Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supply of wool from England to Flanders provided the main economic link between the two areas ; and it is not surprising to find a merchant financier with a base at each end of this trade . |
| 2 | The kind of woman I would n't mind having around if I was in trouble though she might be a bit of a trial at other times . |
| 3 | Fortunately for Middlesbrough , scout Barrie Geldart stepped on the scene and arranged a trial at Ayresome Park . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , landing in heavily greased jerseys and long-john underwear , with a revolver in a supposedly waterproof packet and carrying the waterproofed torch and compass , was difficult enough after several days in the confined quarters of submarine HMS Triumph while she made a periscope survey of Rhodes ' beaches , often having to dive below 60 feet ( 18m ) , because in these clear waters a submarine at shallower depth is plainly seen from the air . |
| 5 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 6 | Sometimes , especially when the sun was low and blinding , I could not tell whether a dark shape was a rock a hundred yards away or a crag at three miles . |
| 7 | On this occasion , the guests were predominantly French , the music predominantly English and the dinner a sit-down at small tables of eight . |
| 8 | In order to make the best of a case at this stage most claimants will need advice and assistance because preparing a case for appeal involves three tasks : establishing the facts of the case , understanding the applicable legal rules and integrating facts and law in a well-constructed argument which includes meeting the reasons put forward by the adjudication officer for denying the claim . |
| 9 | It is well established that the court will only exercise its power to dismiss a case at this stage in exceptional circumstances . |
| 10 | Anthony Gittens , secretary of the Britons from 1949 to 1973 and a member since 1924 , was a prominent member of the IFL in the 1930s and opened a branch at Kentish Town in London . |
| 11 | May we have a debate next week or as soon as possible to consider whether we should have a referendum at any stage and in what circumstances ? |
| 12 | He hopes his designs will be a winner at indoor kart arenas throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 14 | Independence , in so far as this entailed freedom from obligation to a politician , was thus restricted to men with independent wealth and few dependents , but for most freeholders the friendship of a politician was a necessity at some point in their lives . |
| 15 | I think if we go through and have a look at these other ones that Jenny has done and you make a decision at that point as to whether . |
| 16 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 17 | The teacher does not rush the class towards a decision at this point , but asks them to think very carefully before making up their minds . |
| 18 | It may be unconscious , but we 've made a decision at some stage about how it 's going to be . |
| 19 | Of course , it was necessary to come to a decision at some point , and to do this the system relied primarily on the acoustic probability scores attached to each labelling . |
| 20 | All the members of the Forum say they want to avoid a split at this month 's conference ; but most now reckon a split is unavoidable . |
| 21 | To display the jewelled egg , knot a thread at one end , run it through a pretty bead , up through the egg , through another bead or two and then make a loop with the top to hang the egg . |
| 22 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at relational database rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 ’ . |
| 23 | Then it liked a little higher , flattened out and set a course at sub-radar altitude . |
| 24 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 25 | And now he was offered a professorship at another university . |
| 26 | Erm can you think of a one metal which is n't a solid at normal temperatures ? |
| 27 | All these provisions apply to listed buildings ( of which in 1985 there were 380,000 in England , 33,000 in Scotland , and 10,600 in Wales ) but the secretary of state has power to list a building at any time , and local authorities can serve a ‘ building preservation notice ’ on an unlisted building ; this has the effect of protecting the building for six months , thus giving time for considering whether or not it should be listed . |
| 28 | The defendant in a fixed date action is permitted to submit a defence at any point before the return day , but if it is outside the 14 day period he or she may have to meet any costs incurred as a result of the delay . |
| 29 | A narrow view would be that if contributory negligence was not a defence at common law , then it will not be available under the Act . |
| 30 | The reason is not technical difficulty or avalanches , but the fact that the normal route involves reaching a ridge at 7,000 metres which is no less than four kilometres away from the summit pyramid . |