Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , in either case , the patient may have to make a payment at the point of receipt of service . [ … ] |
| 2 | Leaving aside the difficulty of not making a provision at the same time as one is undertaking the assessment , this approach has produced two serious difficulties . |
| 3 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 4 | Around 1909 , a statistician at the American Telephone & Telegraph Company projected two curves 15 years out : telephone traffic and American population . |
| 5 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
| 6 | If you have a trial within a trial at the magistrates court , what happens ? |
| 7 | Mrs Lowe Lauri , a sister at the Royal , said she understood a request for an ambulance had been made at 5pm . |
| 8 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 9 | While I was in visiting my wife , I met Dawn 's mother , a sister at the hospital . |
| 10 | Keres were often described as hovering , on outstretched wings , above a battlefield , for their favourite pastime was to swoop upon a warrior at the point of his death and suck the blood from his mortal wounds . |
| 11 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
| 12 | His mind would likely have blown a fuse at the Jon Kessler show , at Luhring-Augustine until the 25th . |
| 13 | Where a stocking stitch tension might be 28 stitches in width to 10 cm , placing a cable at the centre might reduce the tension to 8 or 9 cm . |
| 14 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 15 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 16 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested by Ministry of Defence Police when he arrived in his Land Rover for a function at the Duke of Gloucester Barrcks at South Cerney on November the 30th last year . |
| 17 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 18 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 19 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 20 | Strictly speaking I 'm not occupied on a case at the moment , and this is quite unofficial . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 22 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 23 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 24 | There is even a bit at the end where the singer metaphorically falls to his knees and testifies . |
| 25 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |
| 26 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 27 | Then , in the fixed-point binary format , the presence or absence of a bit at the ith bit position indicates the presence or absence of the ith power of two in the numeric value held . |
| 28 | If I 've got to print them off from my computer and the computer 's er not exactly in bits but it 's just taken apart a bit at the moment so I need to put it back together again and print them off . |
| 29 | She jumped a bit at the unexpected prezzy , but Cathedral pigeons are raised on bread and pretty soon my bird was tucking in , which is when I followed up — a bit harder — with a handful of precinct gravel . |
| 30 | ‘ I finish here half past four , Wednesdays , I do a bit at the vicarage that night . |