Example sentences of "['s] [noun] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touche Ross faced the wrath of Trafalgar House 's shareholders at a stormy agm last month , following Trafalgar 's restatement of its 1991 results . |
| 2 | Again , there is likely to be a serious breach of natural justice if a manager , after hearing an employee 's case at a disciplinary interview or appeal meeting , has a private discussion with the person who presented the case on behalf of the company , or with a witness , before reaching his decision . |
| 3 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 4 | The court will probably wish to terminate the defendant 's liability at a particular point . |
| 5 | The flattening of the seat cushion at this instant is owed to the driver 's weight at a prior instant . |
| 6 | The UN has targeted eight of 90 buildings at Al Atheer , a multi-million pound complex thought to be the centre of President Saddam Hussein 's attempt at a nuclear bomb . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 9 | It was reactive , responding to problems and issues thrust upon it day by day , rather than pro-active in trying to shape the organisation 's future at a strategic level . |
| 10 | Equity warrant bonds , developed from the traditional convertible bond , offer warrants giving the right , but not the obligation , to buy the issuer 's equity at a prespecified price and future date . |
| 11 | RISING reggae star Apache Indian got in on Prince 's act at a glitzy fashion launch for Joe Bloggs ' latest coup — a range of stagewear commissioned by the pop idol for his recent world tour . |
| 12 | This weakened the Section 's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury . |
| 13 | I worked in Norwich for two years and got my City and Guilds in hairdressing , but when I saw an advertisement for a receptionist 's job at a local company ( now ) I jumped at the chance . |
| 14 | Hudson made 50 before , suffering from cramp , he gave a return catch to Patterson , and after 20 overs South Africa ( 82 for 2 ) were in touch with the home side 's score at a similar stage ( 88 for 1 ) . |
| 15 | The Dorrit family in Rome , LD ii 11 , 14 , 15 ; Mr Dorrit 's breakdown at a Roman dinner party and subsequent death , LD ii 19 . |
| 16 | But one need not believe that God revealed God 's self at a particular point in history , so that one need necessarily make reference to that point in history in one 's religion . |
| 17 | If a recording artist comes to me without a publishing deal , I always insist IRS is considered for publishing as we can pay better percentage splits , do just as good a job , and help invest in an act 's career at a vital time . |
| 18 | He issued a libel writ after John Patten 's comments at a Tory party fringe meeting . |
| 19 | Boris Yeltsin 's victory at a recent session of the parliament has weakened them . |
| 20 | CRISANTO ESPANA , the Belfast-based Venezuelan WBA welterweight champion , was unable to receive his victor 's belt at a scheduled awards ceremony in Caracas last night because it was stolen at gunpoint from a boxing official . |
| 21 | Lang 's success at a ministerial level has not a little to do with the excellent relations he has with the President on both a personal and political plane . |
| 22 | The rotor 's arrival at a specific position can be detected by comparing , using simple timing circuits , the chopping behaviour to the behaviour at the required position . |
| 23 | Washington sent a special team to West Germany to await Dr Reed 's arrival at a military base there , he was handed over by his Shia Moslem captors to a Syrian army officer before being driven to Damascus to be met by American Officials . |
| 24 | But it was diving into a frioend 's pool at a private party in the Oxfordshire village of Nettlebed which has left him on Traction at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries unit . |
| 25 | Thomas Wilcox could hardly believe his good fortune and immediately put Midland 's money to use by expanding Crocker 's lending at a phenomenal rate . |
| 26 | The warrior pharaoh Tuthmosis III referred to the hour indicated by the sun 's shadow at a critical juncture of one of his campaigns in Asia , and it would therefore seem that he carried with him a portable sun-clock . |
| 27 | BOXER Frank Bruno said he would ‘ pull no punches ’ in his campaign to help underprivileged young people when he joined more than 400 youngsters being given a new chance in life by the Prince 's Trust at a special promotion in Ayr yesterday . |
| 28 | Speakers also have the option of anchoring deictic expressions to a different centre of orientation by means of what is known as deictic projection ( Levinson 1983:64 ) : The anchorage point for the deictic verb " come " , which , in unmarked cases , indicates movement towards the speaker 's location at the moment of utterance , is shifted to the speaker 's future home base in 5 , and to the addressee 's position at a specific future moment in time in 6 ( cf. |
| 29 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 30 | Rafael Moneo 's expansion project in Palma has increased the gallery space by 3,000 square metres , financed by contributions from the artist 's family at a final cost of Pta800 million , derived partly from the sale of works from the family collection at auction . |