Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pie chart can help the retailer or business-person see at a glance exactly where the money goes . |
| 2 | To be eligible an enterprise should be registered in an EC member country and have a product or process aimed at a transnational market . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 4 | The category of ‘ further academic study ’ is a relatively broad one , comprising all full-time further education or training aimed at a higher or other degree at home or overseas . |
| 5 | The answer is that it is simply the degree of an experience 's pleasantness or painfulness taken at a moment , or its average pleasantness or painfulness over a period . |
| 6 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 7 | There is spiritual value in the very handling of its primary elements to write a little song or dance , even an exercise ; even , as Bruckner used to show his classes , in a fifth or octave struck at a piano . |
| 8 | Cattle and sheep move at a leisurely pace over the earthworks that mark where men once lived and worked . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the remaining males carried on displaying wildly — Fitz and Rousseau remaining at a distance , and only Kendo daring to charge right over the scrum — all to no avail . |
| 10 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 11 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 12 | Drugs charities and authorities met at a conference this week to try and speed up assessments , with a proposal for other agencies to be vetted for carrying them out . |
| 13 | This service provides delivery by a Post Office messenger for letters and packets arriving at a delivery office on the next working day after posting but too late for normal delivery on that day . |
| 14 | To confuse the issue even more , at least from Catt 's point of view , her letter from Gedge , Solowka and Gregory arrived at a time when she thought that her role in the group was about to become more prominent . |
| 15 | An early train from Minya left us at Roda , a country station where old taxis and barouches waited at a crossroads for fares . |
| 16 | Not even the British could stomach the sight of the King and Queen arriving at a Coronation in separate carriages . |
| 17 | Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week . |
| 18 | The convenience and exclusivity come at a price , though : £1.75 per metre , ex-VAT per day , and electricity costs £2 per day extra . |
| 19 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 20 | Published in cooperation with the International Association for Mass Communication Research ( IAMCR ) , the issue is based on research and articles presented at a seminar on ‘ Reporting the Gulf War ’ which was organised by the IAMCR in Istanbul , Turkey , last June . |
| 21 | A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] . |
| 22 | This could result in the blind and pleats falling at an angle to the window . |
| 23 | That night the King and Wallis met at a small restaurant in Piccadilly . |
| 24 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 25 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 26 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 27 | So are silk waistcoats and blazers priced at a knock-down £45 . |
| 28 | I went over , exchanged greetings with everyone and Graham pointed at an empty table a few yards away and said : |
| 29 | Over five hundred directors and producers gathered at a luncheon to pay tribute to him . |
| 30 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |