Example sentences of "at a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perez hints at a tie-up with Information Builders Inc for its Focus 4GL ( possibly the EDA/SQL middleware for accessing various databases too ) . |
| 2 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 3 | She 's at a kind of college of citizenship in Bath . ’ |
| 4 | It was at a church in Hertford . |
| 5 | He professes to be an atheist but met his wife at the Youth Fellowship at a church in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 7 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 8 | He sucked at a bottle of Guinness , and went on fingering the rounds . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose we 'll see passenger flights after this , ‘ he looked thoughtfully at a bottle of beer . |
| 10 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |
| 11 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 12 | A glance at a map of Cleveland County shows the meanest intelligence like mine that four boroughs , including Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , make up the county . |
| 13 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 14 | Tracings of fabrics and grains can be quickly and accurately made at a range of magnifications . |
| 15 | The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation , customer care programmes , sales and marketing and budgeting . |
| 16 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 17 | It will be looking , indeed it is already looking , through the work of a business development section set up a year ago — at a range of options . |
| 18 | Measures to promote more flexible forms of retirement — at a range of ages and on a part-time as well as full-time basis — and to outlaw age discriminatory employment and redundancy practices would therefore be an essential part of this strategy . |
| 19 | In the older screw-type test machines it was the only feasible test program , but with modern servo-hydraulic machines very rapid rise time is possible and creep and stress-relaxation tests are feasible , as well as dynamic tests at a range of frequencies . |
| 20 | Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’ |
| 21 | In Adrienne Bennett 's classroom pupils work on mathematical activities which enable them to respond in a variety of ways and at a range of levels . |
| 22 | In directing subject working groups and TGAT , the Secretary of State at the time , Kenneth Baker , demanded advice on ‘ the measurement and recording at a range of levels of positive achievement in reasonably discrete elements ’ ( DES 1988a : Appendix B ) . |
| 23 | Last week employment secretary Michael Howard announced he was looking at a range of measures to boost tourism in Britain currently worth £25bn a year . |
| 24 | Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe |
| 25 | This effectively spreads out the resonance peak ( which at a steady temperature is very sharp ) , and produces strong coupling at a range of temperatures . |
| 26 | Police were last night hunting two youths who threatened staff at a newsagents on Ford Estate , Sunderland before stealing the till . |
| 27 | Paperboy Ben Cosstick was back on his delivery rounds today , just forty eight hours after being held at gunpoint during a robbery at a newsagents in Bletchley . |
| 28 | An hour later youths threw a petrol bomb at a temple in Coventry , before breaking a rear window and throwing two more petrol bombs inside , causing slight damage . |
| 29 | An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming . |
| 30 | The German romantic desire to escape from conflict and to arrive back at a state of harmony and unity is one of the most important psychological motives behind European federalism , and it ignores the basic fact that politics is always messy , divided and unharmonious . |