Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he struggled to find winners at the start of the season , the cries of gleeful recrimination reached a crescendo . |
| 2 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 3 | ‘ The world itself is God 's greatest miracle ’ , he wrote , defending God 's freedom to work miracles at the cost of dissolving the idea of a nature which is subject to its own laws in the freedom of the divine will . |
| 4 | They were given authority to make decisions to help guests at the point of contact . |
| 5 | The general principle of proportional representation is surely a more democratic one than any system which tends to over-represent majorities at the cost of under-representing minorities — if they are lucky enough to be represented at all . |
| 6 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 7 | CROWDS lined the streets of Wrexham to cheer riders at the start of yesterday 's 120 mile Milk Race leg to Rotherham . |
| 8 | He raised the receiver to his ear and waited , his face pale in the subdued light of the room , impatience beginning to mark lines at the edge of his lips . |
| 9 | One usual method is to leave gaps at the end of each block so that records can be inserted into a block ( with only slight reorganisation of the records in that block to maintain the correct order ) . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not appropriate for staff members to put guests at the centre of … scenes . ’ |
| 11 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 12 | You know , something to give customers at the end of the year . |
| 13 | Imagine an economy in which firms , for whatever reason , agree to fix prices at the end of period t to cover period t + 1 and t + 2 and not to alter these prices in either period t + 1 or t + 2 if circumstances differ from those expected at the close of period t . |
| 14 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |
| 15 | Each rod or cone contains a photo-sensitive pigment and the changes this undergoes when exposed to light cause a signal to be passed to nerve cells at the front of the retina . |
| 16 | Margaret Irwin " paid three visits to Edinburgh to address meetings at the invitation of the Typographical Association " , and the STA Annual Report of 1898 claimed that the new society " bids fair to succeed ; if it will be the means , as anticipated , of improving the position of the male comp [ sic , my italics ] there will be no lack of well-wishers " . |
| 17 | Bush arrived on Dec. 31 , flying to Mogadishu from the USS Tripoli to address troops at the start of a 48-hour visit in which he was also to go to Baidoa . |
| 18 | The nice thing about the Program Manager is that if you tidy it once , you will always be presented with an organised opening screen , provided , of course , that you do not instruct Windows to save changes at the end of each session . |
| 19 | It also meant reassuring West European countries worried about a unified Germany that America intended to maintain troops at the heart of the continent . |
| 20 | A frank talk was a help , but it was no substitute for knowing what it was like to have to milk cows at the crack of dawn every morning or mend fences , or battle with the elements , and so he began a series of annual stays on Duchy farms . |
| 21 | She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King . |
| 22 | The vilification of Arthur Scargill , the unbalanced emphasis on picket-line violence and intimidation , the failure to explain issues at the heart of the strike , the criminalization of striking miners , the unquestioned assumptions of police neutrality and the fundamental contradiction between the reality experienced by striking communities and the distorted presentation of that reality through the mass media — these were the key components of the media 's ideological policing of the strike . |
| 23 | The charging clause will enable him to collect fees at the end of the trust . |
| 24 | Likewise , they expressed a desire to involve parents at the centre of decision-making . |
| 25 | It was with Mel helping to dominate matters at the heart of the Palace rearguard that our club earned its first-ever place in Division One in 1969 , and then , alongside evergreen John McCormick , Mel matured into one of the best uncapped centre-halves in the top flight . |
| 26 | As Mr Tony Banks MP has said , ‘ Television should broaden peoples knowledge about parliamentary affairs and the performance of the Government and Opposition , and give them a better base on which to make judgements at the time of the election ’ . |
| 27 | A breakdown of the trades involved in the faults appears to show bricklayers at the top of the blacklist . |
| 28 | The ability to produce flowers at the drop of a hat or a cake to celebrate a customer 's birthday should all be at his or her fingertips . |
| 29 | pupils are able and mature enough to make choices at the age of 13/14 ; |
| 30 | I then began to enter competitions at the age of seven , riding a Yamaha fifty with a five-speed gearbox . |