Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 2 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 3 | MR JOHN Heddle , the Conservative MP for Mid Staffordshire , was found dead in his car yesterday at a chalk pit near Canterbury , Kent . |
| 4 | Sometimes he thought that he 'd have liked nothing more than to be like Michael of the tarmac boys , gap-toothed and thick-headed and with no greater concern than that of pissing his money away at a speed roughly equal to that at which he made it , but he had to make do with the hand that he 'd been dealt — thin-skinned and solitary , one of nature 's observers . |
| 5 | Seeing the Chairman tonight at a function . ’ |
| 6 | Although it was a large fire , she had never known it have more than one bar on at a time . |
| 7 | Officers and firemen found the blazing vehicle finally at a halt , with the crew desperately trying to rescue equipment . |
| 8 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
| 9 | THERE has never been a better time to build a dream home at a bargain price . |
| 10 | Eva had pretended she would have to do office work until after lunch on the Sunday , when in fact she had wanted to have lunch out at a cafe with a girlfriend . |
| 11 | But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen . |
| 12 | But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen . |
| 13 | Two miles further on , he pointed out of the window again at a field of cows , saying something in his unintelligible language . |
| 14 | We are not going to push our political advantage home at a moment like this … |
| 15 | ONE OF Britain 's most powerful and modern locomotives was named The Scotsman yesterday at a ceremony in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station . |
| 16 | A MINER armed with a pistol staged a nine-hour protest sit-in yesterday at a pit threatened with closure . |
| 17 | The idea that a runner can win more by not trying too hard is not likely to be well received in the hard-bitten commercial world of sports retailing , but if the winter miles are currently very wearisome and every race is a struggle to gain a few seconds , you might try leaving your watch off at a race or two and see if the Zarei approach puts a bit of the enjoyment back into running . |
| 18 | Councillors reached the decision yesterday at a meeting of the policy and resources committee . |
| 19 | The young merchant 's wife , her old husband away at a Guild meeting , had been delighted to see her amorous gallant . |
| 20 | They do n't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something . ’ |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSelect is due to make its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface announcement today at a gala in California with IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc there as licensees and SunSoft Inc saying it will bundle the software with Solaris . |
| 22 | And this has been brought about to enhance your safety , not only when you 're at your place of work , but when you 're out and enjoying your social evening either at a theatre , a pub , a club or the cinema or wherever you may be . |
| 23 | With peeled veneer , a round log is heated in a steam pit for about twenty-four hours and then set up and rotated in a lathe in which a long knife peels the veneer circumferentially at a speed which is wonderful to watch . |
| 24 | Separated elements of electricity were supposed to act on each other instantaneously at a distance across empty space with a force depending on the separation and the motion of the elements . |
| 25 | Last night it was shown for one night only at a charity screening for St. Edward 's School in Oxford . |
| 26 | ‘ His second offence was kicking the ball away at a free-kick . ’ |
| 27 | As the Press and television cameras waited a short distance away at a community centre , the coach slipped quietly into Niddrie Mains Drive and on to Wauchope Terrace . |
| 28 | THE long-held assumption that beef producers are today breeding better and more productive cattle and that farm management is of the highest order , received a setback yesterday at a seminar for veterinarians organised by Edinburgh University 's veterinary faculty . |
| 29 | A HUSBAND drove for six hours before realising he 'd left his wife behind at a motorway service cafe — 450 miles back . |
| 30 | As was noted at a recent conference ‘ Cooperatives are real work … not just a day out at a course ! ’ . |