Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be eligible an enterprise should be registered in an EC member country and have a product or process aimed at a transnational market . |
| 2 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 3 | The category of ‘ further academic study ’ is a relatively broad one , comprising all full-time further education or training aimed at a higher or other degree at home or overseas . |
| 4 | Firstly , any lingering gossip about scams or hype evaporated at an impromptu set for Windsor 's assorted scruffians last summer , where Flowered Up revealed themselves to be well drilled in jazz funk slinkiness ( ! ) . |
| 5 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 6 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , the Commission put forward proposals to make it illegal for certain airlines to agree on standard fares or to distribute all available take-off and landing slots at a particular airport among themselves . |
| 7 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 8 | The candidate 's interests , and ability and motivation to study at a higher level are what matter . ’ |
| 9 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 10 | The chances of achieving great things with your puppy increases if training begins at an early age . |
| 11 | The Banks have also agreed to give the IBOA information on staff and payroll costs at an early date . |
| 12 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 13 | But , as with development planning in general , there is still a tendency to assume that development communication and information directed at a general audience will equally reach women . |
| 14 | During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before . |
| 15 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 16 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 17 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 18 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |