Example sentences of "sits at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Fiat Croma Turbo sits at the peak of the Italian manufacturer 's range at £19 , 249 . |
| 2 | It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye 's superb book . |
| 3 | THE NUCLEUS sits at the heart of the atom , its constituent protons and neutrons bound together by the strong nuclear force . |
| 4 | One example of an organism possessed of such a rather basic nervous system is the tiny , pond-living hydra ( Fig 7.3 ) , which sits at the bottom of ponds and streams attached to rocks or water plants and waving its tentacles above its mouth . |
| 5 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 6 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
| 7 | Another , indeterminate — but male — figure sits at the foot of a street lamp , among bollards near Le Sueur 's equestrian statue of Charles I. To the left of the sculptured pedestal of the statue is the afterimage of a third figure — silhouetted against the awning of a shop : the transparent hat , head and shoulders of another cab-driver . |
| 8 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 9 | Vic sits at the head of the table , in his shirtsleeves , half a cup of cold coffee at his right hand . |
| 10 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 11 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 12 | An image of your PC keyboard sits at the top of the screen and around the edges are a variety of indicators for accuracy and speed . |
| 13 | The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure . |
| 14 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 15 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 16 | At his farm in Berrien Springs , Michigan , Ali sits at the end of a table in the living-room . |
| 17 | Their first single ‘ Mystery Train ’ is restructured with bleeps and beats to sound altogether moodier , while ‘ Senses ’ is one of those emotional anthems that sits at the end of the set . |
| 18 | These jettison the shared medium of Ethernet in favour of a star-shaped configuration in which each networked device sits at the end of its own private Ethernet segment , where it gets the benefit of the whole 10Mbps . |
| 19 | The great man himself sits at an aircraft-carrier of a desk across the room from the entrance . |