Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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1 | The likeness was remarkably good , certainly enough for a quick check at Immigration . |
2 | Those of the nightshade , tomato and several other plants , however , do so through a small opening at the tip , through which the pollen falls a few grains at a time . |
3 | The City of London Police ( who are responsible only for a square mile at the centre of London ) are controlled by a committee of elected councillors . |
4 | The wind group , as we have said , less frequently stands alone , and then only for a few bars at a time . |
5 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
6 | Chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid , 7.5 mg/kg body weight , administered daily as a single dose at bedtime , were started 10 days before the first lithotripsy session and continued until the gall bladder was stone free for three months . |
7 | It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table . |
8 | Since anti-Semitism was such a prominent feature of the Party 's public image , and that of its leader , whom many must have heard speak in person in the Munich beerhalls , it seems certain that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ ranked highly as a motivational factor at this date for the Movement 's recruits , often coming to the NSDAP from other anti-Semitic organizations and völkisch groups . |
9 | 2 The decision to appear should be taken only after a careful look at the benefits and disadvantages of doing so . |
10 | The former British champion , who lives at Middleton St George , near Darlington , had his femur pinned together after a nasty smash at Cadwell Park last year . |
11 | Recorded not long after a live cycle at the 1974 Aix-en-Provence Festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of the composer 's death , these are wide-ranging , run-in performances that completely escape the contrivance and routine that can so often creep into such extensive complete surveys . |
12 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
13 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
14 | So with a quick stop at Inverness to hone shamelessly my tabloid first-paragraph skills on Alison Hargreaves , it was off to Ullapool . |
15 | Cusack scored on his debut , but it was n't enough in a 4–2 defeat at Swansea , and Quakers remained in an all too familiar third from bottom . |
16 | He 's obviously in a bad way at the moment . |
17 | Where , on the other hand , the third estate was still weak and only in a budding stage at the beginning of the nineteenth century , as in Germany , Italy , and among the Slavonic peoples , nationalism found its expression predominantly in the cultural field . |
18 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
19 | As she reached the foot of the narrow stair Penry emerged from the kitchen , his black eyebrows knitting together in a daunting frown at the sight of her . |
20 | It is better to regard the system of county government as a body of professional people placed together in a large office at County Hall , who can call upon the representatives from all places throughout the area which they administer . |
21 | The College 's offer was simply to provide students to undertake work experience — but not necessarily on a direct replacement at the same level . |
22 | The prime victim , however , is the convenience supermarket meal which is cooked only to a certain temperature at processing stage , then chilled , transported and briefly heated before eating . |
23 | Andrew Kuttner , Pat Sutton and Eddie Welch have been training together on a regular basis at the Sports Centre for two years . |
24 | His round of 70 was marred only by a double bogey at the twelfth and a bogey at the thirteenth . |
25 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
26 | These moulded sties allow eggs to roll away through a small hole at the back for automatic collection . |
27 | He kept the corpse shut away in a special chamber at Sheen Palace . ’ |
28 | The process can be unpleasant and dangerous if unsupervised , but with medical , nursing and family help most people can ‘ detox ’ surprisingly easily within a few days at home or , if necessary , in hospital , without untoward symptoms . |
29 | The applications are a doddle to learn — most Windows users will be able to get stuck in straight away without a second glance at the manual — and they include a flowcharting module as well as Twain scanning support . |
30 | And five minutes from time , he cheered a meagre 2,363 crowd — Pompey 's lowest ever for a competitive game at home — with a clinical winner after a right-wing burst from Warren Aspinall . |