Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier .
2 ( Houses now have bathrooms and inside toilets , instead of a garden privy or a toilet at the bottom of the yard . )
3 Or a qualification at the same level which pre-dates the above .
4 Or a qualification at the same level which predates the above
5 It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed .
6 She did n't know if women preferred poetry or flowers or a night at the movies .
7 There was just enough time for a picnic at Llanfair Caereinion , or a look at the workshops according to taste , before we commenced the return journey .
8 There is a rich seam of ‘ Europeanism ’ running through fascist thought , as a quick perusal of Nazi newspapers or a glance at the memoirs of British fascists like Diana Mosley reveals .
9 ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others .
10 The proverbial " Never venture , never win " is pronounced with a rise or a fall/rise at the word " venture " .
11 Also , no person can be a member of the Appeal Committee if they are a parent or a teacher at the school concerned .
12 OK , you ca n't buy a hand bag on the Rue de Rivoli or a box at the opera but you do n't have to skimp on the house red .
13 Although a notice at the entrance to the Room indicated that the Survey was being conducted , and invited visitors to co-operate by completing a questionnaire , a pilot survey in 1980 had shown that a satisfactory response rate could be obtained only if this was reinforced by a personal approach to visitors .
14 The end result is an animal that looks very much like some kinds of oyster , although a glance at the internal feeding structures shows at once that they are brachiopods , unrelated to the bivalves they superficially resemble .
15 Yes , it is unsaleable at this price of £4914.91 but can be made saleable if the price is adjusted so that a return at the new , higher , current rate of return can be earned .
16 An example is provided by one Parkinson , a Victorian clean-up campaigner , whose moral objection to " public dancing " led him to allege that a ballet at the Royal Aquarium had involved a Japanese female catching a butterfly " in the most indecent place you could possibly imagine . "
17 FAB-MS has also succeeded in sequencing peptides that could not be analysed any other way — for example a toxin from Australia that a group at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry at Cambridge University sequenced recently .
18 For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’
19 At the same time , an experienced solicitor may well be able to give a better legal opinion and be a far better advocate than a beginner at the Bar .
20 It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week .
21 For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages .
22 This is better than a night at the Follies .
23 The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London .
24 Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life .
25 People living in new housing , whether estates , flats or garden cities , were more satisfied with their houses and neighbourhoods than were those living in the older areas , although there was more than a hint at the loss of street-corner sociability .
26 He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most .
27 KEVIN McKeever has been transfer-listed by Glentoran after less than a season at the Oval .
28 For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street .
29 A tall , brown iron cylinder with a wheel and a dial at the top stood beside him .
30 But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope .
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