Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various parts of its body strained towards each other and collected into a hairy spherical fragment balanced on three pipe-cleaner legs at the head of the table . |
| 2 | Länder parliaments were elected with German Minister-Presidents at the head of the provincial administrations . |
| 3 | The conclusion of a peace treaty between Iraq and Iran did not guarantee the tranquillity of the countries at the head of the Gulf . |
| 4 | But as the Air New Zealand 747–400 that brought me back home took off from Auckland International what came into my mind were the lines at the head of this article . |
| 5 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 6 | We wanted more businessmen at the head of affairs . |
| 7 | The data on applications at the head of this section can be checked against the information in Figure 2.4 for the Polytechnic as a whole . |
| 8 | He gave four reasons for deciding in favour of a binary system : the demand for vocational , professional and industrial based courses required a separate sector with a separate tradition and outlook ; a ladder system with the universities at the head would inevitably depress and degrade morale and standards in the non-university sector ; there was a need for a substantial part of the higher education system to be under social control and directly responsible to social needs ; and , lastly , no other country in the western world downgraded its non-university professional and technical sector . |
| 9 | The central elements of the code of practice include the division of responsibilities at the head of the company ; sufficient non-executive directors to carry significant weight in the board 's decisions ; a schedule of key matters reserved for full board decision ; full disclosure of directors ' total emoluments , with separate figures for salary and performance-related pay ; audit committees composed solely of non-executives to scrutinise figures and appoint auditors ; the board should report on the effectiveness of the company 's system of internal controls ; the directors should report that the business is a going concern , and auditors report on this statement . |
| 10 | But in the absence of an adversary , the president has no compass that can guide his actions at the head of that state , except the new requirement to shrink it . |
| 11 | There are no photoreceptors at the head of the optic nerve , and hence this area forms the blind spot . |
| 12 | The hard copy system will also put the classifications at the head and tail of each page . |
| 13 | The causes of the tides need hardly concern us here , except to state that the interaction of the solar and lunar gravitational effects , the shape of the oscillating basins , i.e. the seas and the oceans , the earth 's rotation , and the modification imposed upon tides by coastal configuration produces tides of varying range from virtually nil in many oceanic situations to very high figures at the head of certain bays and estuaries , for example 15 m ( 50 ft ) at the head of the Bay of Fundy and 12 m ( 40 ft ) at Avonmouth in the Bristol Channel . |
| 14 | Indeed , the appointment of customs commissioners and the various patent officers at the head of the establishment , such as comptroller-general , receiver-general , secretary and solicitor , were themselves items of crown patronage of the most valuable kind . |
| 15 | Such themes place Scottish studies at the head of urgent European concerns , at a time when cultures are often thought of as monolithic , and when cultural exclusivity is a source of often violent conflict . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century it was the practice , as Misson reminds us , to put bran and sawdust at the bottom of the coffin to a depth of about four inches , and extra wood shavings at the head end . |
| 17 | It is hard to judge how far the change in personalities at the head of the Iranian regime following Khomeini 's death in June 1989 simplified this process . |
| 18 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 19 | I move back from the river , walk the length of the glide and then , after swapping from leger to float tackle on my 13ft match rod , insert myself between two slender willows at the head of the run . |
| 20 | The proposals , confirmed as viable by the newly privatised Merseyside and North West Electricity Board , involve diverting some of the water from two streams at the head of the Falls and piping it underground to a small stone and slate turbine house at the bottom of the valley . |
| 21 | It was at some time within this period of dawning civilisation that the creatures at the head of the biological chain , that is , man 's early forebears , first experienced the effect of an intellectual development that directed their behaviour towards what was to become the origins of human cooperation . |
| 22 | The two ladies at the head of the little queue whispered together , then announced that if Mr Carter had no objection they would be happy to oblige Mr Mullings , as they did not like to think of Mrs Mullings having to face a storm unprotected . |
| 23 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 24 | I entered the Tourist Police at the head of the four of us in a mood for answers . |
| 25 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 26 | Having checked that they are heading for Prague , I give a lift to the two young men at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | The men at the head of coalition Liberalism were therefore execrated as dangerous . |
| 28 | One of the men at the head of the table brought his hand down hard on the table-top and the sound ceased . |
| 29 | ‘ So , we are agreed , ’ said one of the men at the head of the table . |
| 30 | One of the men at the head of the table rose , his glass in his hand , the gold of his ring clinking against the crystal . |