Example sentences of "at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time . |
| 2 | He grinned at her , then swished at a shrub with his cane and asked , with studied casualness , ‘ And will you stay here at Bishopstow ? |
| 3 | The team receive their specially restored Volvo 144s at Pretty 's Bodyshop in Scole , near Diss , at a handover ceremony so they can begin their run-up to the start on April 17 . |
| 4 | But this as I have suggested poses massive theoretical problems , particularly in the attempt at a materialist position which would locate variations within changing social relations . |
| 5 | I had detected a smell and taste of tobacco — and I knew she enjoyed , among other things , a furtive drag at a Woodbine . |
| 6 | France for the 60th birthday party of Steve 's mother , Lynn , at a villa once owned by writer Somerset Maugham , which the Wyatts regularly rent . |
| 7 | They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ . |
| 8 | Get some volunteers to come and ‘ be canvassed ’ at a buffet supper . |
| 9 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 10 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 11 | Tritsch Tratsch had been mounted for Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet ( the first performance was at a matinée on 20 September 1947 ) and was an immediate success . |
| 12 | Physical activities can also sometimes cause difficulties since restricted visual fields can make it difficult for a child to catch a ball , wield a bat effectively or aim at a goal . |
| 13 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 14 | We have arrived at a multilevel view of style , which is composed of elements of dualism and pluralism . |
| 15 | Perez hints at a tie-up with Information Builders Inc for its Focus 4GL ( possibly the EDA/SQL middleware for accessing various databases too ) . |
| 16 | All records for attendance , which will be around 12,500 , at a mid-week club match in England will be beaten . |
| 17 | Shetland , for example , is 338 kilometres ( 210 miles ) north of Aberdeen and attendance at a mid-week meeting on the mainland could involve five days away from home for a councillor from the northern isles ( Wheatley 1969:292 ) . |
| 18 | When I returned to the UK in 1937 , just as the Expansion was getting underway and when the RAF was some 33,000 strong , one could see more people at a mid-week match at Arsenal . |
| 19 | A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head with a golf club , during an altercation at a hamburger stall on the A12 near to the town . |
| 20 | The driver suffered serious head wounds during the incident at a hamburger stall near a school in the town 's Princes Road between 2.45 am and 3 am on Sunday . |
| 21 | She was later seen at a hamburger stand in the car park behind the Guest House where she met her death . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards , she was seen at a hamburger stand in the car park behind the Guest House where she met her death . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She 's at a kind of college of citizenship in Bath . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said . |
| 28 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |
| 29 | After discussing the change at a Change Review Meeting , the New OED Project Director and the New OED Group Manager should complete the following : |
| 30 | I do think we 've got to bear in mind that when you are looking at a change does it apply to everybody . |