Example sentences of "at the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 2 | Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link . |
| 3 | At the opposite extreme , an English philosopher has tamed it to a position of common-sense moderation : |
| 4 | This personal stamp is partly created by the unique range of Burrows ’ influences — British folk dance from his training at the Royal Ballet School , ballet itself , and at the opposite extreme the minimal , unburnished style of Rosemary Butcher , with whom he has performed several times . |
| 5 | At the opposite extreme , Australia and New Zealand wanted an international authority to operate the main trunk routes and aircraft , one moreover that would become an agency of the proposed United Nations . |
| 6 | This also meant that at the opposite pole of this evolutionary sequence there had existed a stage which was the exact opposite , a stage when men or women paired freely with whoever they took a fancy to , irrespective of any rules or regulations . |
| 7 | But it was at Gainsborough Studios , where production head Maurice Ostrer believed in making films that offered the audience ‘ good themes and good laughs ’ that filmmakers produced the most distinctive melodramas of this period , entertainments created at the opposite extreme to the realist dramas . |
| 8 | Against this view of love as contract , Cave , in The Birthday Party , was almost alone in reinvoking love as malady , monologue , abject dependence , whose ultimate expression could only be violence : the recurrent theme of girl-murder , or at the opposite pole the paroxysm of desire in ‘ Zoo Music Girl ’ , ‘ Oh ! |
| 9 | This is a recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and music and is characterized by a certain daintiness of treatment which bears a feminine relation to the masculine ruggedness of the hall … at the opposite end is the ‘ refectory' ’ … . |
| 10 | At the opposite extreme , paupers ' graves had long been unmarked ; but in between , death had been the metaphorical leveller . |
| 11 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 12 | At the opposite end of the spectrum there are elderly people for whom death can become an all too familiar experience as their family and friends of the same age gradually die , leaving them more and more isolated . |
| 13 | As Bishop Edward King , at the opposite end of the English religious spectrum from Nonconformists , noted , ‘ We live in an age of decoration … |
| 14 | Kevin McAllister 's header from a right-wing McGivern cross gave Marshall problems , while at the opposite end Creaney took advantage of a huge kick-out which bounced over John Hughes , to send a lob inches over . |
| 15 | Indie rock is the traditional playground of scruffy teenagers approaching college age who prefer to celebrate gazing at the stars than admit to peeking at the opposite sex . |
| 16 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , there were problems also in the definition of specialization . |
| 17 | There are plenty of bars and cafes , many of them featuring live music , or at the opposite end of the scale operetta ! |
| 18 | At the opposite end of the scale from the phylum is the smallest unit of classification usually used for fossils : the species . |
| 19 | The vessel can be transferred when the portcullis gate on the tank ( the one at the opposite end to the one used on the upper transfer ) has been lifted . |
| 20 | Robyn took a seat at the opposite end of the table from Wilcox . |
| 21 | ‘ The doctrine of naturalism ’ , on the other hand , ‘ is situated at the opposite pole . ’ |
| 22 | Our second tour begins nearly at the opposite pole , with Jan Mayen , a small , ice-gripped island in the Arctic Ocean , roughly half-way between Greenland and Arctic Norway . |
| 23 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 24 | Noreen looked to her but Carmella rose at once and followed out after Mick and Joey at the opposite side . |
| 25 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 26 | At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult . |
| 27 | At the opposite end of the scale is a bite that is very difficult to detect if you are not conversant with the art of touch-legering ( see pages 14–17 ) . |
| 28 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 29 | A second group is at the opposite extreme of breakage , with no mandibles intact , and this includes the mammalian carnivores , the little owl and most of the diurnal raptors not included in the main analysis ( not included because the damage is so great that hardly any recognizable bone is left in the pellets : see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 30 | A kitchen is positioned at the opposite end of the dining saloon . |