Example sentences of "[adj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni took a mouthful of her drink , suddenly dry-mouthed at the thought of that . |
| 2 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 3 | Was it a mania for translating bishops — represented at its oddest in the idea that it was sensible at the age of 73 to move the revered George Bell to one of these sees ? |
| 4 | The TAGH solution ( 9 ml ) was made up fresh at the time of the experiment and infused by the tail vein from 20 ml hyperdermic syringes mounted in horizontal syringe pumps set to deliver 3 ml/h . |
| 5 | It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign . |
| 6 | It is much too risky at the start of an interaction to make a joke about the other person . |
| 7 | The dominance of the CPSU appeared unassailable at the start of the 1980s , but by the end of the decade it was in serious trouble . |
| 8 | Waddell , a Professor of Tibetan at the University of London , believed that the Aryans were the bearers of culture and had originated all the main civilizations in history . |
| 9 | Lloyd George was resentful at the absence of a summons , but as he had chosen to work almost exclusively with Unionists during the preceding weeks , this resentment was hardly justified . |
| 10 | The Germans themselves , reported William Shirer , seemed glum and resentful at the prospect of war . |
| 11 | She also was looking brave at the prospect of three weeks in the summer without their regular Thursday table at the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ near his office in the City . |
| 12 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 13 | The Socialist Party , which got its economics so disastrously wrong at the start of the 1980s , has now more or less caught the point . |
| 14 | In contract or tort , for example , the first question to be asked is whether the plaintiff has suffered some legally recognized wrong at the hands of the defendant . |
| 15 | but you would be the one that got it wrong at the end of the week if you did n't |
| 16 | The birdsong , so clear at the edge of the forest , was now quiet . |
| 17 | Screams from a nearby interrogation block have been heard loud and clear at the desk of the duty sergeant at Castlereagh without causing anyone to intervene to stop the maltreatment . |
| 18 | Southend 's players flew off for a week 's break in Spain after a 2-1 win at Halifax which put them five points clear at the top of the Fourth Division . |
| 19 | West Indies ; England therefore finished well clear at the top of the table , with 11 points to West Indies ' 7 and Australia 's 6 . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Frenchman Jean-Pierre Papin scored twice as the AC Milan machine rolled mercilessly over lowly first division newcomers Ancona on Sunday , winning 2-0 to go six points clear at the top of the Italian first division . |
| 21 | Richard Dunwoody is quoted at 13–8 after a magnificent five-timer at Chepstow on Saturday put him four clear at the top of the table . |
| 22 | AC Milan stayed clear at the top of the table after beating Atalanta 2-0 in a match marred by crowd trouble . |
| 23 | The command you can see starts or switches to Word for Windows ( the USEEXIST makes the button switch to Word if it 's already open , and the IMAX sizes its window to leave the Power Launcher toolbar clear at the top of the screen , and icons clear at the bottom ) . |
| 24 | SCOTTISH striker Graham Harvey promised Linfield a debut goal — and came up trumps with a 36-minute hat-trick in the 5–2 win over Larne that keeps the Blues a point clear at the top of the table . |
| 25 | But with Clydebank losing to Morton , Airdrie have moved a point clear at the top of the table with Falkirk occupying third spot . |
| 26 | But with Clydebank losing to Morton , Airdrie have moved a point clear at the top of the table with Falkirk occupying third spot . |
| 27 | Victory for the Cherry and Whites could take them clear at the top of the Courage League , if Orrell and Leicester come unstuck . |
| 28 | Victory went to James Leckey , who led from start to finish , but Emerson 's solid second place allied to the retirement of his two main championship rivals , was enough to take the Belfast driver clear at the top of the table . |
| 29 | Llanidloes beat the rain and a determined Cound side by four wickets to move clear at the top of the table . |
| 30 | He snapped up 7–38 to send Mold crashing to 95 all out and so lift the defending champions seven points clear at the top of the table . |