Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family is celebrating more than five hundred years of work at a local docks . |
| 2 | I once cut my wrist on a guillotine machine at a picture-frame makers where I was working . |
| 3 | WITHIN a few hours of arriving in Cape Town yesterday morning , the Scotland squad had a training and nets session at a local boys ' school where the facilities were superb . |
| 4 | One CSE Grade 1 is all he could muster from school , so , fired by the grim prospect of a factory job , he went to a college of further education where he gained four ‘ O ’ levels after a year and then took a job at a wholesale jewellers , where they were n't too optimistic about his chances of promotion . |
| 5 | His reward — a £200 cheque , an engraved paperweight and a certificate — was presented to him by Colonel Douglas Spratt , President of the Edinburgh branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing at a special students ‘ evening . |
| 6 | Their chairman would have the support of both the Secretary of State and the LEA in discouraging , and ultimately forbidding , discussion of the performance of an individual pupil or teacher at an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no point in going into a school library now , ’ said a well known author at a recent Arts Council seminar . |
| 8 | ALAN DAVIES is reportedly keen to repeat the experiment of last September when a ‘ warm-up ’ match was played against the French on a balmy September evening at a floodlit Arms park . |
| 9 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 10 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 11 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 12 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 13 | The Abingdon Herald led on village anger at a chemical firms plans . |
| 14 | CRISANTO ESPANA , the Belfast-based Venezuelan WBA welterweight champion , was unable to receive his victor 's belt at a scheduled awards ceremony in Caracas last night because it was stolen at gunpoint from a boxing official . |
| 15 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |
| 16 | One Vietnamese was killed and four received gunshot wounds in an incident at a foreign workers ' hostel in Sofia on March 17 . |
| 17 | They later opened fire with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle at a pursuing police car before abandoning their Sierra car in a field and disappearing into the countryside , Mr Nutting said . |
| 18 | With the roar of the crowd at a Blue Jays baseball game ? |
| 19 | In England and Wales this is done by the coroner 's court , as indeed it is in some States in the USA and in Canada , and in Scotland it is the procurator fiscal who looks into the matter and will , if he considers it to be an appropriate case , raise the matter at a fatal accidents inquiry in the sheriff 's court . |
| 20 | On stand duty at a recent careers convention , my distant thoughts were interrupted by approach of a young bloke enquiring as to where he could find PCL . |
| 21 | If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time . |
| 22 | Andy is a store detective at a major women 's clothes store in north London . |
| 23 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 24 | After an appeal at a Qualified Teachers ' Training Day money is now available to help those Teachers who have classes in this category as it is realised that in some cases it is impossible for these people to be asked for money . |