Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 2 | Many black teachers hardly fare better at the hands of their white colleagues , often finding themselves the butt of racist jokes , hostile remarks and isolation in the staff room . |
| 3 | According to Presswatch , Scottish companies fared better at the hands of the London press than their English counterparts , with an average score of 198 among the 27 companies monitored . |
| 4 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 5 | " Eyes front ! " he screamed suddenly at the men before us. " 'eft 'ight , 'eft 'ight ! " |
| 6 | He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition . |
| 7 | Gilberto Nieddu spat thoughtfully at the pigeons on the roof below . |
| 8 | It looked afresh at the elements in the established balance between the CNAA and its institutions , retaining standards at the centre of debate , defining a continuing role for the CNAA , justifying and describing the process towards greater institutional autonomy , conceding the need to take account of different stages of development , and looking towards possible implications for the whole of higher education . |
| 9 | Is it not time to look afresh at the foundations of our laws in relation to mental illness with a view to making the central focus that of providing a framework whereby those whose judgment is so impaired by their illness that they are unable to recognise the need for treatment will receive such treatment in as humane , sensitive and effective a way as possible . |
| 10 | Furthermore , comparable errors in the execution of these triangles are visible , e.g. the occasional crowding and skewing of motif , especially at the corners of a panel . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this is an excellent , aggressive account of the Allegro , albeit with a little too much from the timpanist , especially at the ends of rolls where he insists on drawing attention to himself . |
| 12 | Best played as a team game with the class , especially at the ends of days , weeks or terms . |
| 13 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 14 | These values should be entered in the sequence below at the references to ‘ server ’ and ‘ port ’ . |
| 15 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 16 | South America , on the other hand , has suffered greatly at the hands of the cattle ranchers . |
| 17 | But I wanted to feel my spine tickle and my pulses beat , and my hair stir gently at the roots with suspense as that voice cried out from somewhere near our drawing room curtains . |
| 18 | I slapped gently at the sides of her face , without much success , while Miss Hinkle produced a glass of water . |
| 19 | She looked pointedly at the stairs behind him , and he gave her a thorough scrutiny , as though trying to work out exactly what was on her mind . |
| 20 | John Thicknesse 's 13 pages trace cricket 's sad decline , laying the blame not only at the feet of grasping humourless players but weak umpires too . |
| 21 | When you turn over the pages of the Supplement , pay no attention at first to the volume numbers at the top left-hand corner of the pages ; look only at the headings at the top right-hand corner , which are in alphabetical order . |
| 22 | In the south-west , Professor Branig can detect changes only at the villas at Chew Park , Whateley and Star ; a significant change is apparent from recent excavations at Littlecote ( Wilts. ) with a new building of architectural interest c . |
| 23 | If Earth Children lobby and demonstrate ; if they pray only at the tabernacles of the worthy , they will propel the high priests of consumerism towards Earth sustainability . |
| 24 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 25 | It should look not only at the responsibilities of Government , but at the contributions that others make : business , local authorities , NGOs and members of the public alike . |
| 26 | We can point to Milton being retained as an approved poet of high literary culture during the next century when other dissenting writing of Milton 's age circulated among groups increasingly only at the margins of political life . |
| 27 | In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself . |
| 28 | This suggests that it is not only at the levels of syntactic and semantic analysis that language processing is interactive . |
| 29 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 30 | erm you know never mind that most children who are beaten or abused or die at their , the hands of their parents er you know , do so at the hands of their heterosexual parents |