Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All such knowledge must be of value in nursing , where a wide range of people from a broad range of cultures are cared for daily in a variety of contexts both at home and in the hospital setting . |
| 2 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 3 | do you remember the time though as being , you , you certainly imply that it was a , a time when there was a quite a bit of unrest perhaps at the complexity of the scheme , as much as anything else . |
| 4 | Yet a kind of relief now at writing all this down . |
| 5 | She had been nearly speechless from seeing him so unexpectedly , and was a mass of agitation inside at what he was about to say . |
| 6 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson looks for a change of luck tonight at sold-out Elland Road . |
| 7 | This Centre offers a programme of studies both at the undergraduate and intermediate postgraduate levels . |
| 8 | Then she was aware of my gaze , glanced away , blew a puff of air upwards at her face , pinched the T-shirt between her fingers and flapped it for draught . |
| 9 | What was needed , of course , was a return to discipline both at work and in society . |
| 10 | A group of students hard at work in a lecture theatre in the University Building . |
| 11 | Imagine a space capsule in free fall near the Earth : inside it an astronaut strapped to one wall shines a beam of light horizontally at the opposite wall . |
| 12 | Use of the single stroke was limited to specific circumstances not all of which signified gracing , while the double stroke constituted a sign of embellishment largely at the discretion of the player — a discretion tempered by harmonic and rhythmic context and , it is to be hoped , good taste . |
| 13 | For the second time that evening , Loretta felt a sense of unreality quite at odds with the purpose of her visit . |
| 14 | Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible . |
| 15 | It is currently supporting a retrospective of Bonington at the Yale Center for British Art , a show of Matisse currently at the Palazzo Reale , Milan , and ‘ Picasso and Things : The Still Lifes of Picasso ’ , a major touring exhibition , at Cleveland until 3 May . |
| 16 | A number of proposals both at the unofficial and the official level were made to overcome the shortage of finance . |
| 17 | However , as shown in the following extracts , many cultures regard land as incapable of ownership by human beings , or award them a form of tenure quite at variance with the Western tradition . |
| 18 | The pair discussed a book found lying in the dining-room , the works of Sir George Mackenzie , a predecessor of Boswell both at the Scottish Bar and in literature . |
| 19 | But there 's a lot of entertainment here at the Shrewsbury Flower Show for the children ; entertainers like Mr. Boom here . |
| 20 | ‘ So there are a lot of points still at stake and I wo n't be happy until we are far enough in front to make sure we ca n't be caught , ’ he says . |
| 21 | A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat . |
| 22 | A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat . |
| 23 | There were only a couple of cars there at that time of the evening . |
| 24 | Japan 's annual Unix Fair was held a couple of weeks ago at a new venue in Yokohama , attracting 89 exhibitors and 37,000 visitors . |
| 25 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 26 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 27 | One year , in June , we found a pair of swans still at Toftingall . |
| 28 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Ashdown professed to be delighted that the Tories had taken the Liberal Democrats head on last week , in an attempt to chip away at their support . |
| 30 | Tastes change , however , and the Reverend Richard Warner , writing about Midford in his Excursions from Bath in 1801 , describes it as ‘ an anomaly in building equally at war with taste and comfort ’ ! |