Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 3 | Best played as a team game with the class , especially at the ends of days , weeks or terms . |
| 4 | It should look not only at the responsibilities of Government , but at the contributions that others make : business , local authorities , NGOs and members of the public alike . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 6 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 7 | It is not just at the ends of words where compression methods can be applied . |
| 8 | It is not just at the ends of words where common letter sequences can make use of the same nodes in a tree structure . |
| 9 | If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then . |
| 10 | This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored . |
| 11 | The coroner , gazing longingly at the jugs of claret , was about to protest . |
| 12 | A FIREBOMB was defused by Army bomb disposal officers near Windsor Castle yesterday at the publishers of blood sports magazines . |
| 13 | Or should he sit back in his chair and smile calmly at the idiocies of mankind ? |
| 14 | He came and stood behind her , staring over her shoulder at the screen , frowning darkly at the columns of figures displayed . |
| 15 | Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics . |
| 16 | ‘ Sit , girls , ’ she said , looking round severely at the rows of pupils . |
| 17 | Marcus looked tearfully at the piles of clothes . |
| 18 | Panting and breathless , she forged ahead , looking now at the cliffs of North Foreland , which looked within walking distance today , and now at some fishing-boats far out at sea . |
| 19 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 20 | A small band of researchers , based mainly at the Universities of Manitoba and Guelph , in Canada , and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ( CIMMYT ) in Mexico , worked hard at eliminating the undesirable traits of triticale . |
| 21 | Havelock Ellis said , ‘ A worm gnaws periodically at the roots of women 's life . ’ |
| 22 | They spoke frequently by phone and soon found reasons to meet , often at the homes of friends . |
| 23 | Leila sauntered round his desk , looking intently at the mounds of equipment covering it . |
| 24 | The Royal Society seems to have achieved little in this direction in its early years ; in Paris , however , the academie fostered someone who worked diligently at the applications of science . |
| 25 | A few yards away he noticed a couple of unsympathetic men raising the lid of the Luggage and pointing excitedly at the bags of gold . |
| 26 | He studied chemistry at Kassel Polytechnic and then at the universities of Jena and Marburg . |
| 27 | It was astonishment that anybody could have expected anything else and consequently at the paroxysms of indignation which Government and opposition , press and public , exhibited . |
| 28 | As Folly exited from the changing-rooms , the sound came from behind her , and she swung round to see Luke leaning against the wall , looking across at the scenes of relaxation in the Seraglio with a look of malicious amusement on his face . |
| 29 | He has a fine technique and a good grasp of Lisztian idiom : the Mephisto Waltz in particular has suffered horribly at the hands of stop/go pianists who ‘ apply the brakes ’ all over the place . |
| 30 | We have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users |