Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 2 | Yes , I think also how you feel it could be improved would be very relevant and how you would feel in the context of a pensioners meeting , an annual meeting like shareholders have in companies and how you if you have any views on how such a meeting might be managed in relation to the deferred pensioners interests , the existing pensioners interests , the employees interest and obviously the company 's interest being adequately reflected at such a meeting but I think we would welcome that aspect . |
| 3 | Kidner much perturbed at such a suggestion . |
| 4 | However , if the inhibitor was injected at such a time that RNA synthesis was inhibited while the animals were being trained on the maze , then they failed to remember it when tested on it later . |
| 5 | The total amount of ‘ common funding ’ is set at such a level that a sum of money is left in the pool for furnishing the ‘ further funding ’ element . |
| 6 | Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc . |
| 7 | The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down . |
| 8 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 9 | However , Turner does n't believe that he would have arrived at such a conclusion if he had continued to live and write in Ireland . |
| 10 | However , the principle can readily be seen that the salary can be cast at such a level that no or little tax is paid at a rate above the basic rate of income tax . |
| 11 | He added that the Social Work Department could not be represented at such a meeting . |
| 12 | Other authors , e.g. Challinor ( 1949 ) , have expressed quite opposite views , maintaining that the wavecut bench is cut at such a level as not to impede the action of the waves at the foot of the cliff , so that long continued marine planation may occur . |
| 13 | The family celebration , at his grandmother 's house where they frequently met , was enjoyable — to a point , but the loss of his father could only be exacerbated at such a time . |
| 14 | Some of the water molecules would be split at such a temperature and would be available for chemical or physical activity as soon as the bubble burst . |
| 15 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 16 | But they concern themselves primarily with discussing the application of nuclear physics , and I can not see that the work of a biologist could profitably be discussed at such a conference , and certainly not by me . |
| 17 | Angry at being put at such a disadvantage , Shaughnessy twice confronted Aviv about the leak , and twice Aviv denied having had anything to do it . |
| 18 | That power station is the biggest sulphur emitter in Britain , and any investment in plant to get rid of sulphur emissions should be directed at such a power station . |
| 19 | Spooks in films could pass unrecognized through airports , and North sometimes gave out instructions that if he was spotted at such-and-such a place , he should not be acknowledged . |
| 20 | Taken at such a speed both flanking movements all too easily sound gabbled and thick . |
| 21 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 22 | A return to work was negotiated under the conditions prevailing before the strike had begun so the union had prevented a further round of wage reductions ; but this was achieved at such a cost as to convince the leadership of the impossibility of organizing effective strike action in agriculture . |
| 23 | It should be more clearly aimed at such a market , for it has pretensions otherwise . |