Example sentences of "hit at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 2 | The era was further epitomized by the Beatles ' number one hit at the start of the year , ‘ Day Tripper ’ , and the Rolling Stones ' new album , Aftermath . |
| 3 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 4 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 5 | It hit at the root of his male pride , but also at the basis of his love for her . |
| 6 | MOVIES that are a smash hit at the box-office still end up losing millions . |
| 7 | Such work hit at the heart of the institution which the conservative-historians took to be so much under threat — the nuclear family . |
| 8 | Neighbours ' twins look to big panto hit at the Empire |
| 9 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 10 | He still had n't had any chart hits at the time and in fact did n't until ‘ Fame ’ . |
| 11 | This hits at the doctrine that Parliament can not bind , or curtail , the powers of future parliaments . |
| 12 | This hits at the established doctrine that the courts recognise no legal limits to Parliament 's legislative power . |
| 13 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |
| 14 | ‘ It hits at the work we do . ’ |
| 15 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 16 | The Prince was hitting at the running men with the flat of his sabre , but they feared an emperor far more than they feared a prince and so they kept on running . |
| 17 | Some development economists , hitting at the liberal dogmatism of the Bank and the Fund , were arguing in the late 1980s that the choice was not a simple either- or choice between Import Substitution or Export promotion . |
| 18 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 19 | He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle . |
| 20 | Pupil/peer recognition can hit at the very heart of the learning system and either inhibit or encourage progress . |