Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pulse beats at the top of her long , white neck , under her chin . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 3 | The Duchess of Kent , as Patron of the Royal Northern College of Music , presides at the launch of their Appeal ; opens Phase of the Manchester Science Park ; and attends the South Manchester Health Authority 's Annual Nurse Prize Giving Ceremony . |
| 4 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 5 | Whilst guidance on suitable mechanisms for multidisciplinary collaboration has at the level of planning been published , the use of mechanisms to co-ordinate information and assessment at the level of practice has been actively discouraged . |
| 6 | From the pre-crisis level of DM2.83 = £1 and US$2 = £1 , the pound has at the date of writing declined by some 14% against the DM ( or 17.5% below its central rate of 2.95 ) , a similar amount against the US$ , and 12% against its trade-weighted index . |
| 7 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 8 | SCENE : The Dining-Room — Eight Months Later Pa stands at the head of the table . |
| 9 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 10 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 11 | The village stands at the terminus of the great trench occupied by the inland Loch Maree , the river forming a link . |
| 12 | Here the now extensive Lightpill Mill site stands at the confluence of the Nailsworth Stream with a smaller one that runs down from Rodborough Hill . |
| 13 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 16 | The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales . |
| 17 | which stands at the edge of a demolition site . |
| 18 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin stands at the edge of a relatively small , distinctive subset of irreverent fabliaux , fabliaux which powerfully exploit the inherent realism of the genre by reducing the characters and setting of the Christian heaven to a comically mundane and very human level : Heaven and Hell become just two alternatives amongst the familiar loci of the fabliaux . |
| 20 | This is not to say that the world dictates the pattern for the Church to adopt , but to point out that the Church must be constantly examining itself to ensure that it is remaining true to the gospel and that the only barrier is the inescapable offence of the atoning message of the cross which stands at the centre of that gospel . |
| 21 | It is the majestic rise of the working-class movement which , for Soviet historians , stands at the centre of the pre-war stage . |
| 22 | The Bank of England stands at the centre of the UK financial system . |
| 23 | As this new world takes shape , America stands at the centre of a widening circle of freedom — today , tomorrow and into the next century … |
| 24 | Angelica Venetz stands at the rail of the restaurant 's terrace . |
| 25 | It stands at the crest of the hill , which falls away to Queen Mary Boulevard , North Montreal and Saint-Hubert . |
| 26 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that it [ JAH-BUL-ON ] stands at the pinnacle of Craft Freemasonry makes it well nigh impossible to change . |
| 28 | If someone stands at the front of the play , at the front of the stage and says , you know , I believe in democracy , then you know you are let into a political play , yeah . |
| 29 | The landlord of the Fox and Hounds in Cotherstone , which stands at the entrance of Baldersdale and was to become the front line headquarters for the film makers , scoffed at this idea . |
| 30 | It stands at the culmination of a sequence of recent monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists , Ansaldo , Castiglione , Fiasella , and it has benefited from the explosion of scholarly interest within the city , much of the fruit of which has been published by Sagep Editrice . |