Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not necessary to give a patient more than one remedy at a time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The doctors in these countries claim that their results are as good as those obtained by giving just one remedy at a time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He closed the gay magazine with an elegiac glance at a pair of swollen male buttocks . |
| 10 | SECOND GLANCE AT A JAGUAR |
| 11 | One of the men then gave me a perfunctory glance at a warrant before entering the house and walking up the stairs . |
| 12 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A glance at a table of ownership of the British press in 1987 ( Table 4.2 ) confirms that concern is still with us . |
| 15 | This skill is assumed to be inborn and intuitive , but one glance at a student 's notes shows this assumption to be unfounded . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | DETECTIVES were last night investigating an attack on a horse at a farm stables near Epping , Essex . |
| 20 | The gold safety-pin , carrying a fox 's mask , refused like a horse at a fence , to go through the beaded satin . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school . |
| 23 | Often they will arrive unbidden at a mustering of High Elf forces and offer their expert services as scouts and skirmishers to the general of the army . |
| 24 | A range of bases are supplied from the point of manufacture to be held in stock at a satellite colour mixing unit built within the customer 's own site . |
| 25 | The fund will be available on a claims-made basis to cover any loss suffered by a former shareholder who held shares during the period April 16 to December 1 1990 , and sold that stock at a loss as defined in the settlement agreement . |
| 26 | Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time . |
| 27 | Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Spinnaker Software Corp has now completed the acquisition of Power Up Software Inc for $18.5m in cash , plus the assumption of some debt : the acquisition was financed through the purchase of preferred stock by Harvard Management Co , which bought $23m of series B preferred stock redeemable at the company 's option and convertible into shares of common stock at a rate of $1.50 or $2.25 per share . |
| 28 | Somebody with a £100,000 portfolio who deals £5,000-£10,000 worth of stock at a time will be protected from the worst stocks , doubly so if he is lucky enough to be in the hands of a dealer with a longer-term commitment to his profession than average . |
| 29 | Holders will have the option to convert their debentures into the company 's common stock at a conversion price of $11.875 per share . |
| 30 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |