Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
2 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |
3 | The cyclists carried a letter of introduction from Bishop Brewer which helped them secure accommodation at a few churches along the way , including the Cathedrals at Assisi and Chartres . |
4 | Well let's have a look at a few figures then , as to why we do need to consider it . |
5 | Erm just before we break , erm it might be worthwhile just having a look at a few examples . |
6 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
7 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |
8 | In this way , one of the best Home Secretaries of the post-war era was abruptly removed from the Home Office at a few hours notice , leaving behind a collection of unfinished artefacts to be completed by other hands . |
9 | Police and fire chiefs are investigating the cause of blaze at a former school at the old Linton School in Linton , near Grassington . |
10 | A BLAZE at a former bus depot is being treated as arson . |
11 | Firefighters tackling a serious blaze at a former children 's home in Kennelwood Avenue , Northwood , Kirkby , were pelted with broken bricks and stones . |