Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital watches work because a small sliver of quartz inside them pulses at a rhythmic and unchanging frequency , which is stimulated by energy from the battery . |
| 2 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 3 | When I first announced the results of my calculations at a conference at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory near Oxford , I was greeted with general incredulity . |
| 4 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 5 | However , I was disappointed at the reply she gave to my questions at a public open meeting held on April 7th , when I suggested that following many and varied discussions in different regions of the country , there was extreme concern in the non-action by the government in the matter of the vast difference in the value of imports from different countries , in particular Japan , as against the value of the imports they take from this country . |
| 6 | I could probably give you the best idea by saying that I conducted most of my tests at an output rating of only 8 watts per channel and that there was sufficient volume to overwhelm a large mammal . |
| 7 | Staff had the opportunity to present their views at a meeting on 12th November . |
| 8 | The county 's community health unit , which has its headquarters at Bryn y Neuadd Hospital , Llanfairfechan , will give the people of Gwynedd a chance to air their views at a series of meetings . |
| 9 | Both men have the chance to put their cases at a series of election meetings between 22 March and 8 April , with voting papers to be returned by 12 May . |
| 10 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 11 | North Belfast 's Neill Carty , the current leader in the Northern Ireland fell running championship , spearheads the six-man senior team over a gruelling seven and a half miles course which peaks at a height of 2,300 feet . |
| 12 | North Belfast 's Neill Carty , the current leader in the Northern Ireland fell running championship , spearheads the six-man senior team over a gruelling seven and a half miles course which peaks at a height of 2,300 feet . |
| 13 | Still struggling , Pan Am convinced its creditors at a meeting on January 22nd that it should be allowed to continue operations . |
| 14 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 15 | Trading standards officers investigated the couple after complaints from a computer engineer who bought their products at a sale in Lyneham . |
| 16 | Trading standards officers investigated the couple after complaints from a computer engineer who bought their products at a sale in Lyneham . |
| 17 | Representatives of 11 companies operating at Aberdeen Seafood Park are to spend five days promoting their products at a special exhibition in Aberdeen 's twin city of Clermont Ferrand , near Lyons . |
| 18 | They outlined their plans at an initial workshop on ‘ Television and Worship ’ which was held in Lage Vuursche , Netherlands , 27 April-2 May . |
| 19 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 20 | CHAIR HIRE The scheme involves disabled drivers leaving their cars at a site near the town centre and then hiring an electric wheelchair to take them around the shops . |
| 21 | Other proposals included ( i ) a $500 per child increase in personal tax exemption ( beginning Oct. 1 ) for families earning less than $157,000 per year ; ( ii ) a temporary tax credit for first-time home buyers of 10 per cent of purchase price ( up to $5,000 ) on homes bought by the end of the year ; ( iii ) short-term compensation for those selling their homes at a loss ; and ( iv ) a temporary investment tax allowance on the purchase of assets . |
| 22 | At the start of this year over one and a half million council-built homes had been sold to tenants under a scheme which let tenants of more than two years buy their homes at a discount . |
| 23 | If the values of UK purchases of dollars and of US purchases of sterling are roughly equal , dealers in the foreign exchange market will be able to balance their books at a forward rate that is equal to the expected future spot rate . |
| 24 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 25 | Faced by such determination and by the solidarity shown by workers in the ports of the entire kingdom , the National Transport Workers ' Federation sloughed off its doubts at a conference on 28 June and swung in behind Wilson and Cotter . |
| 26 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 27 | MILITARY musicians put would-be bandsmen through their paces at a Darlington school yesterday . |
| 28 | The ones who had stopped were looking over their shoulders at a cordon of men drifting in twos and threes out of the side streets and doorways and converging on the play . |
| 29 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 30 | REFUGEE CHILDREN WAVE FROM THEIR CHALETS AT A HOLIDAY CAMP IN DOVERCOURT PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY |