Example sentences of "[noun] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sensationalist cover in 1977 which followed the death of a fan at a gig by The Radiators ( my then combo ) will take some beating as the PITS . |
| 2 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car spotted nearby . |
| 3 | After a number of break-ins at a Darlington shop a sharp-eyed witness contacted the police with details of a car which had been spotted nearby . |
| 4 | The distances between the two points were measured for each junction so that the driver 's mean speed at a junction could also be estimated . |
| 5 | It was noted earlier that some physics students had had difficulty choosing between science and arts at A level , and these students , like those who had interests such as reading or music , were usually more broad-minded than those who had always regarded themselves as scientists ; for example |
| 6 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 7 | It is not necessary to give a patient more than one remedy at a time . |
| 8 | The homoeopathic physician is trying to match his patient to the most like remedy , and it follows that the patient should resemble closely only one remedy at a time . |
| 9 | The doctors in these countries claim that their results are as good as those obtained by giving just one remedy at a time . |
| 10 | A glance at a map , however , shows how vital this junction is : From Durness to Lairg , the centre of communications and supplies , are fifty-seven wilderness miles . |
| 11 | A glance at a map of Cleveland County shows the meanest intelligence like mine that four boroughs , including Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , make up the county . |
| 12 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 13 | He closed the gay magazine with an elegiac glance at a pair of swollen male buttocks . |
| 14 | SECOND GLANCE AT A JAGUAR |
| 15 | One of the men then gave me a perfunctory glance at a warrant before entering the house and walking up the stairs . |
| 16 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 17 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 18 | A glance at a table of ownership of the British press in 1987 ( Table 4.2 ) confirms that concern is still with us . |
| 19 | This skill is assumed to be inborn and intuitive , but one glance at a student 's notes shows this assumption to be unfounded . |
| 20 | They evolved rapidly and spread widely , and with a little experience a glance at an assemblage of graptolites on a shale surface can be used to determine the approximate age of deposition of the rock . |
| 21 | The award was presented by TV newsreader John Humphrys at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 22 | These shared residential houses for single elderly persons provide an important new welfare resource for the Association at a time when increasing numbers of those who served in World War II , and their dependents , are reaching an age when they need the support of a housekeeper . |
| 23 | Paul Byatt ( Mike Dixon ) and Kirk Smith ( Keith Rooney ) will accept £500 from the Royal Naval Association at a gala night in the Royal Naval Club , Bowring Park Road . |
| 24 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 25 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 26 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 27 | DETECTIVES were last night investigating an attack on a horse at a farm stables near Epping , Essex . |
| 28 | The gold safety-pin , carrying a fox 's mask , refused like a horse at a fence , to go through the beaded satin . |
| 29 | In another poem , it is remembered meeting places that receive the burden of grief at a separation that seems to underlie nearly all the poems in this book . |
| 30 | THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school . |