Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [art] bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language of ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ subjects — which can extend into the discipline itself , as in the derogatory description of astro-physics — reveals a perception of academic study in which subjects are tiered , with ‘ hard ’ sciences at the top and ‘ soft ’ arts at the bottom . |
| 2 | They were the cooks , washers-up , barbers , lice-pickers , deck-swabbers and general gofers at the bottom of a subtle pecking order that slowly revealed itself . |
| 3 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 4 | This survival course led by three guides , has you clambering over rocks and streams filled with fish and crabs at the bottom of a huge canyon surrounded by rich green forest . |
| 5 | Rumour had it that if you went to a Norman Mailer party , you 'd see people smoking marijuana , covertly passing around a joint behind the bushes at the bottom of the garden . |
| 6 | It was only when he asked her to come with him to the bushes at the bottom of the garden — something which she did willingly — and tried to force her to have sex with him that Myra became frightened and ran away . |
| 7 | Cars at the bottom have to use roads awash with water to cross the appropriately named Hilperton Marsh . |
| 8 | As they put the presents at the bottom of the sleeping child 's bed she said anxiously : ‘ Are you sure you think the umbrella 's a good idea ? |
| 9 | While Cinzia searched the glove compartment for the remote control unit , Zen noted the heavy-duty fencing with angled strands of barbed wire at the top and electronic sensors at the bottom , and the video camera mounted on a pole just inside the gates , all of it brand-new . |
| 10 | There seemed to be some other words at the bottom of the landscape , but O could not make these out . |
| 11 | And there are twenty four words at the bottom of the page and we have Good Friday , we have Easter Day and we have Ascension Day . |
| 12 | Most students , in fact , not only made a distinction between arts and science , but also believed in a hierarchy of different disciplines , with ‘ fundamental ’ , ‘ useful ’ subjects like physics at the top and ‘ wishy-washy ’ humanities subjects at the bottom . |
| 13 | Okay so I was on savings at the bottom of erm the sheets . |
| 14 | The whole border motif will fit on a mylar sheet ( actually 58 stitches to one repeat ) if you do n't mind the long floats at the bottom . |
| 15 | The historical reality during the sixteenth and much of the seventeenth centuries was usually some kind of amalgam , such as that expressed by Martin Luther in his evaluation of alchemy : As the earthly alchemist purified through fire , leaving the dregs at the bottom of the furnace , so , at the Day of Judgment , the divine alchemist would separate all things through fire , the righteous from the ungodly . |
| 16 | On a low table by the chair were the remnants of a spartan breakfast — a few crumbs of toast , a tub of margarine , and a mug with coffee dregs at the bottom ; also a book , open but face down : Le Carré 's The Honourable Schoolboy . |
| 17 | Stables at the bottom of our garden ? |
| 18 | I hissed a damn-you at Piers at the bottom and pushed them out . |
| 19 | League tables inevitably put these schools at the bottom . |
| 20 | It should be noted that the existence of a published league table has not led to an automatic and immediate improvement in schools at the bottom of the table . |
| 21 | Hey we 're going out and be , we we 're going to have them build us one , I mean er my intention is I might get Stuart or somebody to put the bricks at the bottom . |
| 22 | The shire counties , especially those in Wales , top the spending charts , with London and the metropolitan districts at the bottom . |
| 23 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 24 | And a what I would say is that if you pack carefully , and I advise people as to how to pack crockery You do n't put plates th s big plates on the bottom and then build up , because that puts a tremendous weight on the middle of the big plates at the bottom . |
| 25 | Suddenly my eye leaps to four words in brackets at the bottom of the column : ‘ ( See also Strategy Unit ) ’ . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ She had a cabinet with two cupboards at the bottom . |
| 27 | It was divided into its own hierarchies , the commercial sector of small-scale business men and women at the top , the beggars at the bottom . |
| 28 | ‘ The valises were placed by the submersible in large baskets at the bottom of the ocean , ’ Mr Geller said . |
| 29 | if they 're two far apart , you get big gaps at the bottom |
| 30 | Tables listing 60 endowment companies published in the periodical Planned Savings show that the top performers for endowment policies paying out at the end of 1990 could do anything up to twice as well as companies at the bottom of the table . |