Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One dress was called ‘ Dying Embers ’ after a lady at a fancy dress party who 'd claimed she was dressed as dying embers — and if someone did n't poke her soon she was going home ! |
| 2 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 3 | Three people died and fourteen were injured after an explosion at a chemical works in West Yorkshire . |
| 4 | It 's known that the Migs approached each other coming out of a loop at a combined speed of about 300 miles per hour , in an area to the north east of the main spectator section at Fairford . |
| 5 | We can substitute this expression directly into the ideal gas equation ( 4 ) to obtain Thus , if we know the mass and volume of a gas at a given temperature and pressure , we can calculate the molar mass , M. Since we can obtain directly . |
| 6 | Alison 's denial was so forceful it attracted the attention of a couple at a neighbouring table . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , miss ? ’ he demanded pugnaciously , reminding her of a sentry at a besieged garrison . |
| 8 | Playing of a Monday at an odd hour can break their rhythm . |
| 9 | The rate equation is a statement relating the rate of a reaction at a fixed temperature to the concentration of the reacting species by means of a rate constant and indices known as the where k = rate constant for a particular temperature m = order of the reaction w.r.t . |
| 10 | A pictorial representation of the age-sex structure of a population at a particular time is provided by an age-sex profile or population pyramid . |
| 11 | Researchers of medieval settlements would do well , perhaps , to regard their scanty documentary references — often only the name and owner of a site at a particular date — in the same way that the Romanist looks at his sherds and the prehistorian his flint scatters . |
| 12 | As a result the educational psychologist had been investigating the possibility of a place at a local special school for Balbinder . |
| 13 | This phenomenon may be defined as the temporary cessation in development of a nematode at a precise point in its parasitic development . |
| 14 | On the other hand , a photograph can not be generalized or simplified to bring out the important diagnostic features of a species ; it must be always of an individual at a particular time and place . |
| 15 | She looked like a worker at a nuclear power station . |
| 16 | GUIL : Now mind your tongue , or we 'll have it out and throw the rest of you away , like a nightingale at a Roman feast . |
| 17 | ROS : Like a nightingale at a Roman feast . |
| 18 | He spoke nicely , like a comrade at a tricky moment . |
| 19 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 20 | Chief Supervisor Liz Perera has everything running smoothly , like a housekeeper at a stately home , taking a medley of jobs from choosing the colour schemes for special functions to calling in the plumber if the dishwasher fails in her stride . |
| 21 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 22 | Flexible response was defined as the use of force against an attacker at an appropriate level on an escalating scale , starting with conventional arms and with strategic nuclear forces as weapons of last resort . |
| 23 | However , during a break in filming The Big Sleep I did join him and Robert Mitchum for a drink at a nearby pub . |
| 24 | PRINCESS Di had a simply splashing time yesterday when she joined Charles and the young princes for a swim at a Greek island paradise . |
| 25 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 26 | She had taken supply teaching for a term at a nearby school and moved here to this school as a replacement teacher for the remainder of the year . |
| 27 | This new exhibition brought John Piper 's work to his home county just this month … but what began as a look at a private collection has now become a timely retrospective . |
| 28 | This new exhibition brought John Piper 's work to his home county just this month … but what began as a look at a private collection has now become a timely retrospective . |
| 29 | A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development . |
| 30 | The policy of the defendant was to fix rents for the houses as a whole at an aggregate sum necessary to balance the cost of the loan capital and repairs ; there was no differential applied whereby tenants paid rent according to their means . |