Example sentences of "a [noun] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Around 1909 , a statistician at the American Telephone & Telegraph Company projected two curves 15 years out : telephone traffic and American population . |
| 3 | Then , in the fixed-point binary format , the presence or absence of a bit at the ith bit position indicates the presence or absence of the ith power of two in the numeric value held . |
| 4 | The old mine filled with water and maintained a level at the old hand chiselled " stollen " , Cobblers Level , which was approx. 180 ft. from the bottom . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 6 | Detectives want to hear from anyone offered cheap fish after a burglary at the Golden Flatts fish and chip shop in Jutland Road , Hartlepool . |
| 7 | But because of their concern they made a direction at the same time as they made the care order . |
| 8 | Shall we leave it that I will consider making a direction at the next hearing in relation to that figure and the question of any interest thereon but will defer any such er decision until you 've had time to consider it . |
| 9 | For a discussion of the relevant case law see Chapter 9 , 6(d). ( h ) The decision The court is not obliged to reach a decision at the final hearing but it must do so as soon as is practicable ( FPCR , r21(4) ; FPR , r4.21(3) ) . |
| 10 | I have no evidence one way or another as to the extent of risk of an episode occurring within five weeks but realism and commonsense tell me that there is a reasonable possibility that it will not and that even if he does unfortunately suffer such a trauma , he will if his life has to be preserved by artificial means , recover sufficiently for a decision at the main hearing as to further mechanical ventilation for the future . |
| 11 | There were also the unforeseen situations that prevented his attendance at a course at the last minute — like the sudden outbreak of mildew that demanded immediate attention . |
| 12 | Jilly had passed her A level in English Literature the summer before , having notably failed to acquire any qualifications except a pass in O level Divinity at her expensive school : now she was hoping to qualify for a course at the Open University . |
| 13 | At present I am doing a course at the local college and I recommend this to anyone . |
| 14 | Finally , important solution forms are to be found in the Red Sea , a region of such aridity that the possibility of fresh water playing a part at the present time can be ignored . |
| 15 | The past also played a part at the Communist Party 's congress . |
| 16 | If anything unusual occurs at one of these phases a fixation at the relevant phase occurs . |
| 17 | TWO women were occupying a building at the doomed Parkside Colliery , St Helens , this afternoon in protest over the closure of the pit . |
| 18 | Drawings can often give views of the site that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a physical reconstruction , such as aerial or cutaway views , showing both the interior and exterior of a building at the same time . |
| 19 | ‘ I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said . |
| 20 | The reason for this becomes clear if you use an annular stimulus ; you then get a response at the opposite phase to that for a central stimulus , and there is antagonism between these two regions , so when you illuminate both together there is little or no response ; they cancel each other out . |
| 21 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 22 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 23 | The demonstrations began on March 7 , when 200 women representing organisations from all over the West Bank and Gaza held a sit-in at the Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem . |
| 24 | Hence the establishment of the right to enclose land , to sell or rent it , subject only to the ‘ will of the contracting parties ’ : the right to enclose was a blow at the pasturing rights of the Mesta which patently infringed the individual 's right to dispose of his property . |
| 25 | Such a denial is , indeed , a blow at the very foundation of the Christian faith . ’ |
| 26 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 27 | At a cottage at the top end of the village , permission is granted , on payment of a small charge , to enter the grounds of Ingleborough Hall . |
| 28 | The team had to reach both sites by foot from Mahimachi , a village at the foot of the Serrania — the first was a miners ' camp , while the expedition members built a camp at the second site . |
| 29 | I can be a cadet at the local hospital and later on I can do my training in London . ’ |
| 30 | The cause of the tears was the arrival , a few days earlier , of a parcel at the busy Buckingham Palace office which she shared with Michael Colbourne , who was then in charge of the Prince 's finances , and several others . |