Example sentences of "a [noun] and at [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Each round was a point and at the end you were given a tenner for each round .
8 He was light for what he did and played in a place and at a time when very heavy tackling was the chief feature of the game .
9 ( 2 ) In the case of an application for the grant of a new licence , the applicant shall , along with his application , lodge with the clerk of the board a plan of the premises in respect of which the application is made ; and ( ii ) arrange for the display at the premises , in a place and at a height where it can conveniently be read by the public , of a notice in the prescribed form intimating his application and the type of licence for which he applies , for a period of at least 21 days before the first day of the meeting as aforesaid .
10 Sacher said that the StB had been " a product and at the same time an instrument of the former totalitarian power " .
11 Put it in a jar and at the end of the year we 'll give you the money .
12 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 .
13 Most of us defecate once a day and at a convenient time .
14 The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around .
15 Alec Stewart again showed he is nowhere near Test class as a keeper and at the moment , his batting is looking very ordinary .
16 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 All those who pay income tax are eligible to sign a Covenant and at the end of each year the Church is able to recover some of the tax .
21 Each curricular area has a carefully planned programme of work designed to enable pupils to develop at a pace and at a level suited to their age and ability as we feel it is imperative that children experience success in whatever they do .
22 Its Pyrenean valley is known as the most fertile of all , thanks to the kindly work of the local glacier , which laid down its moraine to a depth and at an angle that produced grasslands of great repute .
23 It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit .
24 Senior Household officials like the Treasurer of the Chamber , the Chamberlain , the Vice Chamberlain , the Captain of the Guard , the Controller of the Household , and the Treasurer of the Household evidently held their posts under the Tudors without a patent and at the pleasure of the monarch , although by the reign of Charles I many of them had acquired a life interest .
25 Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame .
26 I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again .
27 The income derived therefrom ( which is accumulated ) may be £200,000 a year and at the end of the fifth year Mr X may die .
28 Other drugs block the reuptake of acetylcholine from a synapse and at the junction between neurones and muscles .
29 Smoothly , without a pause and at a nice speed , Matilda began to read :
30 It is always important to tell children the truth , in a way and at a level that they can accept .
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