Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 2 | Moreover , the main cloud base lies at an altitude of about 48 km , which by Earth standards is a very high cloud base . |
| 3 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 4 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
| 5 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 6 | Each programme looks at an area of the Church 's teaching , through the stories of individual Catholics , while wider issues raised are discussed by Catholic Theologians and commentators . |
| 7 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 8 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 9 | One pale light shone at an upstairs window . |
| 10 | Using this relation ( µ M /µ E = cos α/2; where µ M is the electrophoretic mobility of the DNA-protein complex with the protein bound at the middle of the DNA fragment , µ E is the mobility of the complex with protein bound at an end ) we determined bending angles of 47°±5° for the ICP4 motif and 44°±5° for the Ad2 motif from several experiments using 4% gels . |
| 11 | This sensor consists of an ordinary mercury tilt switch mounted at an angle so that the small mercury bead encapsulated in the switch easily rolls on and off the contacts as the switch encounters movement . |
| 12 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 13 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 14 | Optimistically , the mayor announced at an August 1943 conference ‘ that there would be an entire elimination of smog within four months ’ ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 16 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 19 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 20 | Environmental groups criticized a decision made at an ITTC meeting in Yokohama , Japan , in November 1990 to approve the continued logging of important forests in Malaysia and the Amazon basin [ for November 1989 meeting see p. 37054 ] . |
| 21 | IN most respects a purchase made at an auction constitutes an ordinary contract for the sale of goods . |
| 22 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 23 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
| 24 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 25 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 26 | A glider pilot has suffered a broken leg in a crash landing at an R-A-F base . |
| 27 | In the illustration a man sat by a fireplace , reading a newspaper , his face obscured , the scene reflected at an angle in the mirror over the mantelpiece . |
| 28 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 29 | Its sponsor hints at an apology for the mayhem by suggesting that it 's a glitch , a temporary snag to be overcome . |
| 30 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |