Example sentences of "at the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was vicar of Sawston and rector of nearby Whittlesford from 1647 to 1670 , with an apparent break at the former in 1662–4 and the latter in 1659–62 ; they were both poor livings , valued at £20 and £23 p.a. respectively in 1650 . |
| 2 | Under such treaties , UK investors will pay income tax on , say , foreign share dividends at the higher of the investor 's marginal income tax rates in the UK and the country in which the investment is held . |
| 3 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 4 | EXCEPT at the highest of America 's ski resorts , the lifts have stopped and the instructors have moved on to Argentina or New Zealand . |
| 5 | He was still level par for the round after leaving the 12th green but then had his second successive eagle at the 13th with a five-iron to 15 feet . |
| 6 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 7 | He took the finest of lines round the trees at the 13th before hitting the green with a perfectly struck long iron for his four and then was in luck at the 14th . |
| 8 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 9 | Borings made at the deepest of the present pits have failed to find any bottom to the deposit . |
| 10 | Let's look at the five in turn and see how they apply to you and what you can do to counteract any harmful effects they may be having on your life . |
| 11 | Entertainment offered at local cinemas included Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter in ‘ Daddy Long-Legs ’ at the Palace , Farnham , and Ralph Lynn and Winifred Shotter in ‘ The Chance of a Night-time ’ at the Regal in Haslemere . |
| 12 | In the special election to complete Heinz 's term , his platform had emphasized the need to switch from social programmes aimed at the poor to programmes offering something to average non-affluent US citizens , especially on health care ; to cut middle class taxes ; to boost unemployment benefits ; and to protect jobs from low-wage Mexico 's competition ( a reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement currently in the final stages of negotiation ) . |
| 13 | At the greatest of the Roman baths , like those of Caracalla , a large central concourse led out to the various facilities . |
| 14 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | That the question is not an idle one can be seen if one looks a little more closely at the second of our two examples . |
| 16 | There 's another patrol car at the turn-off to Strathspeld . |
| 17 | WITH the count-down to the US Masters at Augusta having begun , maybe no single shot on the European Tour this year will have interested the Scottish golfing fraternity more than Colin Montgomerie 's drive at the 72nd in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Singapore . |
| 18 | Gidon Kremer 's first Teldec recording is the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Stefaniensaal in July . |
| 19 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 20 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 21 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 22 | The shock reformation followed an earlier treat for the capacity crowd at the first of eight shows celebrating 40 years of NME and benefiting the Spastics Society , when a ‘ rumpled ’ Shane MacGowan joined Cave onstage for a duet on Louis Armstrong 's ‘ Wonderful World ’ . |
| 23 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 24 | At the first of these , Nikolai Gubyenko presided at a banquet for ex-colleagues from his former Ministry and the actors who at present occupy the building . |
| 25 | At the first of these , according to Henry Sherek , he announced to the actors ( among whom were Alec Guinness and Irene Worth ) , " I will now read the play to you to show how I want my lines spoken " : as a poet , he did not want his own " voice " to be lost . |
| 26 | At the first of the smaller channels she turned and began to ease herself down the shallow bank , grunting , her face set against the pain she was causing herself . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , ’ said Donna , pointing at the first of the fuzzy figures . |
| 28 | The McCaw wit is as sharp as his memory and , to nobody 's surprise , George was asked to say a few words at the first of many parties to mark Lurgan 's Centenary . |
| 29 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 30 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |