Example sentences of "[conj] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 2 | I have certainly been party to one or two discussions amongst friends , and as part of my work I take groups of young people away on climbing trips , most to very white-dominated areas where the mere appearance of a black face in a pub or at a crag is enough to cause stares and whispers . |
| 3 | Have fresh fruit or sugar-free yogurt for dessert a minimum of three days a week ; the other days have low-sugar or no-sugar dessert recipes whenever possible ( e.g. unless eating out or at a friend 's house ) . |
| 4 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 5 | The SAC has published its findings in a booklet which is available free to subscribers or at a cost of £5 from its offices at West Mains Road , Edinburgh . |
| 6 | The Chinese-style duck with hoi-sin sauce and pancakes , and the fish and vegetable tempura , are as accurately executed here as by native practitioners in Chinatown or at a Soho sushi bar . |
| 7 | The other half of the local freemen worked at the food and drink trades ( 10·5 per cent ) , clothing ( 8·9 ) , leather ( 7·9 ) , building ( 5·8 ) , the professions ( 5·4 ) , the metal trades ( 3·2 ) or at a variety of miscellaneous tasks . |
| 8 | So many of us are accustomed to eating in front of the television , or at a desk or even rushing about in the morning clutching a briefcase in one hand and a piece of toast in the other . |
| 9 | If you attend a discussion in your parish or at a synod : |
| 10 | Berkeley sees that , to his identification of mental ideas with real things , ‘ it will be objected that we see things actually without or at a distance from us , and which consequently do not exist in the mind ’ . |
| 11 | More shamefully , some owners of newly acquired imposing homes delight in ‘ libraries ’ which , seen in the gloom or at a distance , bestow a pretty glow of opulence and erudition but which , at close quarters , disintegrate into a heterogeneous muddle of worthless books , sometimes bought in bulk . |
| 12 | Cure : by command , touch or at a distance ; |
| 13 | Characteristic ‘ whee-oo ’ call reveals presence of drake even in fog or at a distance ; duck has purring note . |
| 14 | But if you crave something more substantial , choose prawn or at a pinch , chicken — and preferably one of the drier versions , such as Bhuna or Madras or , even better , a Biryani . |
| 15 | Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide . |
| 16 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 17 | Women who stop attending the clinic are sent a postal version of the questionnaire and , if this is not returned , are interviewed over the telephone or at a home visit . |
| 18 | In the right place , a raffle can be a winner , by persuading a friendly car dealer to loan you a car to put in a shopping centre , or at a country show . |
| 19 | This can be covered by the skirting board at the walls , or by a variety of mouldings such as stair-nose ( for edging the top stair ) , T-profile ( for where two wood floors join at the same level ) , and quadrant ( where you 've left the original skirting in place , or at a wall where there is no skirting ) . |
| 20 | Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street . |
| 21 | If a member of the clergy officiates at a service in an unconsecrated part of a cemetery , or at a crematorium , the charge usually reflects the parochial fee for a similar service . |
| 22 | A person who is in a street or public place can be solicited by a prostitute who is on a balcony or at a window ( Smith v Hughes [ 1960 ] 2 All ER 859 ) . |
| 23 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) . |
| 24 | SUBFERTILITY — FERTILITY that is lower than " normal " or at a level below the level that is average for the population . |
| 25 | For example if the next record is requested , is it the next at that level or at a parent level or at some other level ? |
| 26 | Taking into account all the adjustments , we can see that the bank bond ought to be trading at 5.61 lower than or at a yield to maturity of 1.14 per cent higher than the comparable government bond . |
| 27 | A draft report from the House of Representatives charged that the EPA ‘ acted improperly or at a minimum created the appearance of impropriety ’ , in deciding not to regulate formaldehyde as a cancer-causing chemical . |
| 28 | Pause for a moment and think of someone ( or more than one ) whom God has used for your own teaching , encouragement , guidance , perhaps in your youth or young adulthood or marriage , or at a crisis point in your life , or very recently . |
| 29 | Thus , a group is more than an aimless crowd of people waiting in an airport lounge or at a bus-stop . |
| 30 | Would it be in church or at a registry office Where would the reception take place ? |