Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the [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 | The young man had ridden hard , and was stained and tired , and not a little frightened at the magnitude of the disaster he reported . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gorbad is badly wounded at the Battle of Grunberg , but the battle is won and the Empire army flees back to Altdorf . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 7 | At girls ' puberty rituals the novice , folded in a blanket , is gently placed at the roots of a slender mudyi sapling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In some cases gastric metaplasia was only seen at the tips of ( stunted ) villi ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | Cost accounts are only prepared at the discretion of the directors of the company and are not a legal requirement . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The full horror of Crocker 's position was only revealed at the end of 1984 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 16 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 17 | The new appointments , all made at the end of 1861 or the beginning of 1862 , bespoke a regime that was about to make further changes . |
| 18 | There were several reasons for this : the delicate state of recovery within the economy meant that it would be foolish to contemplate a significant defence burden falling on Japanese shoulders ; the question of Japan 's future foreign policy was extremely contentious within the country and there was vocal hostility to any suggestion of reviving an active or adventurous approach to foreign matters ; furthermore Yoshida had personally suffered at the hands of the military and had no wish to see the old guard of the Japanese armed forces making a come-back . |
| 19 | Now , with the exception of Lorenzi , who has a young daughter to think about , they can all play full-time in the States — or even , were it to materialise , on the women 's world tour McCormack has long had at the back of his mind . |
| 20 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 21 | Grazing species leave characteristic winding trails , and these have been tentatively identified as fossils , but with the usual caution that the trail makers themselves are never apparently preserved at the end of their tracks . |
| 22 | A few of the more level headed ones , obviously relieved at the prospect of imminent rescue from the evil sect which had ensnared them , even joined in and lent a hand . |
| 23 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 24 | In order to give effect to the original intention of the Directive , the House of Lords held that the Regulations should be construed purposively and read as if after the words " immediately before the transfer " the following words were added " or would have been so employed at the time of the transfer if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in reg 8(1) " , ( ie for a reason in connection with the transfer ) . |
| 25 | When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her . |
| 26 | The failure to produce one is naturally laid at the door of the government which has progressively weakened regional strategic planning over the past ten years , but it is also undeniable that any large scale infrastructure programme would produce massive public opposition . |
| 27 | Confusion — the sundering of raskol — was thus itself confounded ; and the crisis or breaking point of his illness followed by his ‘ regeneration ’ ( voskresenie ) and his ‘ passing from one world to another ’ and his ‘ acquaintance with a new and hitherto unknown reality ’ are merely affirmed at the end of the Epilogue . |
| 28 | I was suddenly infuriated at the thought of what we had believed about the Germans in England . |
| 29 | From the cast only Carole Ann Ford intimated a wish to leave , somewhat worried at the prospect of being typecast as a ‘ screaming teenager ’ . |
| 30 | A physicist and former Director of the Atomic Energy Authority 's Harwell laboratories , Marshall had become personally identified at the vanguard of the British nuclear power programme ; in one Monty Pythonesque anti-nuclear cartoon , his balding head replaced the reactor dome of a PWR . |