Example sentences of "[verb] at a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
| 4 | Yeltsin proposed at a meeting of his supporters on Nov. 28-29 that a pro-reform party or movement should be established , offering to participate in any such movement . |
| 5 | All the options came out filling Sweden 's energy needs at a cost of between $5.5 and $7 billion per year , or from 2 to 2.9 cents per kWh . |
| 6 | This applies particularly to public libraries , which aim to satisfy a wide range of reading needs at a number of different levels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
| 9 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |
| 10 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
| 11 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 12 | The figures for BBC 1 and BBC 2 were 10 per cent , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 2.5 per hour on BBC 1 , and two on BBC 2 . |
| 13 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 14 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 15 | Other electrocardiographic abnormalities , in addition to ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of more than 1/min , regarded as of ‘ sinister ’ importance — that is , markers of potentially serious complications are , ST segment increase or depression of more than 1 mm , supraventricular tachycardia ( three or more consecutive supraventricular extrasystoles at a rate of more than 130/min ) , second or third degree heart block , ventricular bigemini or trigemini , ventricular tachycardia , ventricular fibrillation or asystole . |
| 16 | The boundary between the core and the mantle is very sharp and is located at a depth of about 2900 km . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Subjects were asked to make rhyme judgments about consonants appearing at a rate of one per second . |
| 19 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 23 | The stand contained 4,100 seats , installed at a cost of 2d each , and incorporated the latest in spectator comfort . |
| 24 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 25 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
| 26 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 27 | Moreover , there is not so much to smell when you are flying high up and away from the scents and aromas that cling to the Earth — or even if , like man , your nose stands at a height of five or six feet , rarely bending towards the ground . |
| 28 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 29 | A major obstacle to a comprehensive Cambodian peace agreement was lifted at a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in New York on Sept. 19 [ see p. 38389 for Aug. 26-29 SNC meeting in Pattaya , Thailand ] . |
| 30 | In that way , a parent may seize the guide in an emergency and be reminded at a glance of the relevant facts . |