Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at [adv] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | This takes a look at where the game has been in the Eighties and where it might be going in future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For a time at least the Bank as monopoly supplier can charge any rate it chooses . |