Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
2 | IF YOU want to know the pecking order of the various departments in Britain 's universities , try looking at the shareout of the 312 new academic posts announced by the Department of Education and Science last week . |
3 | Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses . |
4 | Lord Zuckerman , who is pictured below with Mr Healey , was Professor of Anatomy at the University from the 1940s until 1968 . |
5 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
6 | Concern is also being expressed about the proposed construction of a large dam at the north of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River . |
7 | The tenant may wish to dispense with 7.6.3 , 7.6.4 , 7.6.5 and 7.6.6 and add the following proviso to 7.6.2 : If for any reason the premises and all other relevant parts of the centre sufficient for the Tenant [ or any undertenant ] to carry on its [ or their ] normal trade and business including the means of access to the Premises and all essential services therein and thereto shall not be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this clause as they were at the date of the relevant destruction or damage by the second anniversary of the date of the destruction or damage the Tenant may thereafter determine the Term by giving not less than one month 's notice to the Landlord and upon expiry of such notice the Term shall cease but without prejudice to the claim of either party for any earlier breach of covenant by the other This will doubtless be resisted by the landlord who will wish to have the unilateral right to terminate . |
8 | In any proceedings it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that , at the date of the alleged contravention , the instrument had not been issued by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office . |
9 | As trespass is an interference with possession , it follows that if the plaintiff were not in possession at the date of the alleged meddling , he can not sue for trespass . |
10 | If ‘ right of property ’ means ‘ ownership , ’ this might lead one to infer that no one can sue for conversion except an owner in possession at the date of the alleged conversion . |
11 | If , when agreed , the restraint was not excessive it will remain valid in law but in deciding whether to grant equitable relief by way of injunction , the court will have regard to the circumstances obtaining at the date of the alleged breach . |
12 | ( 13 ) For the purposes of any proceedings at the quarterly meeting in March in the final year of office of members of a licensing board which are not finally disposed of before the expiry in that year of the term of office of the members , the members of the licensing board in office at the date of the said meeting shall , notwithstanding such expiry , be deemed to constitute the licensing board . |
13 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
14 | After some initial hesitation it now seems to be generally accepted that the value should be assessed at the date of the conversion ( though it should be noted that in other contexts the courts show some resistance to any universal rule that damages are to be assessed at the date of the wrong ) . |
15 | During the long periods between revaluations , distortions in the relative valuations of different properties occurred and , of course , new property had to be valued at the notional figure that would have obtained at the date of the previous revaluation . |
16 | At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged . |
17 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
18 | She paused at the brink of the wet , shiny pavement . |
19 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
20 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
21 | For centuries cities such as Damascus and Aleppo were at the hub of the regional economy . |
22 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
23 | At the inception of the new market arrangements in October 1986 , there were 27 GEMMs with an aggregate capital of £595 million . |
24 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
25 | Tallis stared down at the shard of the ruined statue and with a thrill of pleasure realized that she did : an image of the female in the land . |
26 | At the peak of the Middle Ages , around the year 1200 , Christianity was more or less solidly established as the religion of Europe . |
27 | In 1975 , at the peak of the conservative onslaught , he was appointed deputy minister of culture , and a year later was put in charge of the ministry . |
28 | The deposit of a variety of jade amulets for ensuring good fortune and warding off ill-luck among Fu Hao 's grave goods shows that jade had already begun to be directed to individual needs as early as the Shang dynasty , at least for one at the peak of the social system . |
29 | Several studies have shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide was as little as half the present concentration at the peak of the latest Ice Age , but it has not been clear if this is cause or effect . |
30 | Bloomberg decided to raise the stakes at the peak of the latest reporting season . |