Example sentences of "[noun] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sensationalist cover in 1977 which followed the death of a fan at a gig by The Radiators ( my then combo ) will take some beating as the PITS . |
| 2 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car spotted nearby . |
| 3 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car which had been spotted nearby . |
| 4 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 5 | It is always possible to raise questions concerning religion at a later stage , but , as a general rule , it is probably always safer ( assuming one has the time ) to ask the more general questions first , and see if specific answers come up . |
| 6 | The distances between the two points were measured for each junction so that the driver 's mean speed at a junction could also be estimated . |
| 7 | It was noted earlier that some physics students had had difficulty choosing between science and arts at A level , and these students , like those who had interests such as reading or music , were usually more broad-minded than those who had always regarded themselves as scientists ; for example |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 10 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 11 | It is not necessary to give a patient more than one remedy at a time . |
| 12 | The homoeopathic physician is trying to match his patient to the most like remedy , and it follows that the patient should resemble closely only one remedy at a time . |
| 13 | The doctors in these countries claim that their results are as good as those obtained by giving just one remedy at a time . |
| 14 | WIGAN are wanted for a ‘ double whammy ’ Down Under next February — but it could cause a fixture pile-up at a crucial stage of the season . |
| 15 | A glance at a short section of a DXF file , see Fig. 2 , might lead to the conclusion that whoever designed the format either had shares in a paper manufacturing company , or a grudge against rain forests . |
| 16 | One of the men then gave me a perfunctory glance at a warrant before entering the house and walking up the stairs . |
| 17 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 18 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 19 | A glance at a map , however , shows how vital this junction is : From Durness to Lairg , the centre of communications and supplies , are fifty-seven wilderness miles . |
| 20 | A glance at a table of ownership of the British press in 1987 ( Table 4.2 ) confirms that concern is still with us . |
| 21 | This skill is assumed to be inborn and intuitive , but one glance at a student 's notes shows this assumption to be unfounded . |
| 22 | He closed the gay magazine with an elegiac glance at a pair of swollen male buttocks . |
| 23 | SECOND GLANCE AT A JAGUAR |
| 24 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 25 | A glance at a geological map of England will show that the proposed line skirts , and would accommodate the mineral district lying north and east of Chirbury , from which large quantities of lead and barytes are obtained . |
| 26 | A quick glance at a standard form partnership agreement ( Appendix 1 ) gives a good impression of the wide range of matters upon which agreement is desirable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The award was presented by TV newsreader John Humphrys at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 29 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 30 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |