Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A neatly printed card , discreetly placed at the hem of the embroidery , told that the contents of the case had been donated by Jurgen Danziger , in 1933 . |
| 2 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 3 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 4 | The young man had ridden hard , and was stained and tired , and not a little frightened at the magnitude of the disaster he reported . |
| 5 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 6 | At meetings of Bank Assistants throughout the country , in the past weeks , I have not met anyone who was other than bitterly disillusioned at the outcome of our visit to the Labour Court . |
| 7 | Gorbad is badly wounded at the Battle of Grunberg , but the battle is won and the Empire army flees back to Altdorf . |
| 8 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 10 | And , as the Chancellor patiently explained at the beginning of his speech , the Budget deals with income , not expenditure , which is precisely why he wants to change it . |
| 11 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 12 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 13 | At girls ' puberty rituals the novice , folded in a blanket , is gently placed at the roots of a slender mudyi sapling . |
| 14 | However , because ‘ newly-born ’ micelles can only arise at the expense of the preexisting ones ( there is a finite amount of water in the system that must be shared between all the micelles ) , the average radius of the micelles decreases . |
| 15 | Their grants would be reinstated from that date and they will obviously graduate at the end of the appropriate term . |
| 16 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 17 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 18 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 19 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 20 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 21 | Anyone who doubts this need only glance at a profile of Peter Phillips , director of The Tallis Scholars , published in The New Yorker : |
| 22 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |
| 23 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 24 | In some cases gastric metaplasia was only seen at the tips of ( stunted ) villi ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 25 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 26 | Cost accounts are only prepared at the discretion of the directors of the company and are not a legal requirement . |
| 27 | The company is not required by law or accountants and auditors to provide management accounts and they are only prepared at the discretion of the company . |
| 28 | The full horror of Crocker 's position was only revealed at the end of 1984 . |
| 29 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 30 | But did it necessarily grow at the expense of royal power ? |