Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophers , and especially philosophers of art , who say that visual perception involves something two-dimensional usually go on to say that it involves something else , a judgement whereby we get from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional , the world of solid objects at a distance from the perceiver . |
| 2 | The Left Book Club was a unique development in Britain , providing a high standard of political literature at a price which ensured its circulation to a wide audience . |
| 3 | The four island states of Dominica , St Lucia , St Vincent and the Grenadines , and Grenada , which form the geographical grouping of the Windward Islands , took tentative steps towards political unity at a meeting of the Windward Islands Regional Constituency Assembly ( RCA ) held on Sept. 7-8 in Roseau , the capital of Dominica . |
| 4 | These were ( 1 ) vehicle ( saline ) given by intragastric instillation or subcutaneous infusion followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 2 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; ( 3 ) bFGF given by an intragastric route at a dose of 100 µg/kg followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 4 ) sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen , ( 5 ) bFGF infused subcutaneously in a dose of 100 µg/kg/hour and sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg by intragastric instillation ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen ; and ( 6 ) intragastric bFGF ( 100 µg/ kg ) given in combination with sucralfate ( 100 mg/kg ) followed 30 minutes later by ulcerogen . |
| 5 | This traditionalist stress also received strong support at a rank and file level within the feminist LNA . |
| 6 | All patients were receiving oxygen via nasal prongs at a rate of less than 4 L per min . |
| 7 | Such a title , and a book written by a political figure at a time of great controversy … |
| 8 | No mobile units at a rave ? |
| 9 | He made a final , half-hearted attempt at a smile that could have been a yawn . |
| 10 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 11 | It felt quite pleasant sitting at a desk , being taught geography and physics again , and keeping an eye on our son . |
| 12 | If a judge has slept badly , has had an indigestible breakfast , tripped over the cat , has been roundly abused by his wife and scolded by his children , or if his mind has been distracted by the children 's school reports , a narrow defeat at a curling match or whatever , he may be temporarily off form . |
| 13 | Turbulent Italian passions leave the sedate Edwardians at a loss and create an oppressive sense of melodrama . |
| 14 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 15 | TOP brass from the emergency and armed services inspected would-be uniformed recruits at a passing out parade in Teesside . |
| 16 | To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library . |
| 17 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 18 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League Second Division were unanimously thrown out by England 's top clubs at a meeting in London yesterday . |
| 19 | The changes come after an 18-month review conducted by the chief fire officer , Mr Alf Thompson , and received all-party support at a committee meeting held behind closed doors . |
| 20 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 21 | Miss Van Den Berghen , of Hillingdon , west London , claimed sexual discrimination at a south London tribunal yesterday against Nabarro Nathanson , secretarial agency Eagle Place Services , and Mr Hamnett , after being dismissed from her job three months after the lunch . |
| 22 | the masterpiece of tactics and strategy of the Great German General Staff , so different to the brutal French attempts at a breakthrough … . |
| 23 | At the core of this debate is the precariousness of state arts funding throughout the United States , and the threat of reductions in public funding at a time when cutting the government 's colossal budget deficit is a national priority . |
| 24 | This difference in approach and method was noted at a very different level at a seminar on the availability , management and application of learning resources in teacher education ( CET 1975 : 17 ) : |
| 25 | About half a mile downstream on the south side of the valley of the River Coln ( fig. 11.1 ) a massive square-shaped building at a place called ‘ The Old Quarry ’ was first noticed in 1864 and investigated in 1925 — 6 by St Clair Baddeley . |
| 26 | The plan for a six-week display in a buffet at Newcastle upon Tyne 's Central Station was derailed after a duty manager looked at the pictures by a French photographer at a preview . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 28 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 29 | This weekend road safety officers will offer free checks at a car safety centre in Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | ( vi ) Mount samples in Depex , store at 4 C , and analyse them within 2 weeks on an integrating microdensitometer ( e.g. Vickers M85 ) by measuring light absorption at a wavelength of 560 mm . |