Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision was at first postponed but permission was granted later in the year . |
| 2 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 3 | Buying something like a car is at the other end of the spectrum from holding cash . |
| 4 | A constable was at the door to regulate the stream of people going into the chapel , and she was directed to the eastern gallery . |
| 5 | The sheep often use gravity to increase the force of their attack : a male that stands above another on a hillside is at a distinct advantage ; he can drop on to his opponent using the full weight of his body . |
| 6 | The fact that a parent is at risk of criminal prosecution for an offence against the child will not justify exclusion . |
| 7 | She had copper-coloured hair , cut short as a boy 's at the back , with a mop of curls tilted jauntily forward at the front . |
| 8 | The acting he saw as a boy was at the local cinema , popularly known as the ‘ Cach ’ — the ‘ Shithouse ’ . |
| 9 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 10 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 11 | The best training for a chemist is at school to take maths , physics and chemistry . |
| 12 | By any stretch of the imagination , economically inactive lone parents as a group are at least as disadvantaged as those in social classes IV and V , who are commonly contrasted with their more privileged counterparts in classes I and II . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 14 | He treated Richard Branson with imperious disdain ; twice inviting him to his home , and being pointedly out on both occasions ; then declining to share his torpedo-sized spliffs when a meeting was at last arranged . |
| 15 | That possibility might arise if a plaintiff were at liberty to make a claim against a number of defendants with the sole object of ousting the jurisdiction of the courts of the state where one of the defendants is domiciled . |
| 16 | Without such a starting point , she argues , a leader is at the mercy of events and unlikely to produce coherent policies . |
| 17 | Management is harder when risk factor stratification shows that a person is at increased risk but does not have a likely or predominant mechanism at which treatment can be targeted . |
| 18 | In fact , when you are working small burrow systems a dog can generally tell you if a rabbit is at home . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most remarkable usage of a station was at PETERHEAD prison where prisoners were conveyed in special vans between work in the quarries and the quarters . |
| 20 | Friar 's Square in the centre of Aylesbury is outdated and ugly , but a facelift is at hand although it 'll set developers , Unilever and Friends Provident , back £60 million . |
| 21 | Let's take a butcher 's at those bugs . |
| 22 | The needs of the client as a whole are at the forefront — not just their nursing needs . |
| 23 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |
| 24 | Widowed and childless and penniless , a woman is at the mercy of her husband 's kin — or so he reasoned . |
| 25 | ‘ How fine can a woman be at la Principessa 's age ? ’ |
| 26 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 27 | A quick glance through the window showed his car still parked outside , but by the time she had showered and breakfasted she saw that a mechanic was at work on it , and half an hour later her doorbell rang . |
| 28 | They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point . |
| 29 | A transaction is at an under value if the transaction constitutes a gift or if the value of the consideration ( in money or money 's worth ) received by the vendor is significantly less than that of the consideration the vendor provides . |
| 30 | The Very Model of a Man is at is best when Cain justifies his fratricide with this lethal logic . |