Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 2 | Louis , a sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road . |
| 3 | Louis , an all-round sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road on 13 July . |
| 4 | He had a successful operation in December but suffered problems with his shoulder socket while training at the start of last month . |
| 5 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 6 | Earlier , five unarmed demonstrators were reportedly shot dead in late April in Manfalut , south-west of Cairo in the Fayourn region , reportedly while protesting at the banning of a traditional Moslem festival . |
| 7 | The dream ended one day when I hit a hole whilst flashing at the speed of light down Chanterlands Avenue . |
| 8 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 9 | She describes the incident that sparked off , or at least increased , her concern about the content of contemporary television programmes , as happening at the height of the Honest to God debate . |
| 10 | … For the purpose of these proceedings it is to be assumed that the plaintiff 's injuries as subsisting at the time of her birth were caused by the act or omission of the defendant in the driving of his car . |
| 11 | Second , as regards durability , the goods should last for a reasonable time and any breach should be regarded as occurring at the time of supply rather than when the lack of durability became apparent . |
| 12 | One sees more of the bowl and stem of the Picasso Compotier , for instance , than one would in normal vision if one assumed the same high viewpoint when looking at the top of it ; and the gourd behind is painted as though in silhouette or directly at eye level . |
| 13 | No such clear-cut patterns emerge when looking at the substance of their preferences : whom they had chosen to comment on , and whether they regarded them favourably or unfavourably . |
| 14 | The DTI showed ‘ lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach ’ when looking at the activities of the investment group . |
| 15 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 16 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
| 17 | When looking at the amount of the benefit under s740 of TA 1988 some assistance may be obtained by looking at how the problem is dealt with in other areas of taxation . |
| 18 | Some aspects of the nature of the site have already been discussed when looking at the effect of the building regulations . |
| 19 | Since , as we saw when looking at the financing of the PSBR , such borrowing does not increase the money supply , it reduces the otherwise expansionary effect on the money supply of the PSBR . |
| 20 | The statistical resemblance is measured by comparing mean values and ranges of actual and simulated sequences , as well as looking at the distribution of runs of wet or dry days . |
| 21 | But it is the realm of production itself ( of paid employment ) which is seen by this perspective as lying at the heart of capitalism and uneven development . |
| 22 | Many authorities regard the Monoplacophora as lying at the root of the other molluscan groups ; gastropods , cephalopods and even bivalves may have been derived from them . |
| 23 | I see its loss as lying at the root of many current social problems . ’ |
| 24 | I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 . |
| 25 | Well that 's something that a as a teacher we 're erm in my school we 're constantly saying t to the pupils I mean if they ha they have a they have a certain responsibility t to tidy up after them and t to try and keep their work area tidy that 's not the same as er as cleaning at the end of the day as sweeping up all all the dust and and so on . |
| 26 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |
| 27 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |
| 28 | It was the same feeling as that experienced when standing at the edge of an enormous drop and the desire to jump seems overpowering . |
| 29 | Gains or losses from this notional disposal are treated as accruing at the time of the intra-group transfer . |