Example sentences of "at the back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst AIDS was not well included as an issue in the campaign , it was clearly at the back of every civil servant 's mind as the details of the Clause were worked out . |
| 2 | At the back of every cabinet member 's mind is the question how much , before he was prime minister , Mr Major himself knew . |
| 3 | Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself . |
| 4 | He always put a very tiny pencil mark on the end papers at the back of every book he read , his very own secret sign . |
| 5 | Given its height and vigour , L. serotina is probably best accommodated at the back of a herbaceous border or in the wild garden if you are lucky enough to have such a place . |
| 6 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 7 | Omi not being of the school which sits as far at the back of a church as possible , Erika found herself under the nose of the Minister , who beamed upon her , and surrounded by family groups : parents , grandparents and children who made an agreeable din until a small group of musicians struck up the opening bars of the first hymn . |
| 8 | At the back of a huge lorry , free samples of Bahlsen biscuits are being dispensed . |
| 9 | From a swift glance at the back of a person 's head I can at once estimate the intelligence and sexuality of that person . |
| 10 | From scrambled possession at the back of a line-out by Winterbottom , an industrious leader , Pears jinked left and right , adding a couple of half-dummies for good measure . |
| 11 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 12 | The pin was on the right at the back of a bunker and I decided on the 7-iron . |
| 13 | He kept rubbing his cheek against mine , and so I was thankful when his mother stopped her trolley at the back of a bright red Mercedes . |
| 14 | And in a carrier bag , cunningly at the back of a cupboard , a bumper harvest of old newspapers . |
| 15 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 16 | at the back of a paper-lined drawer , |
| 17 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 18 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , maybe there 's something at the back of a cupboard somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Stuffed at the back of a drawer . |
| 21 | Borders at the edge of the garden are usually fairly narrow ; fences and walls at the back of a border may need thinking about . |
| 22 | Whether you will be able to do the job in a vacant spot in the vegetable plot , at the back of a border or wherever , a suitable area has to be earmarked and reserved so that it can be empty and vacant from the second half of September on . |
| 23 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 24 | Thus , they are sometimes situated at the front of the Segment , between the acrotergite and prescutum and sometimes at the back of a segment , behind the postnotum . |
| 25 | If you sit at the back of a lecture hall , you 'll get less out of it than if you sit up front . |
| 26 | It reminded her of the trunking at the back of a starship 's central processor banks ; and of the tubing inside a tissue regrowth cabinet . |
| 27 | Sit at the back of a bluegrass concert in 80 of Kentucky 's 121 counties , and you will drink nothing more alcoholic than a tall glass of orange juice . |
| 28 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 29 | The football ground was at the back of a churchyard in the suburbs . |
| 30 | The stables were at the back of a courtyard and there was a crowd outside the door . |