Example sentences of "at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 24-page full colour schools booklet ‘ HIV — It 's Your Choice ’ is now available to members of the public at a price of 50p each . |
| 2 | You can be tested for infection at a special hospital clinic . |
| 3 | As a result there is now a large group who are at a similar stage of HIV infection at any one time . |
| 4 | Figures on its use from 1985 to 1989 were announced by the Minister of Justice at a press conference on 16 January 1991 . |
| 5 | At a meeting in February , the Ex-Services Group of the British Section of AI was officially launched . |
| 6 | In Tibet Ngawang Buchung , a monk from the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa , is still serving a 19-year sentence imposed at a mass sentencing rally in November 1989 . |
| 7 | At a recent meeting in London on human rights in Sri Lanka , MP Fernando Pulle Jeyaraj gave a graphic description of the torture and detention houses in which JVP ‘ suspects ’ are held by the security forces . |
| 8 | Dr Manorani spoke at a number of Amnesty meetings last autumn . |
| 9 | Left : A hired gunman at a United National Party election rally in late 1989 . |
| 10 | The death of one 16-year-old under interrogation at a police station in January 1990 has yet to be properly investigated . |
| 11 | On March 27 , in Alexandra township outside Johannesburg , at least 14 people were killed when men armed with automatic weapons opened fire on mourners at a night-time vigil . |
| 12 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 13 | This passage was written , incidentally , at a time when he was not well informed about Klee 's own ideas . |
| 14 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 15 | No prizes can be offered for pointing out that at a given moment there are artists of several generations working and in very different ways . |
| 16 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 17 | There is no one way of looking at a sculpture by Leinberger and similarly there is no one angle or distance from which we see it anything like whole , but there is something like a normal sequence of approach . |
| 18 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 19 | A lecture audience looking at a slide projection , incidentally , may also suffer from seeing distorted colours , though art museums take some care to sell transparencies of a satisfactory quality . |
| 20 | In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) . |
| 21 | The quotation is from an article of 1954 , at a time when Picasso 's reputation was very high . |
| 22 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 23 | The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art . |
| 24 | The youth is sitting at a little distance , his shepherd 's pipe in his mouth ; there is a charming simplicity in his dress and appearance ; he has a fine head . |
| 25 | The notice board at a show where notices are pinned up will give the general idea of what sort of reviews have been written . |
| 26 | Wolfe puts his argument as follows : ‘ What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of the New York Times saying : In looking at a painting today , ‘ to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial ’ . |
| 27 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 28 | ‘ At the end of the exhibition , looking at a painting entitled Black on Grey , and dated 1970 , I tried to pay attention , ‘ bare attention ’ , to its visual forms . |
| 29 | At one stage Glasser is invited to look at a tenement close — by Bernard , a Communist who was to fight in Spain and return with an altered mind . |
| 30 | The refugee from Glasgow saw through , and stood up to , some famous middle-class progressives , was asked to spy on student Communists , was asked , by a girl at a party , to ‘ do something ! |