Example sentences of "at the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The worst fear is that temperatures will rise most dramatically a t the poles , with a very real possibility that the huge ice caps at the North and South Poles wills tart breaking up and melting . |
| 32 | Even though the universe would have zero size at the North and South Poles , these points would not be singularities , any more than the North and South Poles on the earth are singular . |
| 33 | The laws of science will hold at them , just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth . |
| 34 | I always remember your joke at the North and South Club when you told the Jamaican guy those things that he got mad at you that you did n't have a black belt but you had a yellow streak at Origami ! |
| 35 | ‘ We did not say you have got to come to Darlington or Newcastle of Teesside , we said look at the North and here is the help that you can get . ’ |
| 36 | a statement automatically produced by the breath analysis machine by which the proportion of alcohol in the breath specimen was measured and certificate signed by a constable that the statement relates to a specimen provided by the accused at the date and time shown in the statement , and |
| 37 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 38 | ‘ We are surprised at the decision and we fear the effect it could have on the battle against doping . |
| 39 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 40 | I looked at the wife and she died of fright . |
| 41 | The Palestinians eventually boycotted the meeting in protest at the US and Russian decision to abide by the so-called " Madrid formula " which stipulated that the Palestinian delegation would include no PLO members , no East Jerusalem Palestinians and no Palestinians from the diaspora outside the occupied territories . |
| 42 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 43 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 44 | This is essential if the scientific quality of studies of biodiversity at the ecosystem and genetic level is not to be compromised . |
| 45 | She felt there would be too many families at the seaside and not enough single men . |
| 46 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 47 | In succeeding years of wartime the annual conference continued to take place , though not at the seaside and not usually for a full week . |
| 48 | Holidays at the seaside or in the mountains were by now out of the question , but for young people it was still a wonderful summer : the war seemed far away , and there was enough to eat even if it was rationed . |
| 49 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 50 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 51 | Then followed a mad rush out to the instruments , a frantic look at the sky and the visibility , a quick scribbling on a pad to write out the message , and a scramble into the teleprinter room to tap it out . |
| 52 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 53 | The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly . |
| 54 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 55 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 56 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 57 | The mountain peaks and ridges clawed at the sky and Maggie stopped thinking altogether . |
| 58 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 59 | He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him . |
| 60 | I looked up at the sky and made a fist with the other hand , beating it into the ground . |