Example sentences of "an [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 2 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |
| 3 | It is little wonder that he considered being single as an advantage at this time . |
| 4 | The differences in daily activity pattern give predators an advantage at different times , so that diurnal raptors have the advantage during the day , and nocturnal species the advantage during the night . |
| 5 | In many cases , and especially with annuals and some other flowering plants , picking the flowers will actually encourage more to grow , so you may find that picking for pressing can be an advantage at times . |
| 6 | Those who attack these interests commit moral wrongs on that society , and may indeed gain an advantage at the expense of members within that society . |
| 7 | It might give her an advantage at some time . |
| 8 | The fractional-order beams result from interference between scattered waves involving an adatom at least once . |
| 9 | Darlington Borough Council has been asked to grant planning permission for an outbuilding at Salter Carr Farm , Sadberge , by Mr and Mrs Knaggs . |
| 10 | There are two elements in an election at every level from parish council to national government — environment and organisation . |
| 11 | But there can also be detected an incumbent 's complacency after years of huge majorities and easy victories ; a slight resentment , almost , at having to fight an election at all . |
| 12 | In the early days of November the members of the Cabinet fell to arguing not whether there should be an election at all upon the issue , but exactly when it should take place . |
| 13 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 14 | Neil Kinnock is warning the Labour Party to be ready to fight an election at any time . |
| 15 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 16 | Another , who has problems in understanding speech as well as problems in understanding print , has an impairment at the semantic level . |
| 17 | When Nenna was not in the witness box , she sometimes saw herself getting ready for an inspection at which Edward , or Edward 's mother , or some power superior to either , gave warning that they might appear — she could only hope that it would be on a falling tide — to see where she could be found wanting . |
| 18 | Coffee drinkers , have an excuse at last ! |
| 19 | SUPPLE leapt to prominence with a hilarious Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the National Theatre . |
| 20 | Overall approximately 25 per cent of those aged 65 + have an income at or below supplementary benefit rates and a further 44 per cent live on the margins of poverty , i.e. they have an income within 40 per cent of the poverty level ( Victor 1989a ) . |
| 21 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 22 | Tip 's first job on leaving school was as an apprentice at the old Tom Stewart clubmaking works at St Andrews , soon to be taken over by Spalding . |
| 23 | The winners will be at home to Portsmouth , in the third round , and Chapple revealed : ‘ I was an apprentice at Aldershot in the early 1960s when Pompey manager Jim Smith was on the playing staff . |
| 24 | Keown started as an apprentice at Highbury , but made his debut while on loan at Brighton in 1985 . |
| 25 | Cubby ( seated centre ) spent his entire career in Dundee , starting as an apprentice at Westport Branch . |
| 26 | DSD not only wanted her , they wanted her enough to offer her six weeks working as an apprentice at Chanel , in Paris . |
| 27 | However , development is never static , and therefore an assessment at one point in time is an artificially frozen ‘ snapshot ’ of a dynamic process . |
| 28 | Pareto defined an elite at its simplest as those individuals who have the highest indices of excellence in any particular activity , whether it be train-robbing , fishing , political science , or big business . |
| 29 | In the Adam period they were also shaped like urns , with ring handles and a knopped-lid , and an aperture at the spout to accommodate the ladle . |
| 30 | This is visually achieved by emphasising some aspects of an experience at the expense of others . |