Example sentences of "at the [noun] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timid observers will marvel at the bravery of the men who dare descend into these black pits for enjoyment and adventure : their reward is a visit to a fantastic nether world the rest of us will never see . |
| 2 | That presupposes that at the date of the accounts all the relevant liabilities are known . |
| 3 | The basis of the argument was that since , at the date of the Shops Act 1950 , the only proceedings which the local authority could then have instituted to enforce the law against Sunday trading were criminal proceedings , section 71(1) should be read as limited to such proceedings . |
| 4 | And yet , of course , she had noticed ; the darkness once again hid the colour that rose to her cheeks at the recollection of the airs she had put on during those visits to the racecourse . |
| 5 | Tim Rodber had a much better game that at Murrayfield and won his share of the ball at the tail of the line-outs , but it remained an area where Ireland did hold their own through the excellent play of Neil Francis and Brian Robinson . |
| 6 | This project tries to offer some answers by looking in depth at the case of the Georgians since 1953 ( the death of Stalin ) . |
| 7 | The lawyers walked at the elbow of the landlords : a dispute about a ditch , a border , rights of way , and the landlord stood by , the peasants fought , the lawyers on both sides charged , delayed , charged some more , until the double ruin of plaintiff and defendant delivered up both sides into the proprietor 's hands . |
| 8 | It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract . |
| 9 | She shrieked at the sting of the blows , which left a red mark down one side of her face . |
| 10 | Three months on I er I 'm even mor angry , appalled and disgusted at the hypocrisy of the members opposite because , if they really care about the unemployed , why do n't they support this Scheme ? |
| 11 | Seeing his friend cowering in the corner of his cage at the mercy of the teachers , he felt the tears swell up in his eyes . |
| 12 | ROS : He 's at the mercy of the elements . |
| 13 | I 'm beginning to realize why perfectly sane people pitch themselves at the mercy of the elements miles from the security of terra firma , has provided the perfect resort for our first events of the . |
| 14 | He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you . |
| 15 | There is , of course , a heater and a heated rear screen and even a wash/wipe mechanism fitted to the hard top but once that has been removed , a five minute , two man job , the driver is at the mercy of the elements unless he is willing to pay extra for the folding soft top . |
| 16 | I was in no doubt that my lover had talent , but I had no doubt , too , that he would have remained either in relative obscurity or at the mercy of the likes of M. Chaillot and others had he not come across me . |
| 17 | Hired by the voyage , and at the mercy of the shipowners , they had no opportunity for combination at sea short of mutiny and only rare opportunity when on shore , and then only by petition and demonstration . |
| 18 | It was unthinkable that they should leave Fenella here at the mercy of the giants . |
| 19 | ‘ A sailing ship is at the mercy of the winds , and lacking them goes nowhere . |
| 20 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 21 | Unless we are prepared to defend it ourselves we will stay forever at the mercy of the moralists , their inquisitions and their laws . |
| 22 | His daytime fear is that ordinary people in the coming , computerised society ‘ could be at the mercy of the technocrats ’ . |
| 23 | Scientists of the former type are , in a sense , at the mercy of the phenomena they study ; what happens , and when , and under what conditions is largely beyond their control . |
| 24 | Without this , a person is completely at the mercy of the dangers that menace from without . |
| 25 | A stock of ‘ standard ’ components will not help when an unusual item is ‘ out of stock ’ , and with these you just have to accept that you are at the mercy of the suppliers . |
| 26 | The unity of India was imperilled , he said , by a government which was ‘ at the mercy of the rightists and the charity of the leftists ’ and which held power only by the magnanimity of the Congress leader , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , who did not try to form a government . |
| 27 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 28 | Marx argued throughout Capital that although slaves might be more at the mercy of the whims and fancies of their owners than wage workers , it was at least in the interest of the owner to ensure the minimum welfare of his slaves , since they were his property . |
| 29 | Relatively ignorant , inexperienced and amateur politicians may find themselves at the mercy of the bureaucracies , which possess knowledge , experience and technical expertise . |
| 30 | His back was to the window and he did not turn to spare a glance at the crush of the zeks who squirmed against the grime of the windows . |