Example sentences of "by the [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the Croats , throwing down their arms in their bivouac areas , had commenced moving down the main road in a dense mass , urged on by the Partisans at the back who were discharging arms in all directions . |
| 2 | They were soon copied by the French , who developed formations of this kind on a large scale from the 1760s onwards , while light infantry were used for the first time in Europe by the Russians at the siege of Kolberg in 1761 . |
| 3 | The action was brought by the respondents against the appellants to recover the sum of £2,200 11s. 10d. for the services of police specially supplied by the respondents at the request of and by agreement with the appellants . |
| 4 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 5 | If the interest is not ‘ outrageous ’ the security is pretty good , for there is a guarantee that if the Club did fail the land acquired will be re-purchased by the vendors at the original sale price . |
| 6 | Before she was even elected to serve the people of this estate , Coun Ms Buttle was already threatening industrial action by the buses at the first public meeting we attended a year ago . |
| 7 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 8 | Ordered , That , in respect of the Welsh Development Agency Bill , notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 9 | That , in respect of the Stamp Duty ( Temporary Provisions ) Bill , Notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 10 | Ordered , That , in respect of the Social Security ( Mortgage Interest Payments ) Bill , notices of Amendments , new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time . |
| 11 | Leaving behind wounded legend Lester Piggott , the British retreated with heads hung low after the 7–0 hammering by the Americans at the $10 million Breeders ' Cup world championships . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 13 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
| 14 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 15 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |
| 16 | In addition , a £100 prize is being offered for the best photographs taken of these two events to be judged by the experts at the Museum . |
| 17 | That was legislation was put through by the Liberals at the time , would it be ? |
| 18 | If Lord 's has any thoughts for the anxiety felt by the families at the thought of England 's players running a gauntlet of violence for 11 weeks the tour should be called of . |
| 19 | ( c ) Features provided by the instructions at the architectural level . |
| 20 | Full academic robes will be worn by the students at the Higher Awards Ceremony which will be held in the college hall in Cleveland Avenue tomorrow . |
| 21 | Specifically- one strong hypothesis is that of Fama and Jensen : Organisations compete for survival , and the form of organisation that survives in an activity is the one that delivers the product demanded by the customers at the lowest price while covering costs ' ( 1983 , p. 345 ) — a Darwinian view . |
| 22 | They were real grown-up long trousers exactly like those worn by the boys at the big school . |
| 23 | On a more personal note , life in Cambridge has been made wonderful fun by the grads at the unit , Mark Coulson and all at Clare Hall , particularly the boys from Stiffy and The FT . |
| 24 | A supply aircraft , carrying weapons to the contras , was shot down by the Sandinistas at the beginning of October 1986 ; and on November 3rd a Lebanese magazine , Al-Shiraa , broke the story of American dealings with Iran . |
| 25 | Both those obstacles had been foreseen by the anti-Keynesians at the Treasury thirty years before . |
| 26 | For a while Corbett and the apothecary discussed gossip of mutual interest , acquaintances at Westminster , at the court , as well as the scandal of a certain physician now being investigated by the authorities at the Guildhall . |
| 27 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 28 | The report was welcomed by the authorities at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness , who said it was consistent with their view that radioactive emissions were far too low to cause any problems . |
| 29 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 30 | They were boys of fifteen or sixteen and they were watching her keenly from a position by the railings at the far corner of the church . |