Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason they are often seen to be weak ; yet it is this very willingness of the subordinates to shift their own goals in order to preserve the harmony of the team that makes it possible for the group at the top of the hierarchy to perform at all . |
| 2 | Sorry about the scene at the restaurant . |
| 3 | I 'm very sorry about the disturbance at the restaurant and that we had to cut the interview short . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , old chap , I 'm sorry about the note at the club . |
| 5 | Paramedics and a medical aid team fought for an hour by the roadside to keep her alive after the accident at the junction of Scotland Road and Stanley Road . |
| 6 | I want some for the erection at the side of the pool there . |
| 7 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 8 | Billie Rudyard , who is co-ordinating the course , explained : ‘ The women will be able to get ‘ hands on ’ experience during the course , by doing some of the work at the new centre . ’ |
| 9 | Some of the attendance at the Galway Pensioners ' Annual Dinner . |
| 10 | Did you have some of the punch at the party . |
| 11 | On her return to Broadway Miss Picon played a string of leads — all in Yiddish — at Kessler 's Theatre , and won such acclaim that while still in her early thirties she was top of the bill at the Palace , America 's leading vaudeville house , and had a New York theatre named after her . |
| 12 | It was their ninth year together , and they had been top of the bill at the Palladium in the West End six years running . |
| 13 | He 's a star here , but wants to be top of the bill at the Westminster palace of varieties . |
| 14 | Education about dangers on the roads is top of the agenda at the new TEARS Traffic Education and Road Safety centre in Malvern . |
| 15 | The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB . |
| 16 | ‘ Seeing that Mother Hampton was dead-drunk under the table at the Jolly Waterman when Rose Bailey went for her , a fine job she would have made of it . ’ |
| 17 | Abbé Sieyès has whole nests of pigeon-holes full of constitutions ready made , ticketed , sorted , and numbered ; suited to every season and every fancy ; some with the top of the pattern at the bottom , and some with the bottom at the top ; some plain , some flowered , some distinguished for their simplicity , others for their complexity ; some with councils of elders , and councils of youngsters ; some without any council at all . |
| 18 | This willing integration is significantly different from the case at the other end of this spectrum , where the individual artist is in effect available for hire to glorify or embellish the particular court or household which has hired him . |
| 19 | This process in itself made me feel better , her calm reassurance so different from the doctor at the clinic , with his formal , polite and economical manner . |
| 20 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 21 | The new locomotive is No. 12 in the fleet at the Moors Valley Railway and in the publicity leaflet it is suggested that it will be named ‘ Pioneer ’ . |
| 22 | There are some in the field at the back . ’ |
| 23 | ’ — just as our neighbours in New Zealand — ’ There was a cheer from some in the crowd at the mention of the sister colony . |
| 24 | The usefulness of an aircraft is dependent upon the pilot at the controls . |
| 25 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 26 | The issue was expected to be high on the agenda at the summit of presidents of the so-called Group of Eight — Peru , Colombia , Mexico , Venezuela , Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay — which started in Ica yesterday . |
| 27 | It is important that the rights of all minorities within all the territories should be high on the agenda at the conference . |
| 28 | HIGH on the agenda at the start of the next council term in the borough of North Down will undoubtedly be the controversial issue of a new library for Bangor . |
| 29 | Lot fifty eight collection of record pads and bits and pieces for which I have a hundred pounds offered , and ten , one twenty , one thirty , any more at one thirty , forty , one fifty , one sixty , one seventy one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty two forty two forty on the left at the back , any more at two forty , two sixty , two eighty two eighty three hundred three twenty three twenty on the left near the back now , at three twenty , are you , it 's your bid , sir , at three twenty pounds , any more at three twenty and I 'll sell at three hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 30 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |