Example sentences of "a [noun] at [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more dog cards than you shake a stick at yet the bookies are peddling this tripe from South Africa through the morning . |
| 2 | Let's have a look at just a few . |
| 3 | So we decided to take a look at just a little of what was on offer — comparing the leading firework brand with a cheaper one on offer . |
| 4 | This takes a look at where the game has been in the Eighties and where it might be going in future . |
| 5 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 6 | In this chapter we shall first take a look at how the most commonly used measure of national wealth — gross national product ( GNP ) — is constructed , and consider the distribution of GNP across several countries . |
| 7 | What better time to take an over-view of the sort of things I am asked most often , and a look at how the commonest problems can be avoided ? |
| 8 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 9 | Next week we shall be taking a look at quite a different subject . |
| 10 | Yes the and there 's a place out Glen Bainey er at the march between Glen Shee and Glen Ayloch and there 's a a fence er a gate or a steps at just the Glen Shee folk waited at that side to meet the Glen Ayloch folk to take the coffin over the dyke . |
| 11 | Vegetation , like this tree found in the same area , suggests that the mammoths were existing in a climate at least a couple of degrees warmer than southern Britain has now . |
| 12 | The motorspeeder had entered a canyon at least a mile wide . |
| 13 | Nuclear Electric can now generate extra electricity worth up to £200,000 a day at almost no extra cost . |
| 14 | Here it is , a breech at least a hundred yards long and the power station has been swept away . |
| 15 | Dating a " consumer revolution " suggests a beginning at least a generation earlier . |
| 16 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 17 | It was no accident that medical misogyny , with its powerful definitions of moral and immoral female behaviour , reached a peak at precisely the moment when middle-class women were beginning to challenge the hegemony of the male professions . |
| 18 | Tax revenue was found to reach a peak at around a 60% ‘ composite tax rate ’ , i.e. one which includes both direct and indirect taxes , as well as various social security payments , all expressed as a percentage of GDP . |
| 19 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 20 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 21 | Properly targeted , together with training incentives , the Chancellor could do quite a lot at not a huge cost . |
| 22 | For a time at least the Bank as monopoly supplier can charge any rate it chooses . |