Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 2 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 3 | The Tornado would launch a Harm or Alarm at a safe distance . |
| 4 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 5 | Through this relationship , they can also be a record of the life force that exists at a certain site . |
| 6 | Well that 's it , it ca n't be right , it ca n't be right , because what you would expect in there , is another sort of perspex piece that comes at an angle like that . |
| 7 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 8 | Today Mary Letts hid her grief and appeared at a news conference in the hope it 'll help police catch her husband 's killer . |
| 9 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 10 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 11 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 12 | There are also plans for an Evening Bus Run with High Tea and Dance at a west coast venue on a date to be arranged in June . |
| 13 | Journalists sought to divide universities into ‘ premier league ’ universities which would do research and teaching at a high level , and the others . |
| 14 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 15 | A much more unusual kind of tonal conflict is occasionally found where composers add one piece of music to another , as in the works of Charles Ives , where the strains of a military band or an organ may be added to the orchestra , in a different key and moving at a different tempo . |
| 16 | For instance , it must be at an undervalue and made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts , the company must be in the course of being wound up in England or subject to an administration order , and so on . |
| 17 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 18 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 19 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |
| 20 | Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing . |
| 21 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 22 | Sir Leon was defending the compromise proposal that emerged at a meeting of the Community 's industry ministers this week , whereby the Commission might grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems in opening their markets . |
| 23 | The gall bladder is a reservoir that empties at a slow pace . |
| 24 | We shall see that although the uncertainty principle places limitations on the accuracy of all our predictions , it may at the same time remove the fundamental unpredictability that occurs at a space-time singularity . |
| 25 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a good performance , plotted and delivered with artistry and skill and aimed at an audience . |
| 27 | ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) |
| 28 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 29 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 30 | Jonathan returned to his desk and tinkered at a console . |