Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This use of Shakespeare , the central figure of Anglo-Saxon culture , stresses that the poem is not only about the cultural change in Venice , but about that at the heart of our own language and culture also . |
| 2 | In a simple agricultural community , such as that at the time of the Pentateuch , this meant each family being able to own land . |
| 3 | Allan Roberts repeated his prevarication of 8th December in his summing-up speech for Labour at the conclusion of the 9th March 1988 Parliamentary debate . |
| 4 | Oh they they 've applied for that at the bottom of Road is n't it ? |
| 5 | That 's an er an expenses form and you know bring this information with you to the in-house course , the three days in-house erm because they 'll ask you for that at the end of . |
| 6 | I said thankyou for that at the end of an exercise . |
| 7 | are they going to ask for this at the end of the installation ? |
| 8 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 9 | It was enclosed after 1767 at the behest of the Duke of Dorset who acquired 700 acres as a result . |
| 10 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 11 | It is useful at this stage to indicate that guarantors and indemnifiers are of two types , those who act as such at the request of the customer and those who were not requested by the customer to do so . |
| 12 | BY their defence the defendants pleaded ( 1 ) that the letter of January 3 , 1940 , constituted an agreement that the rent reserved should be £1,250 only , and that such agreement related to the whole term of the lease , ( 2 ) in the alternative , that the plaintiff company were estopped from alleging that the rent exceeded £1,250 per annum , and ( 3 ) as a further alternative , that by failing to demand rent in excess of £1,250 before their letter of September 21 , 1945 ( received by the defendants on September 24 ) , they had waived their rights in respect of any rent , in excess of that at the rate of £1,250 , which had accrued up to September 24 , 1945 . |
| 13 | Waddell , a Professor of Tibetan at the University of London , believed that the Aryans were the bearers of culture and had originated all the main civilizations in history . |
| 14 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 15 | Functionalists fail to acknowledge that social institutions do not operate ‘ magically ’ in the interests of all but frequently work to the benefit of some at the expense of others . |
| 16 | An example of this at the level of the firm was provided in Chapter 1 where , despite having similar plant and equipment in both Halewood and Saarlouis , the Ford Motor Company 's productivity in the latter plant was much higher . |
| 17 | " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before . |
| 18 | While Barth had by no means worked through all the implications of this at the time of his controversy with Brunner , the disagreement which came into the open in 1934 can be seen in retrospect as foreshadowing the shape of his own future theology . |
| 19 | He retired from practice at the bar in the summer of 1802 at the age of fifty after a long and painful illness , having made a fortune . |
| 20 | Suppose that a two-year bond with cash flows of 10.25 at the end of year 1 and 110.25 at the end of year 2 is trading at par ( i.e. has a par yield of 10.25 per cent ) . |
| 21 | The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave . |
| 22 | I 'd have been very happy playing an old lady of ninety at the age of fifteen . |
| 23 | questions — you will find lots of these at the end of each section : they are included mainly to stimulate your own reflections as you read , but they could also be drawn on when group discussion — at a meeting in a parish or deanery or diocesan synod — is being planned |
| 24 | Then it was three out of three at the start of the second half . |
| 25 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |
| 26 | For example , Mrs Moreen 's remark " And all overclouded by this , you know- all at the mercy of a weakness " ( 9 ) has the anaphoric repetition of all at the beginning of successive clauses , and has two banal colloquial metaphors in the expressions " overclouded " and " at the mercy of " . |
| 27 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 28 | We looked first of all at the relationship of grammar to discourse and the extent to which formal cohesive ties operate across sentence boundaries . |
| 29 | Wages rose by 2 per cent for every 1 per cent increase in productivity according to figures for February , and unemployment rose in March by 63,000 to a total of 1,322,000 at the end of the month . |
| 30 | Isolation of those at the foot of the pyramid of authority , the Panopticon principle , was central to maintaining the image of the force on the street . |