Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 2 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 3 | With only three minutes remaining in their Sharwood 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final clash against Pegasus , Sinead , who had only come on at the start of the second-half , popped up to score the only goal of the game . |
| 4 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 5 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 6 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 7 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 8 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 9 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 10 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 11 | Then one night Travis arrived , keyed up at the thought of seeing Rosemary again . |
| 12 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 13 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 14 | The scheme is due to be wound up at the end of December 1993 but until then , excepting one or two minor technical amendments affecting mortgage rescues/property management subsidiaries , the rules will remain unchanged . |
| 15 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 16 | It was accordingly wound up at the end of May . |
| 17 | The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive . |
| 18 | ( Goodman , 1978 , p. 30 ) Thus in Belgium , although most industrial sectors are covered by national ( industry-wide ) agreements providing minimum conditions which can be improved upon , in sectors such as the chemical industry these provisions are almost meaningless since the bulk of collective bargaining is carried out at the level of the plant or establishment ( Blanpain , 1982a ) . |
| 19 | At the fourth level analysis of fields of need is carried out at the top of the organization . |
| 20 | The research reported here was carried out at the request of the Scottish Office Education Department in June and in November 1991 . |
| 21 | In fact it seemed that at that time ( early 1977 ) sexual examination had become common practice at Heathrow Immigration Department , apparently carried out at the whim of the officials . |
| 22 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 23 | This initial mobilisation was carried out at the beginning of March with all staff receiving company induction , full food hygiene training and safety induction and familiarisation on board the two installations . |
| 24 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 25 | A pioneering and influential study in this field was carried out at the University of Birmingham by Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) . |
| 26 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 27 | Questions are often raised in this respect as to whether disinfection should be carried out at the end of a day , after work or the following morning before work . |
| 28 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 29 | Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose that the kind of processing carried out at the end of clauses depends on their degree of ‘ completeness ’ . |
| 30 | At percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography bile is often sampled on initial puncture of the liver at a site distant from the stricture whereas at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography sampling is usually carried out at the site of the stricture after it has been disrupted by insertion of an endoprosthesis . |