Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the findings of psycho-analysis , a conflict surrounding unconscious homosexual elements is at the centre of the psychosis known as paranoia ( or paranoid schizophrenia ) . |
| 2 | It is safe to say that thousands of social workers are at the moment carrying such cases among their caseloads and are working on them : in some cases very efficiently , in others perhaps hampered somewhat by lack of understanding of the implications . |
| 3 | Some commentators suggested that the improved relations were at the root of Khadafi 's adoption of an uncharacteristically low profile during the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | And in a poll on who gets sexual satisfaction , British females are at the bottom . |
| 5 | Disputes over the role of the state and the extent of state provision of public services are at the heart of many political controversies , but there are other considerations affecting the special role of local government . |
| 6 | President we should be under no illusion that this reactionary government will continue to attack local government to attack local to attack local government our public services are at the mercy of the fast-buck merchants within the private contractors who are bidding for council services . |
| 7 | It seemed quite strange to read an allegation about the Royal Show being merely a big local show placed on the same page in FARMERS WEEKLY as a paragraph mentioning the fact that German ministers were at the Royal Show to forge links between the UK farmers and farm businesses . |
| 8 | The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan . |
| 9 | The only two working models were at the ‘ Ideal Home Exhibition ’ , and there they were working only from signals generated by a personal computer . |
| 10 | Three central concerns are at the heart of the annual report , says designer Nigel Forsyth : ‘ creating an understanding of the company , communicating its performance , and — the magic bit — reflecting its personality ’ . |
| 11 | The only remaining seats were at the front . |
| 12 | In Britain Grundig has slashed the price of its European-made V2000 video recorders to less than £300 — thereby making a nonsense of the claim that dumping by Japanese firms was at the root of the crisis in the European industry . |
| 13 | This only illustrates how very scarce male dancers were at the time . ’ |
| 14 | It becomes graded so that the smallest and smoothest particles are at the bottom and the largest and most angular are at the top . |
| 15 | Th this is something that is developing members will be aware of the er proposals for er competition for white collar services and we sh we recharge these costs at the moment historic leases and the central departments are at the moment developing er trading accounts for all these and as we develop that work we we can correct our previous charges so there will be some sort of changes in the way we charge and as I say that 's coming through in these costs committees because it 's it 's shifting money around between different committees so we shifted the budget at the same time . |
| 16 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 17 | It is therefore timely to consider what the impact of this mandatory scheme for school self-evaluation has been on the teachers , recalling what the stated intentions were at the outset : |
| 18 | Under the test , the question is how reasonable such clauses are at the time the contract is made . |
| 19 | About half the 60 remaining employees are at the Massachusetts headquarters , the rest are in worldwide service locations . |
| 20 | For a ‘ hard-rock ’ school , however , with interests in non-sedimentary rocks , this is hardly surprising , since the largest proportion of Britain 's igneous and metamorphic rocks are at the surface in Scotland , compared with England . |
| 21 | Kuiken says that : " These animals are at the top of the food chain , so they would have the highest concentration of pollutants in their bodies . |
| 22 | These parameters are at the limits of those allowed by treefall simulations . |
| 23 | One of the most significant collections of these models is at the Museo ‘ La Specola ’ , at the University of Florence , where life-size models created in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century are on display . |
| 24 | In the same paper the authors summarise geochemical studies which suggest that the younger Westphalian beds are at the wet gas stage of maturity , but that the Westphalian A , the Namurian , the Dinantian , and the Devonian are all at the dry gas stage . |
| 25 | The only queues ever seen at ‘ The Tip ’ these days are at the tea counter , where 86-year-old Mrs Scricle attempts to deal with thirsty fans . |
| 26 | These networks are at the heart of policy-making in the United States and are even important in understanding how the US president makes appointments to senior levels in the Federal government . |
| 27 | These firms were at the time of out visit listed over each block of filing cabinets . |
| 28 | It sounds like politics of the Nineties but in fact these topics were at the forefront of public debate in Middlesbrough 120 years ago . |
| 29 | Perhaps it 's surprising that in some cases the learning outcomes and performance criteria were not being assessed or applied — all the National Certificate publications stress that these features are at the heart of the competence-based system and that they can not be varied under any circumstances . |
| 30 | These programs are at the very least annoying and at their worst destructive . |