Example sentences of "[det] of the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billie Rudyard , who is co-ordinating the course , explained : ‘ The women will be able to get ‘ hands on ’ experience during the course , by doing some of the work at the new centre . ’ |
| 2 | Some of the attendance at the Galway Pensioners ' Annual Dinner . |
| 3 | Did you have some of the punch at the party . |
| 4 | Some compare Portia 's characteristics to that of the Queen at the time — Elizabeth I. Women were thought of being inferior and for a woman to have so much power was a very rare situation . |
| 5 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 6 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 7 | The only other clues available on this aspect until now have been air bubbles in polar ice caps , but there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped . |
| 8 | Much of the discussion at the meeting was about issues not directly related to cycling , such as the wearing of rear seat belts . |
| 9 | A rockfall at the extreme right-hand end of Bwlch Y Moch earlier on this year was recently followed by the departure of much of the belay at the top of pitch one of Merlin . |
| 10 | As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture . |
| 11 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |
| 12 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 13 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 14 | The second preferences of any of the candidate 's surplus votes , plus those of the candidate at the bottom of the poll , are then redistributed , and so on until the necessary number of candidates reach the quota . |
| 15 | Conversely , government spending will increase the deposits of the banks and reduce those of the government at the Bank of England . |
| 16 | On the lower parts of the marsh , which are most frequently covered by the tide , accretion at the rate of almost 1 cm per year has been recorded at Scolt Head Island , while at higher levels , where the frequency of flooding by the tide is less , this is reduced to one half or less of the rate at the lowest levels . |
| 17 | Here details are given both of the executive at the PR consultancy working on the account and the relevant executive at the client company . |
| 18 | The effectiveness or otherwise of the various elements of these promotions provoked most of the discussion at the seminar . |
| 19 | The sphere of darkness covers most of the chamber at the top of the Tower . |
| 20 | They turned the telephone down and spent most of the evening at the cinema . |