Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wembley will also advise on security , tickets and merchandise and be heavily involved with the mechanics of staging a variety of events at the stadia concerned . |
| 2 | It suggests that marketers need to offer products or services that offer satisfactions , or solve the consumer 's purchase problems , at a variety of levels at the same time . |
| 3 | I had to throw throw a bucket of water at the door to show them . |
| 4 | Tom Rigg , the warden at Loch Ossian youth hostel , can conjure three stags out of Rannoch Moor by banging a bucket of food at the door . |
| 5 | But for the moment , it is literally a case of meltdown at the rink , where instructions have been given to begin melting the ice . |
| 6 | A chance for a last flourish and a bit of fun at the end of a gruelling league campaign . |
| 7 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 8 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 9 | That caused a bit of talk at the time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I have a bit of trouble at the moment , and if … well , if anything should happen to me , I think Cabochon should know . ’ |
| 11 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 12 | THE CHIPPENDALES flexed a bit of muscle at the opening of the Formby Cancer Research Campaign charity shop . |
| 13 | He 's won awards for his skill , now he 's putting that to the test and hopefully earn a bit of cash at the same time . |
| 14 | The final hymn had eight verses , not to speak of a chorus of Hallelujahs at the end of each one ; Mr Frizzell enjoyed this and sang in a pleasant tenor voice . |
| 15 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 16 | On a part of Blakerigg at the foot of the gill from Blea Tarn there was a place with a fine echo , and Green imagined ‘ Music amid such wilds ! ah ! how charming , plaintive solos on the clarinet or flute would have a fine effect amongst such rocks , which during the intervals of rest , would echo back the melancholy notes in soft reverberations , and produce in the mind a union of the most pleasing sensations . ‘ |
| 17 | She saw his fear , his bewilderment , and above all , a kind of astonishment at the enormity of the complications that lay ahead . |
| 18 | Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear . |
| 19 | That was in The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit , whose title became a kind of cat-call at the conforming commuter who sacrificed his integrity for a safe income and suburban comfort . |
| 20 | His back was horribly deformed and rose into a kind of hump at the base of the spine . |
| 21 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 22 | Like y'know we we 've mentioned organisational structure I think in the very first lecture er that idea , the idea that you 've got a kind of box at the top labelled president and you 've got two boxes underneath labelled vice president and you 've got y'know one box goes off to sales manager y'know the sort of thing I mean , okay ? |
| 23 | The avalanche from the hill overlooking Station Road , Deganwy , left a trail of destruction at the rear of the houses . |
| 24 | On Jan. 22 it was reported that the government had ordered a tightening of security at the prison holding Pablo Escobar amid reports that he had been able to continue running his drug cartel through visitors . |
| 25 | Visitors with imagination have given names to other limestone formations here : a pedestal of rock at the entrance to the inner chamber is variously known as The Pulpit and the Bishop 's Throne , and the facing wall has a projection with a profile likened to the map of Wales . |
| 26 | Extending one finger to trace a line down Ace 's jaw to her jugular , Carrefour felt a trembling of excitement at the prospect of ending this one 's life . |
| 27 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 28 | For a lovely surprise when cutting into this toadstool cake , you could hollow out the cake before covering it with icing , and fill it with little sweets — ‘ a crock of gold at the end of the rainbow ’ ! |
| 29 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm here to see Mr Gajdusek , ’ she added , but , apart from a flicker of recognition at the Gajdusek name , there was little other response either . |