Example sentences of "at [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 27 government spokesperson Yuan Mu was hissed at during a packed meeting with Beijing University students on current events when he said that China would not deviate from the socialist road , despite current events in Romania [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 2 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 3 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 4 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 5 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 6 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 7 | This last was to acknowledge Charles , whom she looked at for a moment with suspicion . |
| 8 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Nichol has a lot of knowledge in the fields of mental health and this is one area we have wanted to look at for a while . ’ |
| 10 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 11 | Among the men already entered are The women 's event will see such names at For an official entry form contact |
| 12 | Cleveland Outlook social activities group meet at for an eight mile circular walk , lunch at Abbey Inn , Byland Abbey , 10.20am . |
| 13 | Thus the Globigerina ooze on the floor of the Indian Ocean seems to be accumulating at between a and I centimetre per thousand years . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't abide things you have to peer at through a magnifying glass before you can see them , ’ he said , and pulled open the bottom drawer . |
| 15 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 16 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 17 | Of the four species of penguin kept at Belfast Zoo , the adult king towers above the rest at about a metre . |
| 18 | In any case — and this is probably the least-quoted medical fact at parties — the lowest risk of heart disease occurs at about a glass of wine a day , so the average social drinker is well past any ‘ protective ’ effect of alcohol . |
| 19 | The closest starting point for a trip to the Grand Canyon is Las Vegas , though Los Angeles at about a day 's drive away has more choice of low-cost fares . |
| 20 | That is in itself a problem , for nothing in the arguments to explain the decline suggests why the fall in fertility should stop at about a two-child family , rather than ‘ overshoot ’ and decline still further ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 21 | It assesses practical basic language skills in English and another language in the context of the public services at about A level . |
| 22 | ‘ Most wells in the Gulf produce at about a 35 percent completion efficiency , ’ says Ed Park , senior completions engineer . |
| 23 | You spoke about what was said in the brochure that management charges had been or would be running at about a rate of inflation , we can see it on page fifty six , it 's better if you look at it I think , rather than I parrot phrase , see fifty six if you so kind now see fifty six is talking about at Broadstone will the management charges greatly increase the answer is no management service , er , sorry has appointed U K leading management specialist for several reasons , firstly because of their professional caring attitude , secondly because time has shown that management charges , rises the rate either slightly below or at the levelled inflation when that brochure was produced in respect of that development was that statement true or was it not ? |
| 24 | That usually works out at about a fiver a flourish . |
| 25 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 26 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 27 | It is in the same field with Alpha ; look past the fainter star 1 Trianguli , and at about an equal distance beyond it , in the direction of Beta Andromedæ , you will see M33 as a fairly large , dim haze . |
| 28 | At three a.m. she was Jay-in-love-with-Lucy , writing bad poetry or self-indulgent screeds of what daylight sneered at as a journal . |
| 29 | Looked at as a whole , Thailand has done well . |
| 30 | By counting the actual number of critical steps or decisions involved in the makeup and use of a product an objective figure can be arrived at as a measure of convenience . |