Example sentences of "at [art] front " in BNC.

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1 The reader with a love of art is not always at the front of a publisher 's attention .
2 Our expensive , good-quality tunics were well cut and belted , while our ‘ guard ’ style cap , set up at the front to emulate the officer class , made us different .
3 I recall summer commenced on 1 May in Newcastle for our ‘ shirt sleeve order ’ ; meanwhile at the other end of the Northumbrian body , para. 32 of the order commands that ‘ trousers will be worn with the bottoms of the trouser legs , at the front , just touching the instep ’ .
4 The people at the front were shouting at him , the news of his message was running through the crowd like a grass fire .
5 ‘ Imagine the huge room at the front painted a sort of duck-egg blue .
6 The chair looks better to me if the seat is wider at the front than at the back , but the front of the seat should only be slightly wider than the top of the back .
7 The perforated slatting is ideal for kitchens at the front of the house ( or overlooking the garden ) as it allows privacy , conceals work areas , yet allows a view of the outside — the garden , the horizon , or just the weather !
8 Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign .
9 Now , as composers grope towards a language that satisfies audiences and yet manages to be sufficiently modern , Shostakovich 's music sounds at the front once again .
10 I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin .
11 I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head .
12 A few seconds later the pipes are assembled and I enter the town playing Highland Laddie , not at the front of the column , but bringing up the rear .
13 He just stood there , right at the front with the curtains at his back , staring into the auditorium .
14 You ca n't play , a French tourist at the front shouted .
15 The Bank men , their first-class tickets ensuring a place at the front of the queue for immigration formalities , wasted no time in getting through the airport and were quickly ferried by car along the narrow road into the city .
16 The rough sea at the front is dangerous .
17 There were only two other cars at the front and they rolled to a stop alongside the plinth on which the antique cannon stood pointing out to sea like some deep-chested mongrel .
18 I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver .
19 At the front the sledge has a semi-circle of lathed wood hinged to it .
20 Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front .
21 The cast-iron disc brakes work with four-pot calipers and it rides on 10ins rims at the front and 14ins at the rear .
22 The Corrado and Calibra share a basically similar suspension design — MacPherson struts at the front , trailing arms at the rear and driven front wheels — but you certainly would n't guess it on the road .
23 The Healey has independent suspension at the front , by coil springs , wishbones , and old-fashioned lever-arm dampers , and a non-independent live-axle at the back , with half-elliptic springs and a Panhard rod .
24 My eyes then focus directly between the top of the windscreen and the roof , and if I 'm at the front at traffic lights , I feel like Ayrton Senna would if you blindfolded him and put him on pole position .
25 The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field .
26 From the command centre , it is only the steering 's tendency to provide a slightly blurred picture of events at the front wheels that interrupts an otherwise masterful flow of information .
27 The one at the front , shouting loudest , was wearing a badge saying ‘ Stuff the Jubilee ’ .
28 When working on the scalp , start at the front of the head and move over the back , down the sides to the neck .
29 Twentieth Century-Fox musicals of the '40s were expertly wrapped lighthearted packages — just the thing to send the troops at the front — and Lynn Bari was invariably one of the prettiest ingredients .
30 There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below .
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