Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 1909 , a statistician at the American Telephone & Telegraph Company projected two curves 15 years out : telephone traffic and American population . |
| 2 | The old mine filled with water and maintained a level at the old hand chiselled " stollen " , Cobblers Level , which was approx. 180 ft. from the bottom . |
| 3 | Detectives want to hear from anyone offered cheap fish after a burglary at the Golden Flatts fish and chip shop in Jutland Road , Hartlepool . |
| 4 | For a discussion of the relevant case law see Chapter 9 , 6(d). ( h ) The decision The court is not obliged to reach a decision at the final hearing but it must do so as soon as is practicable ( FPCR , r21(4) ; FPR , r4.21(3) ) . |
| 5 | I have no evidence one way or another as to the extent of risk of an episode occurring within five weeks but realism and commonsense tell me that there is a reasonable possibility that it will not and that even if he does unfortunately suffer such a trauma , he will if his life has to be preserved by artificial means , recover sufficiently for a decision at the main hearing as to further mechanical ventilation for the future . |
| 6 | Jilly had passed her A level in English Literature the summer before , having notably failed to acquire any qualifications except a pass in O level Divinity at her expensive school : now she was hoping to qualify for a course at the Open University . |
| 7 | At present I am doing a course at the local college and I recommend this to anyone . |
| 8 | Finally , important solution forms are to be found in the Red Sea , a region of such aridity that the possibility of fresh water playing a part at the present time can be ignored . |
| 9 | The past also played a part at the Communist Party 's congress . |
| 10 | If anything unusual occurs at one of these phases a fixation at the relevant phase occurs . |
| 11 | TWO women were occupying a building at the doomed Parkside Colliery , St Helens , this afternoon in protest over the closure of the pit . |
| 12 | ‘ I happen to be the only person here who believes we have to make a response at the European level , ’ Mr Radice said . |
| 13 | The reason for this becomes clear if you use an annular stimulus ; you then get a response at the opposite phase to that for a central stimulus , and there is antagonism between these two regions , so when you illuminate both together there is little or no response ; they cancel each other out . |
| 14 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 15 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 16 | The demonstrations began on March 7 , when 200 women representing organisations from all over the West Bank and Gaza held a sit-in at the Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem . |
| 17 | Hence the establishment of the right to enclose land , to sell or rent it , subject only to the ‘ will of the contracting parties ’ : the right to enclose was a blow at the pasturing rights of the Mesta which patently infringed the individual 's right to dispose of his property . |
| 18 | Such a denial is , indeed , a blow at the very foundation of the Christian faith . ’ |
| 19 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 20 | At a cottage at the top end of the village , permission is granted , on payment of a small charge , to enter the grounds of Ingleborough Hall . |
| 21 | I can be a cadet at the local hospital and later on I can do my training in London . ’ |
| 22 | The cause of the tears was the arrival , a few days earlier , of a parcel at the busy Buckingham Palace office which she shared with Michael Colbourne , who was then in charge of the Prince 's finances , and several others . |
| 23 | It is a fallacy at the present moment to believe that there are any quick cures for our monetary difficulties , least of all joining the ERM ( European exchange rate mechanism ) . |
| 24 | It was in a field at the far end of the village where I live , just across from the playing field and cricket ground . |
| 25 | Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work . |
| 26 | A problem whereby a strip at the left hand edge would be blank for quite bright subjects seems to be due to a lack of sensitivity of the device at that edge . |
| 27 | It does not take long for the difficulties encountered in finding a buyer at the contingent price during earlier disposals to be forgotten . |
| 28 | A salesman at the Crazy Eddie appliance store on |
| 29 | A look at the changing patterns of retailing since the end of the World War Two will illustrate how selling methods have been revolutionised . |
| 30 | To understand the potential market for presentation graphics hardware it is worth taking a look at the various ways in which information is currently being produced . |