Example sentences of "[conj] at [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 2 | Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs . |
| 3 | ‘ You try having a father — or at any rate a stepfather — who 's in a coma . |
| 4 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |
| 5 | Further , the Vienna Convention does not specify how long the obligations under Article 18 continue , although at some point a signatory State that does not ratify a treaty must surely be in the same position as non-signatories . |
| 6 | The judge said that at one point a trench was dug across the track to prevent vehicles using it , but it was filled in . |
| 7 | He made it clear that at that point a judgement would be taken as to whether the draft treaty was acceptable or not . |
| 8 | The House of Lords decisively rejected Mrs. Gillick 's contentions and held that at common law a child of sufficient intelligence and understanding ( the ‘ Gillick competent ’ child ) could consent to treatment , notwithstanding the absence of the parents ' consent and even an express prohibition by the parents . |
| 9 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 10 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 11 | The toilet stank of urine , and at one point a chef was seen picking his nose while preparing food . |
| 12 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 13 | They collapsed into each other 's arms and at that moment a group of callow youths stomped past , bigger than the girls and ferocious looking . |
| 14 | ‘ I m-m-must wait until the contraband is actually handed over , ’ thought the Captain , and at that moment a boat loomed into view out of the misty night . |
| 15 | In the nineteen seventies I ran a school primary team , and at that time a woman refereeing football was quite a novelty . |
| 16 | Taxes Act 1988 , s66(3) states that if at any time a person acquires a new source of any income in respect of which he is chargeable under Case III or makes an addition to any source of any such income then in the year of assessment in which the income first arises from the source or addition and the two following years of assessment the charge shall be on an actual basis in accordance with TA 1988 , s66(1) . |
| 17 | If only we could know for sure , but at that moment a guard came in and took away the television . |
| 18 | However , the contract would still be void , because at common law a contract is void if it is made on a false assumption that its subject-matter is in existence . |
| 19 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 20 | The first wine we order is off , the second arrives , with apologies , unchilled — while at another table a woman complains her bottle of red is too warm . |
| 21 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |