Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 2 | To take the philosophical one first , it was actually Nietzsche 's isolation at a critical period of his life that helped to create the need which Schopenhauer was to satisfy . |
| 3 | WIGAN are wanted for a ‘ double whammy ’ Down Under next February — but it could cause a fixture pile-up at a crucial stage of the season . |
| 4 | A quick glance at a standard form partnership agreement ( Appendix 1 ) gives a good impression of the wide range of matters upon which agreement is desirable . |
| 5 | A glance at a geological map of England will show that the proposed line skirts , and would accommodate the mineral district lying north and east of Chirbury , from which large quantities of lead and barytes are obtained . |
| 6 | A glance at a short section of a DXF file , see Fig. 2 , might lead to the conclusion that whoever designed the format either had shares in a paper manufacturing company , or a grudge against rain forests . |
| 7 | This cam be adduced from the fact that their internal document , Ireland Today , speculated about the replacement of some of the leadership of the association at a future date . |
| 8 | AN inside account of the Gulf War was given to the Alresford and District branch of the Royal Air Forces Association at a recent meeting at the Kingsworthy Sports and Social Club . |
| 9 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |
| 10 | It was sold to the Housing Association at a reduced value in order to make it viable . |
| 11 | Strachan 's quick thinking at a free kick caused confusion , and Speed was there to head the first . |
| 12 | Nine miles to the south , in the little village of Waterloo , the hugely fat Prussian Major had stopped his plodding horse at a small inn opposite the church . |
| 13 | But by the end of this series you should be in a position to find the right horse at a fair price — and that 's what every horse buyer should be aiming for . . |
| 14 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 15 | Classes are a relaxed , collaborative affair , with much time spent contemplating plans and frequent breaks to discuss the stock at a local wood supplier or how to fake a Stradivarius . |
| 16 | Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's questionable if you could change that perception at a national level . |
| 18 | Presidential elections turn on the personality of the candidate to a far greater extent ; those who seek the presidency must communicate effectively with a mass electorate at a personal level . |
| 19 | The initial defects of his system , depending on the introduction of fresh air at a high level and its extraction at a low level , were corrected by Karkeek of Truro . |
| 20 | Though the epicuticular lipids play a major role in reducing water loss through the integument , it now seems unlikely that this depends on an oriented layer of wax molecules subject to disruption at a critical transition temperature ( Hackman , 1971 ) . |
| 21 | DETECTIVES investigating a shooting at a packed Merseyside pub today arrested five men in a series of raids . |
| 22 | Remember that the primary purpose of the tail rotor is to counteract the torque effect of the main rotor and maintain the fuselage at a constant heading . |
| 23 | To maintain net investment at a constant positive level , demand for the firm 's product must be rising at a steady rate . |
| 24 | Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level . |
| 25 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 26 | The return to rock represents an abstention or introversion , a retreat ( the Jesus and Many Chain 's ‘ My Little Underground ’ ) , a local culture rather than any doomed attempt at a global overhauling . |
| 27 | It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite . |
| 28 | If there is an attempt at a forced entry , the Alarm and Lock bar flashes a bright light and sounds a loud alarm . |
| 29 | ANY attempt at a face-to-face meeting with the IRA is a dangerous operation , because it could either help or hinder the cause of peace . |
| 30 | Neil made no attempt at a normal tone . |