Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
| 2 | This uncertainty comes at a time when the housing needs of all elderly people are increasing and there is a clear need for more good low-cost rented accommodation . |
| 3 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 4 | This conclusion emerged at a meeting between the FUW and Wales Young Farmers Clubs representatives . |
| 5 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
| 6 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 7 | They 're being sold in lots of four … one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy … following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed , his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life . |
| 8 | Alas , this knowledge comes at a time when it is virtually the eleventh hour for the tiger . |
| 9 | This character moving at a snail 's pace on a table is Helix Aspersa Maxima … the Large Grey Algerian.And if you 're partial to munching the odd mollusc … he 's quite the tastiest morsel there is.Here at the L'Escargot Anglais snail farm in Herefordshire , Tony Vaughan produces four tons of snails a year … that 's around half a million individuals.He set the business up three and a half years ago after leaving the army.And now he 's supplying restaurants and supermarkets , as well as exporting to Eastern Europe : |
| 10 | This woman works at a Garrimpo and has also been exposed to mercury vapour . |
| 11 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 12 | Robert Dunlop meanwhile escaped all this mayhem to win at an almost pedestrian average speed of 112.65mph from second placed man Dave Milling followed by Ian Lougher , Alan Irwin , Brian Reid and Jason Griffiths . |
| 13 | For Perez de Cuellar , this incident came at a time when he was still closely involved with other business , notably engineering the release of hostages held in Lebanon and Israel . |
| 14 | In addition it was found that as the number of choices which could be made , when choosing the cards , increased by a factor of 2 ( another bit of information was required ) , the time required for the brain to make this choice increased at a constant rate . |
| 15 | This project looks at a highly distinctive group — migrants from the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe — who because of their French nationality ( the islands are departements d'outre mer ) and the organised nature of their migration share only in part the socio-economic characteristics of the foreign immigrant population . |
| 16 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 17 | It is also made aware , by this ability to feel at a distance , of the movements of other fish swimming alongside it , an important ability for those species that form shoals . |
| 18 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 19 | This increase continued at a slightly reduced rate , to reach 29.5 in the period between 1978 and 1983 . |
| 20 | This increase continued at a slightly reduced rate , to reach 29.5 in the period between 1978 and 1983 . |
| 21 | This identity operates at a much higher level than mere identity of the body or continuity of habits . |