Example sentences of "at a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The story ends at a funeral , hovered over by a surreal balloon , from which hangs a fancied female acrobat . |
| 32 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 33 | His story begins at a time when , as at other times in this century , the patriciate , and the merely rich , had slipped down into marked collusion with the smart , with upstarts and bohemians . |
| 34 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 35 | We are later tolerantly informed — in the presiding idiom of the book , by a narrator keen , as ever , to monitor Patrick 's impressions — that the smell was not atrocious : ‘ not strong but easily perceptible , like a large zoo passed at a distance . ’ |
| 36 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 37 | At a mid-point in the novel there occurs McClintoch 's complaint that people are divided into the ‘ attractive ’ and the ‘ unattractive ’ , rather as , according to Disraeli , as Graham duly notes , Victorian England was divided into the two nations ' of rich and poor . |
| 38 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 39 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 40 | The cost of training at a summer school over a five-week period will vary with the different establishments , but the overall fee is likely to be around £700 ( 1990 prices ) , for all students , whether from Britain or overseas . |
| 41 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 42 | The next step is to prepare for the audition at a drama school and find the right kind of textual material which will allow you to show the best of yourself . |
| 43 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 44 | No-one can hope to have a command of all these things at a first audition . |
| 45 | The piece needs to be taken at a good pace and in high spirits . |
| 46 | Rosaline is very much a match for Berowne ; this is her last challenge to him , at a moment in the play when death has blown all comedy away . |
| 47 | Maggie , in between numbers at a rock concert , talks to Laura about the young student who has just made love to her . |
| 48 | This means that students then have the chance to present themselves as they would at a working audition , and this is often quite a good place to attract attention . |
| 49 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 50 | The past is often reflected by something called documentary drama , which uses improvisation before arriving at a script in its final state . |
| 51 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 52 | Prospect Theatre Company at a very exciting time . |
| 53 | As Liberty and Tyranny have no common meeting place , so protestantism and popery can not be reconciled … popery is tyrannical in every sphere of life … protestantism , at a stroke , cuts down all the shackles of superstition and priestcraft . |
| 54 | It may also mean freedom to purchase ‘ Playboy ’ magazine , to indulge in the vulgarities of verbal and visual displays of the sexual and sexist types , though at a much lower level than those current in Scotland or England at soccer matches and in public houses . |
| 55 | Their membership , mainly middle-class , have met considerable difficulty in trying to achieve their limited goals — integrated schooling for the children of those parents who wish it — though some of the membership in the early days were aiming at a total integration of the schooling system . |
| 56 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 57 | I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss . |
| 58 | At a certain point , he wrote , you have to let go , he wrote , you have to let it go . |
| 59 | Is it because I am at a loss as to how to go on ? |
| 60 | Each discovery is bought at a cost , he wrote . |