Example sentences of "at [art] [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 2 | Smaller , but still impressive , calderas are to be found at the summits of strato-volcanoes . |
| 3 | The surface was grooved with the tumult of adversarial currents , the turbid water lapping high at the trunks of willows and alders on the banks . |
| 4 | He found their steady , rhythmic progress an aid to concentration and the oddly oblique views of the world they offered — weed-choked farmland at the feet of embankments , gnome-dotted gardens on the edges of towns — ran somehow parallel with his own . |
| 5 | But at the foundations of buildings , the clay amplified it to more than 20 per cent of gravity . |
| 6 | The Wizard King could sneer at the games of mortals . |
| 7 | The mud-flats at the mouths of rivers , dumped as silt when the river meets the sea , tend to accumulate minerals and organic materials . |
| 8 | In the modern world , we looked at the findings of psychologists , with all their promises of self-knowledge — or at least , self-analysis . |
| 9 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 10 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 11 | In the past , testing was directed at proteins made by cells or at the structures of cells . |
| 12 | Like all ages , the late Middle Ages had its critics who took swipes at the activities of soldiers . |
| 13 | to do it and I think even , looking at the competencies of careers officers you 'd probably be able to pick out broad headings . |
| 14 | This chapter looks at the efforts of philanthropists and defenders of women 's rights to expand the range of employment for both working-class and middle-class girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 15 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 16 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 17 | It is thought that similar but even larger black holes , with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun , occur at the centers of quasars . |
| 18 | We 're going to be looking at the contrast between that and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town , erm and so on . |
| 19 | We 're going to be looking at erm the contrast between and places like Rye , which did have a chartered corporation , and we 're going to be looking at sort of trade , at the effects of epidemics on the town erm and so on . |
| 20 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 21 | One , which could be seen as a little circular , is to look at the brains of mammals alive today and determine what they have in common . |
| 22 | A glance at the percentages of synonyms shows that even when the file is only 20 per cent packed , almost 10 per cent of the file will be stored as synonyms . |
| 23 | Arrows occur at the corners of polygons and tend to make the sides seem concave . |
| 24 | Mitres are folded at the corners of hems to distribute the bulk of fabric evenly and neatly . |
| 25 | Women stood at the corners of buildings , dressed in wide , bright dresses and adorned with garish make-up . |
| 26 | This chapter looks at the perceptions of parents of their role in the assessment of their child 's special educational needs as part of the Statementing process carried out under the 1981 Education Act . |
| 27 | But , like Machiavelli , they are forever tugging at the sleeves of politicians . |
| 28 | Looking at the experiences of mothers in these households provides an insight into what life is like at the sharper end of economic and social change in Britain . |
| 29 | To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education . |
| 30 | Look at the prices of things ! |