in the form of Communion and Mass .
9 When a bright ring of solder appears at the end of the fitting , the joint is made .
10 The promotion of legislation comes at the top of the catalogue of his responsibilities listed in Table 3 .
11 ( 9 ) In Stage 2 , schools are assisted in putting together their orders by the organisation of book displays at the county library and visits to library suppliers ' showrooms in London .
12 The second non-sexual mode of transmission occurs at the time of childbirth .
13 Accordingly , his cause of action for an infringement before the date of sealing accrues at the date of the infringement but can not be enforced until the procedural requirement of sealing is met .
14 Differentiating ( 8–60 ) , setting , ( 8–61 ) A dollar of debt displaces at the margin a dollar of private capital ( the case taken by Modigliani ) if and only if f'= n .
15 To say more precisely whether these cuts produced something like the optimal solution to the level of investment ( though with the inconvenience of power cuts at the peak ) , is problematic in an economy which ( even in the 1950s ) was subject to considerable disequilibrium in prices and inherited production patterns .
16 about pit stops at the Coach and Horses .
17 First , that reading the words of the Act of 1987 in their natural sense the Director 's power to require an answer from a person under investigation ceases at the moment of charge .
18 The Grampian Group , in which primary facies changes are concomitant with abrupt changes of thickness , is overstepped by pelites with quartzite wedges at the base of the Appin Group .
19 The open palm is also an effective weapon , because the fingers are free to convert into finger jabs at the throat or eye gouges .
20 Moss Bros : Card clocks up discount points at the till
21 Adjustment may well be necessary , however , to exclude the element of partners ' salaries from work in progress totals at the end of the financial year .
22 In 1981 IBM began using up to 8 tonnes of cyanide a week to extract silver ore from waste tips at the mine , having invested $1.4 million in extraction equipment .
23 He has appeared in charity shows at the club for more than 20 years and we well-known throughout the area for his untiring efforts for worthy causes .
24 At the dealers : Richard Green at 39 Dover Street , W1 has the best exhibition of English Marine Paintings for years ; the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour shows at the Mall Galleries ; Anthony d'Offay switches on neon art by Bruce Naumann .
25 It is sensible for the term to be stated to be from and including a specific date to avoid the uncertainty caused by the general law that a term which is to commence " from " a certain date in fact commences at the beginning of the following day , with the term lasting during the whole anniversary of the day from which it is granted , unless there is some contra-indication in the lease .
26 The basic principle of the lift is that of two balancing weights positioned on an inclined plane , and suspended by a connecting rope passing over pulley wheels at the top of the plane ( figures 3 and 4 ) .
27 According to press reports at the time , Lori McElroy and her boyfriend claimed Nicholas and his friends had been a problem throughout the holiday .
28 Chancellor Norman Lamont has set a monitoring range of 0–4pc for M0 , which measures notes and coins in circulation plus bank balances at the Bank of England .
29 Ed Lucente would be an appropriate sidekick in a Stern administration — he won the nickname Neutron Eddie at IBM Corp , because his moving to a new department was regularly followed by job cuts at the unit .
30 The central insight , as Jonathan Mann ( Harvard ) pointed out , and as is emphasised in the report of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition , is that discrimination by society lies at the root of individual and community vulnerability to AIDS .
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