Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top might be a porcelain book open at a bit of holy text , plus a photograph , or a porcelain cluster of pink and red roses with sharp frilled edges . |
| 2 | Pitcher pooh-poohs the notion of a stock market listing at a time when so many entrepreneurs are taking their companies private once more . |
| 3 | A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17 , severely injuring one person . |
| 4 | A methane/air explosion occurred at a water pumping station . |
| 5 | The second is ‘ Le chien Barbet ’ by Chardin , sold by Tajan in 1988 and depicting a hunting dog sniffing at a hare and duck hanging from an urn . |
| 6 | A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed . |
| 7 | A lecture audience looking at a slide projection , incidentally , may also suffer from seeing distorted colours , though art museums take some care to sell transparencies of a satisfactory quality . |
| 8 | A water temperature held at a steady 70° F. |
| 9 | THE children 's leukaemia clinic at Middlesbrough General Hospital will benefit from a charity event held at a town centre nightclub this week . |
| 10 | An inquest jury has returned an open verdict on the death of a baby girl killed at a playgroup . |
| 11 | The application of the wife of a politburo member to study at a research institute would never have been easy to reject . |
| 12 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 13 | The one-act play began in Pearson 's office , with Ken — a funny little gnome-like figure — up a library ladder looking at a book , while Pearson walks in holding his briefcase and bowler hat , humming Ravel 's Bolero . |
| 14 | A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 16 | Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds . |
| 17 | This is Anne Loye receiving the First Prize in a Fitness competition held at a Butlin 's Holiday Camp . |
| 18 | He was wearing an elderly white linen jacket and a blue spotted bow-tie , so that , given a boater hat set at a jaunty angle , he might indeed have looked like the late Max Beerbohm . |