Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 2 | And to top all of this , there will be competitions galore , with terrific holidays , goods and equipment to be won at a number of stands . |
| 3 | The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by-election . |
| 4 | The official go-ahead from X100 , won at a meeting of Ford and Jaguar company chief company chiefs in Coventry late in October , has sent an unprecedented wave of optimism and excitement through Jaguar 's Browns Lane headquarters . |
| 5 | In Congress-ruled Gujarat , on the west coast , the state Health Minister , Mr Vallabhbhai was attacked at a meeting on Tuesday and died yesterday in hospital . |
| 6 | Rubbish will be sorted at a site in northern England and turned into commercial products including compost made from food scraps and paper and an array of items using recycled plastic . |
| 7 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 8 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 9 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 10 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 11 | She was educated at a boarding-school in Hipperholme , near Halifax . |
| 12 | He was educated at a boarding school in Darlington and his family moved many times due to his father 's job in the Royal Air Force . |
| 13 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 14 | Educated at a missionary school and in Japan , Huan Xiang left the Kuomintang to join the CCP in 1947 . |
| 15 | Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University . |
| 16 | Educated at a school in St Andrews and at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Lapworth graduated in 1893 from Mason College , Birmingham . |
| 17 | He was educated at a school in Ilkley and at Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 18 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 19 | She was brought up in County Dublin and educated at a convent school and at Dublin 's University College . |
| 20 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 21 | Upon the latter 's death , he was educated at a hearing school in Clapham and thence at the Marlborough School of Art . |
| 22 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |
| 23 | The development of a central cook-chill facility to be located at a unit yet to be decided , to service both that and the group 's other restaurants . |
| 24 | The boundary between the core and the mantle is very sharp and is located at a depth of about 2900 km . |
| 25 | Figure 14.4 shows a number of entries concerned with ‘ land ’ and its variants and located at a variety of places in the main sequence . |
| 26 | We have already mentioned that woodland could be located at a distance from the settlement , as only infrequent visits needed to be made . |
| 27 | Secondly when potential actinomycin binding sites are in close proximity ( for example in GCGC ) only one of the potential sites can be occupied at a time . |
| 28 | This analysis is complicated by the overlap between these two sites meaning that only one GC can be occupied at a time . |
| 29 | Though some oil companies with large fields will benefit from the tax changes , Sam Laidlaw , Amerada 's managing director , claimed at a press conference in London that the measures could mean a shrinking in the size of the independent oil sector which competes with multinational companies for shares in offshore licences . |
| 30 | Khumalo , who was a leader of the Inkatha Youth Brigade until March 1991 , claimed at a news conference on Jan. 10 that 200 Inkatha activists had received massive financial aid as well as military training and political instruction from the SADF . |