Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | WASHINGTON , D.C. The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art has just published volume 11 of Sponsored Research in the History of Art 1991–1992 . |
| 2 | Proponents of community policing often feel dismayed at the recklessness with which carefully cultivated relationships are undermined by the authorisation of ‘ fire brigade ’ tactics at the first suggestion of disorder . |
| 3 | I an authorised officer in nineteen sixty eight , so it 'd have been twenty years and er from there I became er an instructor in nineteen eighty four er having successfully completed a number of national run courses on firearms , firearms tactics at the national school of firearms er which are in the metropolitan district and er Lancashire and West Yorkshire . |
| 4 | Table I shows the age distribution and patient characteristics at the initial evaluation of the 174 children with idiopathic constipation . |
| 5 | But I 've come to accept that it 's far more sensitive and vulnerable than my other possessions and it can not be hauled back to the manufacturers at the first sign of malfunction . |
| 6 | East Suffolk at university because a lot of erm the more well to do parents would erm would probably turn up their noses at the small amount of |
| 7 | Normally costing £4 for 125g , this pack is available to best readers at the special price of £3 p&p inclusive . |
| 8 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 9 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 10 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 11 | Rob , debonair and well-groomed ; the sunlight through stained glass making a coloured mosaic on the stone floor ; the music swelling as Heather , in ivory lace , arrived on her father 's arm , and Rob turning quickly to look at her , then watching her all the way down the aisle as she came towards him ; the hot prick of tears in Merrill 's eyes at the beautiful solemnity of the ceremony . |
| 12 | But the drinkers at the far end of the garden were gone . |
| 13 | At midnight there were four guards at the front gate of prison 888 , and there was one guard at the back gate . |
| 14 | In the same way the guards at the Great Gate of Gondor ‘ fell back before the command of [ Gandalf 's ] voice ’ , while at the last embassy near the Morannon ‘ before his upraised hand the foul Messenger recoiled ’ . |
| 15 | Jackson Chatterton had appeared in canary yellow pyjamas at the far end of the stateroom . |
| 16 | It would buy 16,393 homes at the current average of £61,000 each . |
| 17 | " The Orthodox clergy and Church in the western area " , he said , " will not assume the status appropriate to their rank so long as this same clergy at the very centre of the state remain in their present condition and on their present level " . |
| 18 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 19 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 20 | It is empirical facts of this general kind which justify the fieldworking anthropologist in putting domestic relationships at the very centre of his research interests . |
| 21 | They looked like some great beast with gaping mouth and hungry eyes , then I caught a movement over near the great elms at the far side of the common . |
| 22 | Speakers at the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities at Dunblane voiced concern about the planned reorganisation of local government being handled by the Scottish Office instead of by an independent commission as in England . |
| 23 | These are , if you like , minor branches at the outer edge of the great tree . |
| 24 | Like many designers at the top end of the market , he has an impressive range of accessories , from scents to handkerchiefs — making the range slightly more accessible . |
| 25 | THE wound response of several plant species involves the activation of proteinase inhibitor ( pin ) genes and the accumulation of pin proteins at the local site of injury and systemically throughout the unwounded aerial regions of the plant . |
| 26 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 27 | Never could they securely hold the Rhine until the Frisians at the lower end of it and the Saxons across it were tamed and Christianized . |
| 28 | While Yeltsin attempted to mobilise political support from the regions against the Supreme Soviet [ see above ] , a display of separatist militancy in speeches at the fourth Congress of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus , in Grozny ( capital of Chechnia ) on Oct. 3-4 , raised the level of tension in relations with Moscow . |
| 29 | The society is at present having a book sale , offering British Oceanographic Vessels at the reduced price of £9 , and it therefore seems appropriate to mention the volume at this time . |
| 30 | thin voices at the very brink of sense |