Example sentences of "at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a tumultuous meeting between Kohl and the east German party leaders on Aug. 30 , de Maizière described Rühe 's accusations as unacceptable and offered his resignation , which at that stage was rejected . |
| 2 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 3 | The same survey , looking at a three-month period , told a different story . |
| 4 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 5 | Arrive at your hotel anytime after midday and then meet your fellow weekenders at a pre-dinner reception at 7.00 pm followed by a leisurely dinner . |
| 6 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 7 | Leicester , removed from the Pilkington Cup on Saturday , bravely chipped away at a 15-9 lead throughout the second half and , with an hour gone , led by a point ( 16-15 ) . |
| 8 | Even butterflies take note of being captured at a certain location and when subsequently released , avoid the area for some while after . |
| 9 | We learn from experience that certain visible appearances are connected with tactile objects of a certain size at a certain distance from us . |
| 10 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 11 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |
| 12 | The stump of candle kept the spiky shadows at a certain distance . |
| 13 | The epitomist himself emphasizes that he is writing at a certain distance from the events because he concludes his story with the words : " From this time Jerusalem has been in the possession of the Jews . " |
| 14 | Criticism , on the other hand , places the critic at a certain distance from the work . |
| 15 | I use the rear brake , I 'm using my knee and I 'm using a lot of upper body weight to keep my weight at a certain angle to the bike . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 17 | Back you 'd go then to the We used to have a a a a machine then , an electric box affair , that used to put your lamp in , it would set your wick at a certain angle that there wo made a spark and when you 'd close this up , it caused a spark that would light your wick again you see ? |
| 18 | Having turned towards your track at a certain angle , you now wait for your RC to move to a bearing where it is displace from 0° ( station ahead ) or from 180° ( station astern ) the same number of degrees that you are using for your interception angle . |
| 19 | He turned his head away , and as the light caught his face at a certain angle Nenna realised in terror that he was right and that he would never get anywhere . |
| 20 | He was to go to a certain address on a certain day — the following day — at a certain hour . |
| 21 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 22 | They were , are paid at a certain percentage of their incurred costs well below what it has actually cost them , until they demonstrate an achievement at a particular milestone and then the percentage is increased and er . |
| 23 | If they made a sale at a certain price . |
| 24 | An employer has no more power to give orders to an employee than a customer has to demand that a grocer supply goods at a certain price : all a discontented employer can do in practice , just like a customer , is terminate the relationship . |
| 25 | put a bid in at a certain price . |
| 26 | In this way the company is guaranteed that its shares will be sold at a certain price , whatever the prevailing market conditions . |
| 27 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 28 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |
| 29 | ‘ He went back and they said , Yes , he could have it , and their horse and trolley was going round there at a certain date and would deliver it . |
| 30 | The Warranties generally require confirmation that a state of affairs exist at a certain date , eg Completion . |