Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , one couple are so determined that as many people as possible should at least have the CHANCE to read it that they 're producing copies at a quarter of the official price . |
| 2 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 4 | Whether you make notes at a lecture , in the library or from textbooks that you are reading , they must be the finished article in its final shape , except for the colour coding indicating ranges of importance . |
| 5 | Social workers visited Celia and Danny to arrange sessions at a family centre , but the couple announced they were going to spend two weeks in Hackney with Danny 's mother . |
| 6 | In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ . |
| 7 | To take child care for instance , we can suddenly get two or three ah admissions to secure units at a cost of two thousand pounds a week and that 's er you know a hundred thousand a year per child so we can really there are other votes that can , can absorb that sort of money . |
| 8 | Particularly badly hit was Flint where the local authority had to be called out to help fire crews place sandbags at a number of properties . |
| 9 | Unless they can be guaranteed a post , they will consider alternatives at a time when they probably need to be free of distractions from their studies and may commit themselves to another job unnecessarily . |
| 10 | Many trade unionists , acutely sensitive to wage reductions at a time of high unemployment and deflation , held two important views on the matter of pensions . |
| 11 | His assistant should have directed a scene after lunch but the director returned to find things at a stand-still . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , SSDs have somehow managed to obtain resources at a rate which is the envy of other local authority departments . |
| 13 | In December 1989 the then Foreign Minister , Oskar Fischer , expressed his government 's desire to establish relations at a meeting with the chair of the Berlin Jewish community . |
| 14 | You talk like a bloody Rhodes scholar , and you 're slinging drinks at a lounge . ’ |
| 15 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 16 | The primary value of privatizing marketable services and contracting out some of the inputs to the production of non-marketable services is to reduce the monopoly power of bureaus and review committees and provide services at a price known to the representatives of middle-demand groups . |
| 17 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 18 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 19 | The upsurge in overhead costs is a continuing challenge to farm management farm manager Donald Routledge told visitors at a research and development open day . |
| 20 | BNFL 's investment in West cumbria — including spending on plant at Sellafield — amounted to around one and a half millions pounds a day , every day , for the last 10 years , Sir Christopher Harding told guests at a dinner of the Cumbria Society . |
| 21 | On Sept. 17 reports stated that tear gas was used to halt protests at a Mandalay high school . |
| 22 | We broke up after I met her mother , who walked into the room in which I was sitting , only to find me oblivious , shouting obscenities at a television screen whereon computerised pirates were digging up a desert island at my joystick 's behest . |
| 23 | Five children received awards at a ceremony at the Soviet Embassy . |
| 24 | On June 6 he told delegates at a seminar on promoting private investment that multipartyism would be established " in the near future " , warning at the same time that current conditions , notably the illiteracy rate of over 70 per cent , were " not adequate to meet the challenge of multipartyism " . |
| 25 | He told delegates at a conference in Kensington town hall about his luxury London hotel : ‘ My goodness , what a breakfast ? |
| 26 | Sports reporters are reputed to gauge crowds well ; who measures populations at a glance ? |
| 27 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 28 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 29 | A pub recommended by Egon Ronay is now cooking up spam and mash in its kitchen — to feed children at a village school . |
| 30 | Dr Mardell told reporters at a press conference in Zagreb that the torment and carnage he had seen in a week in Srebrenica and the nearby town of Konjevic Polje surpassed his previous experiences in Ethiopia , Liberia and Afghanistan . |