Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 2 | Such arrangements were mutually beneficial , although there was always a tendency for the Communist influence to increase at the expense of other less cohesive groups . |
| 3 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 4 | Hari felt a rush of disappointment , she had expected Lewis to jump at the chance of earning some money but it seemed he was reluctant to take her venture seriously . |
| 5 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 6 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 7 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 8 | The three brothers had agreed to meet at the beginning of October , at Metz , where their father was buried . |
| 9 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 10 | The Committee for the Preservation of Morals was to meet at the house of Mrs Murphy , the wife of the Mayor . |
| 11 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 13 | Indeed , he brings his own delicately poised irony to bear at the end of his book when he writes , |
| 14 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 15 | To dine at the court of flattery ? |
| 16 | Working five-year-old children to death in their mines and mills and breeding their own daughters to swoon at the sight of an injured sparrow . |
| 17 | Nor did she manage to swoon at the sound of Elvis 's voice or at the mention of Big Bopper . |
| 18 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 19 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 20 | It may be difficult or impossible to establish at the date of the sale the value of the pension rights to be transferred . |
| 21 | It is important to establish at the beginning of a drama lesson/ project whether magic is to be allowed or not . |
| 22 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 23 | In this , the scene is divided into three sections both horizontally and vertically , and the idea is to line up the shot so that the main features are made to come at the intersections of the imaginary dividing lines . |
| 24 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 25 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 26 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 27 | What kind of formal marks , if any , would we expect to find at the beginning of a new paragraph ? |
| 28 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 29 | ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’ |
| 30 | Now , being left-handed I 'm well used to the pitfalls : reading reviews of great-looking and top quality guitars only to find at the end of the review , ‘ No left-handers available ’ or , more niggling , ‘ 10% extra ’ . |