Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mukařovský wrote ( Garvin 1964 : 22 ) : The task of the structuralist analyst is therefore to identify deviations from existing linguistic and literary practice ( ‘ norms ’ ) occurring at one level of the text ( say its syntax ) , and then relate the structure of this level to that of the other levels ( rhythm , syllable-structure , aspects of subject matter , etc. ) , in order to define the structure of the text as a whole . |
| 2 | It represents Padmapani holding a blue lotus , and is located at one side of a cell entrance . |
| 3 | Everyone stands at one end of the pool , and when it is time to start I swim to the end of the pool and come back . |
| 4 | Ben Nevis stands at one end of the greatest mountain range in the Highlands , buttressing a grand array of ten Munros with altitudes above or near 4000 feet and forming an unbroken high skyline for several miles . |
| 5 | The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals . |
| 6 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 7 | Each team stands at one end of the room , in a line , one behind the other , facing the opposite end . |
| 8 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 9 | This chapter examines two aspects of organizational planning : the corporate plan , which usually covers a period of three to live years ; and the annual budget , which looks at one year of that plan in much greater detail . |
| 10 | So we 've looked , we 've looked at one lot of brackets times another lot , which is the most difficult thing to do really , and you can do that , no problem . |
| 11 | Thermoluminescence is emitted because crystal lattices contain defects , and electrons produced by the ionising radiation may become trapped at one type of defect ( a ‘ trap ’ ) . |
| 12 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 13 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |
| 14 | When the great pile of boots had been collected at one end of the carriage , he spoke again : |
| 15 | Lijphart 's ( 1968b ) typology of democratic systems classified liberal democratic systems along two dimensions — the extent of their social heterogeneity , ranging at one end of the continuum from homogeneous to fragmented at the other ; and the extent to which elite behaviour is collaborative or competitive . |
| 16 | At the 1843 Convention Haydon 's picture was hung at one end of the room ; above the chairman was a portrait of Clarkson and opposite it ‘ A Scene on the African Coast ’ . |
| 17 | Deem herself acknowledges that the match between policy decisions made at one level of government and what actually happens in the classroom may be less than perfect . |
| 18 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 19 | The abbot of Hailes , who kept a flock of 900 head at Longborough , was accused at one point of harassing his tenants there preparatory to enclosure , though he never went through with it . |
| 20 | In deciding whether police services are ‘ special ’ the court will take into account : ( 1 ) whether the officers are required to attend on private premises or in a public place ; ( 2 ) whether violence has already occurred or is imminent — if so , the services can not be ‘ special ’ ; ( 3 ) the nature of the event — public events like elections lie at one end of the spectrum , private events like weddings at the other , and events like football matches somewhere in the middle ; ( 4 ) whether protection can be provided without using officers who would otherwise be on other duties or off duty . |
| 21 | They begin at one end of the hall and finish at the other end , the North American steadily retreating , the South American relentlessly advancing . |
| 22 | For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary . |
| 23 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 24 | In this last programme in our short series on the boundaries of science , we 're going to look at one aspect of that most baffling and intriguing subject , the origin of life . |
| 25 | Now we need to look at one lot of something in brackets add another lot , well let's , let's forget about the first one being in brackets , let's say we 're doing ten take away six . |
| 26 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 27 | In this case , try feeding at one end of the tank and then , while the bolder fish are busy , feed the timid ones at the other end . |
| 28 | Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other . |
| 29 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 30 | He grabbed at one leg of the dressing-trolley to steady himself , forgetting his own weight and that the trolley was on wheels . |