Example sentences of "[art] [adj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 2 | Many academics and journalists who gave warning that liberalisation and the Congress Party culture were fattening the rich at the expense of the poor are understandably silent . |
| 3 | They have benefited the rich at the expense of the poor , and Britain in 1990 is a much more unequal society than it was in 1979 . |
| 4 | Opponents of the government argued that the objective as well as the consequence of the legislation was to increase the after-tax incomes of the rich at the expense of the poor . |
| 5 | As most average families are in the bottom 60 per cent. , does not that show that the Government have given money to the rich at the expense of ordinary families ? |
| 6 | The banding system and property valuations are devised deliberately to protect the rich at the expense of the rest . |
| 7 | The second problem that would have troubled the faithful at the death of the last apostle was this . |
| 8 | This was shortly before another concession had been granted — one more to the British at the expense of the Russians . |
| 9 | LORD ALDINGTON told a High Court jury yesterday he remembered making inquiries to ensure that thousands of Yugoslavs repatriated by the British at the end of the Second World War would be properly treated . |
| 10 | Contrary to assessments made by the British at the time of signing , there are many examples of these . |
| 11 | Analysis of air bubbles trapped in the ice of the Antarctic at the time of the last Ice Ages , and now buried deep beneath the surface , show that at that time CO 2 levels were extremely low . |
| 12 | The crime is to disclose an official secret , probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol . |
| 13 | While the criticism that Lévi-Strauss , structuralism emphasizes the synchronic at the expense of the diachronic has assumed the status of a critical truism , this in fact repeats the substance of his critique of Sartre , namely that the latter attempted to transform history into a space of synchronicity . |
| 14 | Medicine was a particular interest of the Tughluk Sultans , and Sultan Muhammed 's nephew Firoz Shah founded no fewer than seventy dispensaries and a Shifa Khana ( or Central Hospital ) where free food , drink and medicine were supplied to the sick at the expense of the treasury . |
| 15 | Stuart Laing and Norman Robson , two big captures from Ballymena head the cast with the former filling in at full-back and the latter at the base of the scrum . |
| 16 | A sociological perspective implies exploring the relationship between what is perceived as ‘ good ’ ( or ‘ healthy ’ ) and ‘ bad ’ ( or ‘ unhealthy ’ ) , rather than focussing exclusively on the latter at the expense of the former . |
| 17 | It was a good knock about but no-one is any the wiser at the end of it . |
| 18 | The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons . |
| 19 | They were formed over fifty centuries ago by the Phoenix King Caledor the first at the start of the schism between the High Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 20 | There would be reviews of the agreement every two years , the first at the end of 1993 . |
| 21 | He straightened the folds , and ran his fingers through the dead youth 's thick thatch of reddish-brown hair , up from the nape to the rounding at the back of the head , where that seam had rested , and surely helped to break the force of the blow . |
| 22 | It is no good explaining the microscopic at the expense of the macroscopic . |
| 23 | An individual shall be deemed to have received a capital sum or be entitled to receive such a sum where a third person receives the same or is entitled to receive the same at the direction of the individual or where the individual assigns his right ( by , for instance , a deed of assignment or an equitable assignment ) to receive the sum to such third person ( s739(5) ) . |
| 24 | And his style was much the same at the end of the campaign as at the beginning : he stayed true to himself . |
| 25 | The volatility of the sterling series is much greater with particularly rapid growth being experienced in the mid-eighties at the time of sterling 's decline against the dollar . |
| 26 | Tony was the first Technical Adviser for the lager operation and ran the training programme for all the breweries that handled the brand in the 1960s at the beginning of the later boom . |
| 27 | Whereas Christmas is viewed as a more sedate family occasion , Hogmanay is quite the opposite , and young and old see out the old year in style and ring in the new at the top of their voice . |
| 28 | The Emperor 's armour was made for him by Dwarf smiths and incorporates some of the actual armour worn by Magnus the Pious at the battle of Kislev . |
| 29 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 30 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |