Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 2 | In sharp contrast to Blauner , who argues that this ‘ objective integration ’ will lead to social integration of workers and management , Mallet argues that this objective integration has the opposite effect , leading to a new form of revolutionary consciousness that aims at the overthrow of the existing pattern of social relations in the enterprise . |
| 3 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 4 | This violent thoroughfare , with its fumes , speed and bandits at the traffic lights , is like a medieval allegory of the pathway to hell . |
| 5 | It only starts counting from the first row of an entry and stops at the last . |
| 6 | Robert James Waller Love in Black and White ( Mandarin ) A soaring love story that pulls at the heart-strings . |
| 7 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |
| 8 | Rich hauls of lead weights also come from beneath the matted seaweed that grows at the foot of harbour walls and breakwaters . |
| 9 | It was as if nothing special had happened the night before — no more than a bad dream that stays at the back of your mind long after you have woken up . |
| 10 | The girl that works at the garage , sh next door to that . |
| 11 | He comes to the bar and sits at the table there by the tree . ’ |
| 12 | The sociolinguistic approach to peer communication records naturalistic dialogue and looks at the structure of conversation in terms of maintaining discourse effectively ( Garvey , 1984 ; McTear , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Creditor management is based upon criteria supplied by the lender and looks at the credit behaviour of the individual , not just a single account . |
| 14 | The run , in aid of the NI Hospice , started at the Chimney Corner Inn and finishes at the Lansdowne Court Hotel . |
| 15 | Secondly , because the reserves in question , notes and coin and balances at the Bank of England , are liabilities of the Bank of England , then the Bank is itself the sole supplier of such reserves . |
| 16 | The 20th anniversary of the launch of charity United Response took place amid much champagne and canapés at the Imperial War Museum , hosted by its president Martyn Lewis ( he of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News fame ) . |
| 17 | Banks will thus acquire £1 billion of extra call notes and bills , but their cash or balances at the Bank of England will be reduced by £1 billion . |
| 18 | Bob , the old bum that sleeps at the bus station , just stared . |
| 19 | Not only was the advent of computing perhaps rather longer and more protracted than in some other disciplines , but invariably it is the case that the very nature of computer application in history is rather different , and it is this difference that lies at the root of the oncoming problem . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ We want an inquiry that will deal with the most important thing of all — that is an inquiry that gets at the truth . ’ |
| 21 | Cynics of course would hold that the power potential and the danger that exists at the interface of the physical and the metaphysical exists only in the human imagination . |
| 22 | If the sense of the magnetic field is irrelevant , but the same physics applies as for the first reversal , the pole that starts at the North Geographic Pole must once again pass through the Americas . |
| 23 | For us now , I think , the desolation that lies at the heart of this music needs no additional dissonance or atonalism to guarantee its creativity , and the grim joviality of ‘ King Pest ’ , in the Rondo Burlesca , is savage farce of a particularly modern ( as well as Elizabethan ) kind : compare for instance , the fiercely jaunty ‘ Out there , we 've walked quite friendly up to Death ’ in Britten 's War Requiem . |
| 24 | Uncut diamonds do not glitter and gleam like the cut and polished article that appears at the end of the process . |
| 25 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 26 | The chance has come in a review conducted by Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the body that sits at the apex of Britain 's regulatory structure . |
| 27 | Shoot the bird seed so that it moves to the right and stops at the point where Clyde started . |
| 28 | Bradford , for all the Italian wine and canapes at the mill 's art gallery , looked like a dank study by Hockney 's northern predecessor L.S.Lowry . |
| 29 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 30 | Strictly , this is what is known as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis : it protects observers who remain outside the black hole from the consequences of the breakdown of predictability that occurs at the singularity , but it does nothing at all for the poor unfortunate astronaut who falls into the hole . |