Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
2 | Everyone was chuckling nostalgically at the thought of the Magistrate , who was very likely dead by now . |
3 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
4 | Dynastic concord and family harmony were , however , bought somewhat at the expense of the two princes ' subjects . |
5 | This way no valuable ground is lost to windward at the end of the turn and it ‘ shuts the door ’ on any one trying to make a furtive inside rounding . |
6 | Banning unofficial action will put individual workers entirely at the mercy of unscrupulous employers who will be able to dismiss them selectively on the slightest pretext , without any right of appeal . ’ |
7 | To put the implementation entirely at the door of Mr Tomalin , who has since left Tokyo to take a key position in our head office , is nonsense . |
8 | The choice of food and the way to spend the waking hours are entirely at the discretion of the volunteer . |
9 | The timing of the elections is entirely at the discretion of interim president , Mr Matyas Szueros . |
10 | This is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
11 | The contents of the Church of Scotland ceremony and where it is to be held is entirely at the discretion of the minister . |
12 | Whether this is through the study , viewing or performance of whole plays or of selected poems or scenes should be entirely at the discretion of the teacher . |
13 | Table 1 may be used anywhere in the schedules , entirely at the discretion of the classifier . |
14 | Salary payments under the terms of this scheme will be made entirely at the discretion of the Company . |
15 | 1.1 Any order sent to the Seller by the Purchaser shall be accepted entirely at the discretion of the Seller , and , if so accepted , will only be accepted upon these conditions ( hereafter referred to as the " Conditions " ) and by means of the Seller 's standard order acknowledgement form . |
16 | It 's entirely at the discretion of each state how they organize their own governmental affairs . |
17 | This change took place almost entirely at the expense of ‘ sole principal ’ practices . |
18 | Even her brothers were kind , though embarrassed and Clara , as she sat there picking endlessly at the fringe of the tablecloth , had a vision of some other world where violent emotion could be a thing of beauty , where even tears could be admitted and not ignored , where good taste in tomb stones consisted not in cheap restrained economy of design , fabric , and word , but of marble angels wildly grieving . |
19 | Stalin and Molotov suddenly at a meeting of the Council of Commissars … proposed that the control figures of the plan be increased twofold … in June 1930 , Stalin suddenly announced sharp increases in the goals — for pig iron , from 10 million to 17 million tons by the last year of the plan ; for tractors , from 55,000 to 170,000 ; for other agricultural machinery and trucks , an increase of more than 100 per cent . |
20 | Even Nutty could see what an apathetic beast he was , and her heart contracted suddenly at the thought of their four stupid old horses going back to the knacker 's . |
21 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
22 | Ushered in at last , passing through a spotless surgery agleam with modern equipment , and offered seats in an equally efficient-looking office , Sophie 's heart jerked suddenly at the sight of the man who was holding out his hand . |
23 | Keeping the noisy engine as muted as possible , Yanto negotiated the dirt path until it terminated suddenly at the base of the sea wall . |
24 | He had used new tactics against the Moors , riding out suddenly at the head of a force of heavily armoured and mounted knights . |
25 | Maxim grinned suddenly at the idea of dragging George openly into this . |
26 | He succeeds Fr Jim Franks SVD who died suddenly at the end of March . |
27 | The Nile appeared quite suddenly at the end of a street , blue and shining between the tall houses . |
28 | It used to be a tremendous transition from 1 April when you realised you would n't have the garden to yourself until quite suddenly at the end of October when everybody goes . |
29 | there it was , suddenly at the end of the road , Monkey Island . |
30 | Suddenly at the height of the battle this purple and now orange mushroom bursts across the entire screen , devouring both armies in its path . |