Example sentences of "and [adv] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time the press throws mud ( not literally but in its columns ) at Princess Margaret , Princess Michael of Kent and latterly at the Duchess of York . |
| 2 | Make em laugh , make em cry , the Muppets from Lord Grade 's ATV , a pioneering puppet show … and right at the heart of it was Bill Ward . |
| 3 | He and his wife were a ‘ very , very thrifty ’ , simple-living couple , and right at the end of their long lives quite close . |
| 4 | Whoever farms the land in question may very well want the rabbits disposed of — but not at the price of constant disturbance of his land and perhaps at the risk of the well-being of the game shooting . |
| 5 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 6 | He stamped up and down at the limit of the firelight and listened to the silence of the hills . |
| 7 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 8 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll be able to take marvellous photos while he 's in India , wo n't he ? ’ her mother had gone on , and only at the tail-end of their conversation did she think to mention their mortgage . |
| 10 | The cells from the outside move into the interior during gastrulation and only at the end of the gastrulation are they more or less in their proper position . |
| 11 | Party structures were solidifying and governments more securely based and less at the mercy of House of Commons votes . |
| 12 | Some of these techniques have been extended and especially at the University of Birmingham G.R. Coope ( Coope et al . , |
| 13 | A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners . |
| 14 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 15 | Why should this penalty be mandatory , and not at the discretion of the court as in other offences ? |
| 16 | And had perhaps Grace Bird 's goddammit of irritation been directed at her and not at the ball of beige knitting wool which had just then rolled off the shelf of the dressing-table ? |
| 17 | There are far too many people looking into the mind of the murderer and not at the agony of mind of the relations of the murdered person . |
| 18 | Doubt is therefore tackled primarily at the point of action and not at the point of reflection . |
| 19 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 20 | It would be true to describe the discipline as having achieved an astounding success if such success is measured in terms of the establishment of English literature as the central arts subject at A level , and thus at the basis of the constant demand for undergraduate places . |
| 21 | Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape . |
| 22 | Well if you have the footnote bible like I 've got here , you look down the bottom and speaks about those who are beggars , beggars for the spirit and just at the bottom of our road where we live er there 's a little area there which quite busy and er there 's a man who parades up and down there daily , he 's there nonstop every day of the week , you can go by there any time , any day and he 's there begging and he has no shame at all , and if you refuse him once he 'll catch you another day and he 'll ask you again , and you 'll see him there backwards and forwards and he 'll even when the traffic lights turn red |
| 23 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 24 | For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak . |
| 25 | To understand why the " female question " came to a head in 1910 , we need to look at Edinburgh 's competitiveness as a printing centre , in particular after the introduction of Monotype machines ; at the changing attitudes of the men in the Edinburgh Typographical Society ( ETS ) ; and finally at the history of the 1910 dispute itself . |
| 26 | My contention is that God and christian principles need to be set explicitly and overtly at the heart of this declaration of ideals . |
| 27 | Check that your own name , the name of your tutor , the title of the essay and the course are displayed clearly and prominently at the top of page one . |
| 28 | The seventeenth century witnessed a tremendous expansion of the lord 's demesne at the expense of some of the tenants ' arable and possibly at the loss of their commons as well . |
| 29 | Claire ranges back and forth at the foot of the bed , throwing her arms around for emphasis . |
| 30 | The man is known to have ordered the taxi from a telephone kiosk between 5am and 6am at the junction of Ryhope Road and Askrigg Avenue in Sunderland on Sunday . |