Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolation of those at the foot of the pyramid of authority , the Panopticon principle , was central to maintaining the image of the force on the street . |
| 2 | The impressive bulk of 762 at the Pleasure Beach , showing its new bogies which were prototypes for those on the new Centenary class . |
| 3 | Then they withdrew , leaving the task force of four at the foot of the ditch of Famagusta . |
| 4 | But this is a result of those at the top of the hierarchy maintaining their status amongst their subordinates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 7 | d , In RA-treated embryos labelled with an injection of DiI at the exit point in r2 , the cell bodies of the efferent axons in r3 have the characteristics of the facial nerve ( in the normal r5 ) in that they are located along the lateral border of the floor plate and initially have a direct rostral trajectory ( large arrow ) . |
| 8 | Celtic scholar and top tax authority Professor Donald Meek , head of the department of Celtic at the University of Aberdeen , pays tribute to Dr Victor E Durkacz , who has died aged 40 |
| 9 | From 1914 to 1919 he was lecturer in the department of Welsh at the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth . |
| 10 | Such visions can be utilised at all levels within an organisation and are not the sole prerogative of those at the top . |
| 11 | Cycle triumph : The bicycle voted Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair has taken its place at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , Cultra , alongside some of its illustrious predecessors . |
| 12 | Raleigh 's Activator Two , the first mass-produced bicycle with full front and rear suspension for better handling and greater control , which is now on show in the museum , was voted the Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair . |
| 13 | This encompasses government imperatives as well as the management systems of the LEA and the school — it ensures that any clear sense of accountability , on the part of those at the ‘ production base ’ is improbable . |
| 14 | Mr McKay had a majority of 14,191 at the 1987 election . |
| 15 | And the most productive had fewer managers and six times the training component of those at the bottom of the league . |
| 16 | Over the post decade , tax welfare has played an increasingly important part in boosting the living standards of the rich , while welfare cuts have reduced the income of those at the bottom of the pile . |
| 17 | In the main , most hotels seem happy to let their concierges work the system to their advantage , providing their more entrepreneurial traits do not get the better of them , as they did in the case of those at the Heathrow Penta . |
| 18 | Functionalists fail to acknowledge that social institutions do not operate ‘ magically ’ in the interests of all but frequently work to the benefit of some at the expense of others . |
| 19 | I 'd have been very happy playing an old lady of ninety at the age of fifteen . |
| 20 | I was only a boy of ten at the time , but it left its mark on me too . |
| 21 | The social origin of those at the ‘ summit ’ of the state apparatus is that of the ruling class . |
| 22 | THREE Ulster boxers have been named to represent Ireland in a team of six at the European Junior boxing championships in Greece starting on September 25 . |
| 23 | You know you sort of er get I think yes I th I think you were sort of better at the job the mo the more practise you got , and the more you did it . |
| 24 | It might , you might be tempted to walk along the embankment a little further and , and look along the bridge , and er , sort of straight at the tower . |
| 25 | Edmund arrives to find Emily 's cat has got at the lobsters and broken her beautiful china ; and in a moment of quiet at the end of his visit a boring neighbour ( well known to him from the letters ) makes her way in — and alas , like most bores who are funny in letters , she is not so in real life . |
| 26 | If professorial patronage was , in general , a perquisite of those at the centre of political power in Scotland , there was another , though much less valuable , form of academic patronage available to some of the politicians . |
| 27 | If a net 1,400-1,500 underwriting members leave the market , Lloyd 's total membership will be reduced from its record high point of 33,532 at the beginning of last year to just over 30,000 . |
| 28 | People in the top band in Wales will pay only three times the council tax of those at the bottom , although the value of their property is more than eight times greater . |
| 29 | The small town that had a dozen mills and a population of 10,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century had grown by 1890 to a place of 130,000 people and 265 mills , and was called ‘ the greatest cotton-spinning town in the world ’ . |
| 30 | LIMA — Peru is to propose the expulsion of Panama from the so-called group of Eight at the third summit of Latin American presidents beginning today because of the refusal of its military dictator , General Antonio Noriega , to institute democracy , writes Simon Strong . |