Example sentences of "at a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 's at a kind of college of citizenship in Bath . ’ |
| 4 | Nenna had just time to say , I must be going , before she came back , tottering at a kind of dignified slant , and holding a large tin of cheese straws . |
| 5 | ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose we 'll see passenger flights after this , ‘ he looked thoughtfully at a bottle of beer . |
| 8 | He sucked at a bottle of Guinness , and went on fingering the rounds . |
| 9 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |
| 10 | If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings . |
| 11 | But even looking at a map of an area you already know can be interesting . |
| 12 | Come and have a look at a map of the Channel . ’ |
| 13 | A glance at a map of Cleveland County shows the meanest intelligence like mine that four boroughs , including Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , make up the county . |
| 14 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 15 | Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’ |
| 16 | This effectively spreads out the resonance peak ( which at a steady temperature is very sharp ) , and produces strong coupling at a range of temperatures . |
| 17 | The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation , customer care programmes , sales and marketing and budgeting . |
| 18 | Measures to promote more flexible forms of retirement — at a range of ages and on a part-time as well as full-time basis — and to outlaw age discriminatory employment and redundancy practices would therefore be an essential part of this strategy . |
| 19 | The distance is accurate to within 1 cm at a range of 250 metres , and the height is accurate to within 3 mm relative to the source . |
| 20 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 21 | This meant approaching highly unpredictable , often wounded elephants , in dense undergrowth at a range of 15 yards ( 14 m ) . |
| 22 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 23 | They are each used here to gesture at a range of philosophical positions . |
| 24 | In Adrienne Bennett 's classroom pupils work on mathematical activities which enable them to respond in a variety of ways and at a range of levels . |
| 25 | In directing subject working groups and TGAT , the Secretary of State at the time , Kenneth Baker , demanded advice on ‘ the measurement and recording at a range of levels of positive achievement in reasonably discrete elements ’ ( DES 1988a : Appendix B ) . |
| 26 | Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe |
| 27 | The first prizewinner will also receive £250 worth of vouchers to spend at a range of top high-street stores ; the 12 second prizewinners get £80 worth of vouchers . |
| 28 | The moth can hear the bat from a greater distance than the bat can pick up the echo from a flying moth ; to be precise , a moth can hear a bat about 100 feet away , whereas a bat can detect a moth at a range of less than 8 feet . |
| 29 | These observations of distance and speed can be coupled with general knowledge of the way a small probe behaves in the gravitational fields of bodies in the Solar System to determine the spacecraft 's position with astonishing accuracy , typically to a few hundred metres at a range of hundreds of millions of kilometres . |
| 30 | FIGURE 4.8 The clouds of Venus , an enhanced image at ultraviolet wavelengths , from Mariner 10 at a range of 720 000 km . |