Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the camera plane turned , and they swung to follow it ; and between them and the Line three trim shapes plunged in and out of cloud in a dive pointed at the F2B . |
| 2 | The Parkins ' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only . |
| 3 | This is analogous to the optical case of light from a source immersed in a liquid beamed at the surface and is thus capable of giving rise to similar critical " internal reflection " conditions . |
| 4 | The famous Vardon grip , immortalized in a bronze cast at the South Herts Club , was , with slight modifications , adopted by subsequent professional players and was accepted as orthodox by professional teachers all over the world . |
| 5 | In a sermon preached at the Reading Assizes in July 1681 , John Okes , whilst stressing the need for obedience to magistrates , also stated that if the magistrate commanded something " that is manifestly impious , and contrary to the know will of God " , we should not obey . |
| 6 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 7 | A thin-faced man , balding , in a shirt open at the neck to reveal gold chains , a woman , obviously beautiful in spite of the quality of the photograph , with her hair tied under a scarf Princess Grace style , and another man with a look of the Mediterranean about him whose face was partially obscured by sunglasses . |
| 8 | In a referendum held at the same time as the elections , 78 per cent of voters supported a new Constitution which provided for a directly elected President to appoint a Prime Minister who would in turn appoint a Cabinet , with all appointments requiring parliamentary approval . |
| 9 | The coup was declared illegal by the government and its allies , among them France , the French officer responsible for presidential security declaring the coup unlawful in a statement made at the main square in Moroni , the capital . |
| 10 | Lieutenant Colonel Bob Stewart , Cheshires ' Commanding Officer , said in a statement read at the inquest that he believed the fatal shot may have been fired by either a Moslem or Croat gunman acting on his own initiative . |
| 11 | Over half the female nurses in a study presented at the meeting said members of the general public believed that male nurses were gay . |
| 12 | Brenton , in a study looking at the feasibility of the voluntary sector replacing the statutory sector to some degree in the provision of personal services , concludes : |
| 13 | Collaboration is emphasised in a report prepared at the request of Europe 's heads of government , who met at the Versailles economic summit last year . |
| 14 | Benjamin spent most of the time sitting in a chair staring at the guttering candle flame , whilst my sleep was racked by terrible nightmares of my visit to Montfaucon . |
| 15 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 16 | In a paper given at the Hydrocarbons 1983 conference in March 1983 , BP propounded the view that the supply shortfall towards the late 1980s could be met by the development of UK reserves , and identified 50,000 billion cubic feet of recoverable new gas — two-thirds in discoveries and one-third in undrilled geological prospects . |
| 17 | The scale of the divide between North and South was sketched in a paper read at the December 1989 Chatham House conference by Rajendra Pachauri , Director of the Tata Energy Research Institute in New Delhi . |
| 18 | In a paper read at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Conference on Education and Local Development at Kusamo , Finland in September 1979 , Duncan Kirkpatrick had the following points to make concerning these developments in the Western Isles : |
| 19 | In its most spectacular mainland attack , the INLA killed the Conservative politician Mr Airey Neave in a car bombing at the Houses of Parliament in 1979 . |
| 20 | In a speech delivered at the conference , Li Peng said that 1990 would be a " turning point " in improving the economic environment and rectifying economic order . |
| 21 | In a speech delivered at the Cabinet 's swearing-in ceremony , Koirala said that Nepal was entering " a new era of full-fledged democracy " but warned of " a very grave and deteriorating economic condition " . |