Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motherwell 's task against Rangers at Fir Park will be to join Dundee in continuing to put plenty of distance between themselves and the clubs , Falkirk and Airdrie , who are at the foot of the table . |
| 2 | 1.6 This allowance is based upon staff who are at the top of the grade at the present time and translates into the following : |
| 3 | There is , even with a relatively sophisticated system of cross-phase planning , the difficulty that the children who are directly affected are those who are at the top of the primary school and at the youngest end of the secondary age range . |
| 4 | Mr Powell , of course , has not been notably shy about declaring his belief that it is black people who are at the root of the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 5 | Again Moloney offers such an analysis of the younger DUP activists : ‘ … men like Robinson , Allister and Kane who are at the start of political careers know that the negative politics practised for so long by their leader would deny them the office and power that could be theirs . ’ |
| 6 | With the coming of a new democracy to Spain , however , the situation has been transformed ; enormous quantities of previously inaccessible research materials have become available to historians , and now , quite properly , it is the Spaniards themselves who are at the forefront of research , publication and the challenging of old orthodoxies . |
| 7 | Membership of the Party increased dramatically to , to two million people and then the masses under leadership again saying there was , they 're , they 're looking at about ten million , and they 're saying half the peasants in the are organized , that these are , are people who are , who , who are at the forefront of the , of the movement , involvement is , is very high . |
| 8 | of the people who are at the end of a said they did n't get enough . |
| 9 | The PMRC , who 're at the forefront of censoring music in America , certainly think so , in their usual over-reacting way . |
| 10 | During the days I go and see my friends , most of the people who were at the hotel at the same time as I was have been moved up here . |
| 11 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 12 | Most casualties ( 46% ) recorded involved people who were at the time of the incident standing in buses , but it is not always clear from the recorded data whether the passengers were standing due to the vehicle 's seating capacity being fully utilised or were on their feet moving towards a seat or the bus exit . |
| 13 | With a political prisoner escaped , all of us who were at the City of the Horizon must come under increased scrutiny . ’ |
| 14 | The collections indicated a wider hidden culture of support for ‘ the lads ’ who were at the forefront of the battle to restore national unity , in addition to the much smaller party political support they enjoyed in the South . |
| 15 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 16 | Harmsworth was one of many — others include Marconi and the pioneers of the film industry — who were at the forefront of what Briggs has called ‘ the development of the mass entertainment industry ’ at the turn of the century . |
| 17 | On the contrary , it was the most urbanized workers , those with the highest levels of skill , education and wages who were at the forefront of labour protest . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're unwilling to tell me who 's at the back of all this , so I thought I 'd keep a watch in case anyone turned up and solve the mystery myself . ’ |
| 19 | In Funny Business it 's a clown who 's at the centre of the fun . |
| 20 | The organiser of a Kurdish refugee charity who 's at the centre of a fraud squad investigation is reported to be carrying out relief work in Turkey . |
| 21 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 22 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 23 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 24 | James Cropper who was at the centre of the efforts to establish a national antislavery body to work directly for emancipation declared roundly , ‘ We have no wild schemes of emancipation … we rather wish the thing may work its own way by the force of faith and the operation of circumstances . ’ |
| 25 | As their investigation progressed , so did their conviction that it was the President himself who was at the heart of the deception . |
| 26 | Also receiving OBEs were ITN cameraman Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , who was at the investiture with his wife ITN newsreader Carol Barnes , and former England cricket manager Micky Stewart . |
| 27 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 28 | Arthur Browning , the son of Stamford architect Edward Browning , who was at the school in the 1870's , reports that ‘ The initiation of the new boys kissing the face of the ‘ Old Man' ’ , which forms the keystone of the church door , was seldom practised ’ and J. H. Boam of the same period recalled that the ceremony was only undertaken if a pupil had done anything to dishonour the school . |
| 29 | Princess Anne , who was at the helm of the boat she chose with his help , gazed back and told him simply : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 30 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |