Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 2 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 3 | At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience . |
| 4 | The ability to organise a classroom , a group or an individual child , to structure experience so that learning not only occurs at the moment of teaching but remains ; the sensitivity to perceive the world from a child 's perspective , the understanding to build for tomorrow upon the child 's present , and to know and appreciate a child 's weaknesses and strengths — these are the skills which are the basis for a teacher 's claim to ‘ professionalism ’ . |
| 5 | When a complementary wavelength is used the response to the small spot only occurs at the offset of the stimulus . |
| 6 | In a like manner the force on an electron in an electric field has magnitude and direction but only exists at the coordinates of the electron . |
| 7 | The men worked steadily on , taking long breaks at the height of the day . |
| 8 | A fixed-term contract naturally expires at the end of the contract period . |
| 9 | Instead , stiff legged , he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years . |
| 10 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 11 | It only learns at the end of a search . |
| 12 | The model only works at the level of the textbook example , the single isolated sentence . |
| 13 | Because the history of the world , which only stops at the half-house of love to bulldoze it into rubble , is ridiculous without it . |
| 14 | Indeed Tivoli — who 's software already lies at the heart of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment and Unix International 's distributed vision of the future , Atlas — has already agreed to make WizDom compliant with the Object Management Group Request Broker specifications under its agreement with SunSoft Inc . |
| 15 | 14 The impulse finally arrives at the biceps by means of the motor end plate . |
| 16 | The difficulty presented by this use is that , to take ( 11 ) as an example , the seeing already exists at the moment of speech , at the moment of being glad , and , in fact , is apparently what brought about the gladness , hence Jespersen 's term . |
| 17 | Hateley , of course , spent three seasons in France with Monaco However , earlier this month , and just smiles at the mention of the Frenchman 's name . |
| 18 | Yeah , well er , yeah well go down there I mean he still lives at the back of the shops still just ask him |
| 19 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | The dead were carried in wicker coffins from Keld along the corpse road , stops being made along the way for food and drink , and every so often there were great " coffin stones " at the side of the way where the pallbearers could rest the body ( one such stone still stands at the side of Ivelet Bridge ) . |
| 21 | One nurse described how she always knocks at the door of a private room if there is a terminally ill patient in case she should catch them crying . |
| 22 | Now retired and living in Cotherstone , she still glows at the memory of parties thrown by the Thwaites and the Fawcetts . |
| 23 | But what ever happens at the end of the day , neither is going on the scrap heap because they are a diamond , so someone will snap up a diamond and it will retain it 's value and they will do very well . |
| 24 | It is possible to see Halliday 's view of theme — as whatever comes in initial position in the clause — as a reflection of ( a ) the nature of English as a language with relatively fixed word order , and ( b ) his study of Chinese , this being a language with a special category of topic which always occurs at the beginning of the clause . |
| 25 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 26 | She 's strong , forthright and does n't mind who she upsets — yet she still survives at the top of her profession . |
| 27 | The Conti family house still survives at the top of the ridge on which the little hill town is built : it has extensive views across to Segni and also to Anagni . |
| 28 | The largest exhibition of Matisse 's work ever opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , this autumn ( 24 September-12 January 1993 ) . |
| 29 | The Leeds boss still shudders at the memory of his old Sheffield Wednesday side going 4-3 down to Chelsea in a League Cup tie seven years ago after cruising at 3-0 up . |
| 30 | As dusk gradually falls at the end of Mid-summer 's Eve a flicker of bonfires links the highest points of Cornwall , from the far West to Kit Hill on the English border . |