Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 2 | and erm if you listen to things on the radio they they have at the end of a sentence or at the end of some sentence quite a pause for a second before they go on |
| 3 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 4 | That means a present or at the very least a card for people you know . |
| 5 | There is a story that at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the award of Gauss ' doctorate , Gauss was about to light his pipe with a page from the original Disquisitiones . |
| 6 | Kernaghan played as a striker or at the heart of defence . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is a coincidence but at the Annual General Meeting in November he was elected Captain . |
| 8 | a coincidence cos at the time I started taking them actually trying to spare my branch work in a bank . |
| 9 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 10 | Yeah I , I feel Brian I mean , you know , you said we 'd got ta be natural , it 's all very well reading from a script but at the end of the day it 's natural that comes across . |
| 11 | Where is the accountability in a policy that fails to take account of the number of people living in a house , and leaves businesses without a vote and at the mercy of local authorities ? |
| 12 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 13 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 14 | Marks suggested that after a careful time-and-distance run from the centre of Rotterdam , we would all drop a flare and at the same time fire a red Very light . |
| 15 | Yet at a poor family 's most crucial and most public celebrations , at a marriage or at the birth of a male child , the absence of a hijra would almost invalidate the whole ceremony . |
| 16 | By the end of the century , the Chinese government hopes that every peasant family will be living in a brick and tile house with its own toilet and water supply : a dream that at the moment looks impossible . |
| 17 | Unless you locate it either in the middle of a wood or at the bottom of a quarry . |
| 18 | But it very The belt was there , now in the classroom the master had a desk and at the side of the desk was the belt . |
| 19 | Sugar was displayed at the world market price of 33p a kilo and at the 68p it costs Britons because of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 20 | Each round was a point and at the end you were given a tenner for each round . |
| 21 | Sacher said that the StB had been " a product and at the same time an instrument of the former totalitarian power " . |
| 22 | Put it in a jar and at the end of the year we 'll give you the money . |
| 23 | Thus Emerson 's career breaks into three parts : his years as a champion and at the top of the FI drivers ' hit parade , his years as an unhappy and frustrated team-manager and his last years as an itinerant driver in search of a lost career . |
| 24 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 25 | It was possible for a middle-class reader to sympathise with a girl , even if she were a countess , when she entered upon the search for an ancient royal treasure in a thoroughly youthful way , or with a boy who , even if he were a king or at the least a count in eclipse , faced danger and responsibility with the doubts and the dutiful idealism of a public-school upbringing . |
| 26 | Alec Stewart again showed he is nowhere near Test class as a keeper and at the moment , his batting is looking very ordinary . |
| 27 | He never looks to have a rest and at the end of the day when we 've come in , he 's still out there practising . ’ |
| 28 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 29 | At morning Sunday school every week there was a clothing club into which each child was allowed to pay threepence a week and at the end of forty-eight weeks was issued with a voucher for fourteen shillings , a very high rate of interest in those days . |
| 30 | To raise the money , each member of the department donates fifty pence a week and at the end of every month , a raffle is held of goods that have been collected together . |