Example sentences of "[vb base] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit balances will earn you interest at a rate quoted in all our branches . |
| 2 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
| 3 | The palm trees , freewas sand towers hint at a cross between LA and Nw York ; but the underclass characters — Wiff , Clem , Jacko , Horry , Mona , Athol — seem Australian . |
| 4 | It is disappointing that South Saxon charters for these years are frequently of doubtful authenticity , if not entirely spurious , but they hint at a sequence of events similar to those in Kent . |
| 5 | They could put the sheet up on the wall of John 's living room with Blu-Tack and anybody could see his next shift at a glance . |
| 6 | The dead room ( mortuary ) was provided with a table and shell at a cost of £1.4s.0d . |
| 7 | If you happen to stray into an area of mixed day and artificial lighting , say at a window-table in a café , beware ! |
| 8 | Two Teesside men are likely to appear before a special court today after being arrested and questioned in connection with an armed attempted raid at Eves Garage and a cigarettes snatch at a supermarket on The Parade in Whitby on Wednesday . |
| 9 | Typical behaviour of the spotted flycatcher — the sally forth , momentary hover , snatch at a fly and return . |
| 10 | Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old . |
| 11 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 12 | The vines grow at a height of between 100 and 200 metres and produce dependable wines of a style somewhere between the well structured , fruity Hautvillers and Cumières and the classic but cavalier Aÿ . |
| 13 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 14 | Next , a comparison can be made between the viscosity of a polymer melt at a temperature , and that at a reference temperature such as and so |
| 15 | They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization . |
| 16 | In the second method , the apices of the two veins may approximate , and ultimately fuse at a point on the wing-margin : coalescence of this type takes place inwardly towards the base of the wing . |
| 17 | A series of record cards are produced which reveal at a glance the condition and effectiveness of the stock in each interest category , and an ‘ annual replacement target ’ is worked out which serves for the selector as the target figure of acquisitions for his category during the year . |
| 18 | Also excluded from control were dwelling-houses let at a rent which included payments in respect of board , attendance or , more importantly , the use of furniture , the latter exception giving rise to " lino tenancies " ( linoleum on the floor and very little more ) , an early avoidance of rent control approved by the courts . |
| 19 | Ellingham diagrams show at a glance which oxide will be reduced . |
| 20 | I suggested we stop at a bar for sherbet |
| 21 | En route to Chicago , we stop at a truck stop and come face to face with Al Jourgensen , head honcho from Ministry and disciple of Aleister Crowley — and Dennis Wheatley . |
| 22 | They stop at a motorway services . |
| 23 | I get into step with him and we stop at a door at the end of the corridor . |
| 24 | We stop at a war memorial for what guitarist Graham Lambert ironically calls ‘ a photo opportunity ’ , only to be chased away by a jobsworth demanding a permit , and pause at a sculpture dedicated to the Jews that died in World War 2 , one of those chilling reminders that provide a spot of scary realism in every fantasy city . |
| 25 | So if you would usually start the programme with the address from the mayor at 9.30am , consider having the mayor speak at a breakfast at 8am and then give everyone a two-hour break from 11am to have a sight-seeing walk or shopping session before returning for lunch . |
| 26 | ‘ What you gon na do — wait at a bus-stop ? |
| 27 | Our results indicate that after ingestion of a solid-liquid meal ( breakfast ) miglitol and acarbose at a dose of 100 mg induce carbohydrate malabsorption and therefore shorten the MCTT . |
| 28 | Equation ( F.4 ) is a retarded solution : gravitational disturbances propagate at a velocity c , and hence the amplitude at r at time t is determined by the source behaviour at an earlier time . |
| 29 | Because if you look at a problem , and you read through , have someone to work it out you say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , and that 's yeah obvious . |
| 30 | Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures . |