Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |
| 2 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 3 | It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce . |
| 4 | One of the advantages of a quantitative study of this sort is that it is possible to view at a glance a collected set of responses . |
| 5 | It was a substantial , two-storey , L-shaped house standing to the east of the track with walls partly flint and partly rendered , enclosing at the rear a courtyard of York stone which gave an uninterrupted view over fifty yards of scrub to the grassy dunes and the sea . |
| 6 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 7 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 8 | Other problems converged with this one , and the solution that was found constituted what seemed at the time a natural development , and seems in retrospect , the decisive start of a second stage . |
| 9 | look at the plan a minute and I 'll show you on the plan . |
| 10 | So , turnround in a net debt of three hundred and twenty million and I think we will look again now at the net funds from operation and look at the analysis a little further . |
| 11 | Let's look at the definition a bit . |
| 12 | His special trick was to look at the floor a lot . |
| 13 | As the bus arrived at the airport a shooting brake drew up and a party of nuns got out of it . |
| 14 | The Company Commander arrived at the objective a long way last and considerably out of breath . |
| 15 | ‘ You arrived at the thought a moment before I did , ’ his daughter answered . |
| 16 | The jury was told earlier that after Mr Browning , 36 , arrived at the house a thick smudge of blood was seen on his Renault 25 . |
| 17 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 18 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 19 | He arrived at the café a full hour before he had intended . |
| 20 | Baroness Hooper 's letter stated that help with NHS charges for students were based on an individual assessment of ability to pay and on circumstances which existed at the time a claim was made . |
| 21 | Differentiating ( 8–60 ) , setting , ( 8–61 ) A dollar of debt displaces at the margin a dollar of private capital ( the case taken by Modigliani ) if and only if f'= n . |
| 22 | In 1991 , Fujitsu loaned at no cost a prototype massively parallel computer , the AP1000 , to the Centre for Information Science Research at the Australian National University ( ANU ) . |
| 23 | I remember watching children dancing at a wedding a few weeks ago . |
| 24 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 25 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 26 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |
| 27 | Therefore try to arrive at the venue a day early . |
| 28 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 29 | A are you still intending to favour internal spending vis-a-vis acquisition opportunities on the basis that acquisitions are just too overpriced or with the eleven percent gearing do you think you will be er jumping at the bit a bit fairly soon ? |
| 30 | Lever stared at the parcel a moment , his eyes burning with curiosity , then looked up again , smiling . |