Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 2 | 685 , where , as a result of there being no quorum at a half yearly meeting of a licensing court , the meeting could not be adjourned under the existing legislation and the Court of Session had to intervene by virtue of its nobile officium in order to prevent the expiry of certificates due for renewal at the meeting . |
| 3 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |
| 4 | The cyclists carried a letter of introduction from Bishop Brewer which helped them secure accommodation at a few churches along the way , including the Cathedrals at Assisi and Chartres . |
| 5 | When the plant closed , and after trying his hand at a few other jobs , he finally settled at . |
| 6 | ‘ WE MAKE SURE the high ground is safe for the officers before they go in , ’ Officer Terry McIntosh , a helicopter pilot with the Los Angeles Police Department , said as we flew over the city at a few hundred feet . |
| 7 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 8 | To get a better idea of all the options you take a look at a few good catalogues , such as tat from Bressingham Gardens , Diss , Norfolk IP22 2AB . |
| 9 | Well just let's have a look at a few shall we ? |
| 10 | Erm just before we break , erm it might be worthwhile just having a look at a few examples . |
| 11 | Well let's have a look at a few figures then , as to why we do need to consider it . |
| 12 | Now in the scriptures , we 're gon na have a look at a few because the scriptures counsel us time and again , er that we are living in difficult times , we know that and it can become difficult to stay spiritually alert and awake and that 's why constantly throughout the scriptures you 'll find that we 're er counselled and encouraged to stay awake , stay awake and as we sang stand firm and , and grow mighty spirits , the first one is in Romans chapter thirteen . |
| 13 | The French Atomic Energy Commission has reawakened concerns over plutonium contamination at a former nuclear dump near Paris , by admitting that radioactivity at the site is more widespread than previously thought . |
| 14 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 15 | At present , however , many people are absolutely riveted by what is happening , or could happen , in this country at a such a crucial moment in world history . |
| 16 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |
| 17 | In this way , one of the best Home Secretaries of the post-war era was abruptly removed from the Home Office at a few hours notice , leaving behind a collection of unfinished artefacts to be completed by other hands . |
| 18 | Judith Bailey 's firm , clear beat led perhaps to an unduly deliberate tempo and heaviness of phrasing in the first movement of Beethoven 's Emperor Concerto and narrowly missed coinciding with the soloist at a few important junctions . |
| 19 | A BLAZE at a former bus depot is being treated as arson . |
| 20 | Police and fire chiefs are investigating the cause of blaze at a former school at the old Linton School in Linton , near Grassington . |
| 21 | Firefighters tackling a serious blaze at a former children 's home in Kennelwood Avenue , Northwood , Kirkby , were pelted with broken bricks and stones . |