Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In addition , in either case , the patient may have to make a payment at the point of receipt of service . [ … ] |
2 | Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties . |
3 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
4 | Around 1909 , a statistician at the American Telephone & Telegraph Company projected two curves 15 years out : telephone traffic and American population . |
5 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
6 | If you have a trial within a trial at the magistrates court , what happens ? |
7 | Mrs Lowe Lauri , a sister at the Royal , said she understood a request for an ambulance had been made at 5pm . |
8 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
9 | While I was in visiting my wife , I met Dawn 's mother , a sister at the hospital . |
10 | Keres were often described as hovering , on outstretched wings , above a battlefield , for their favourite pastime was to swoop upon a warrior at the point of his death and suck the blood from his mortal wounds . |
11 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
12 | His mind would likely have blown a fuse at the Jon Kessler show , at Luhring-Augustine until the 25th . |
13 | Where a stocking stitch tension might be 28 stitches in width to 10 cm , placing a cable at the centre might reduce the tension to 8 or 9 cm . |
14 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
15 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
16 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested by Ministry of Defence Police when he arrived in his Land Rover for a function at the Duke of Gloucester Barrcks at South Cerney on November the 30th last year . |
17 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
18 | Lord Apsley was nearly four times over the legal limit when he arrived for a function at an army barracks . |
19 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
20 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
21 | Strictly speaking I 'm not occupied on a case at the moment , and this is quite unofficial . |
22 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
23 | It simply means thinking a little about your diet and daily routine , and improving it a bit at a time . |
24 | The secret is not to get too greedy and try to knock off large pieces : aim to knock out the back of the tile at the corner , which weakens the front , and then gently hammer the front , a bit at a time . |
25 | To tell you the truth , we are a bit at a loss . |
26 | got to break it down into little steps and do a bit at a time |
27 | Instead of doing it a bit at a time , we can just multiply it . |
28 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |
29 | I , yeah , I drove up , up there and back , like , my leg do n't ache , they ached a bit at a time , but that , you know that bone you get , each side of your keep your thumb there , you 've got that bone , underneath there 's a bone there , you might , or the bottom bone that you 'll sit on , you know when you sit still you get that bone . |
30 | Have to do a bit at a time . |