Example sentences of "at a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
2 | Most white people , ’ Hall told Time , ‘ have never been to a party at a black person 's house . |
3 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
4 | At a final lawyers ' meeting , it was at last agreed that Oldfield 's royalties should be increased , in varying amounts according to territories . |
5 | On November 16 , 1990 , at a stormy shareholders ' general meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull , Le Roux 's house of cards came tumbling down . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Yet at a poor family 's most crucial and most public celebrations , at a marriage or at the birth of a male child , the absence of a hijra would almost invalidate the whole ceremony . |
8 | Andy is a store detective at a major women 's clothes store in north London . |
9 | Anything to break the monotony of waiting , yet being at a split second 's notice to move , to any incident , anywhere in the city . |
10 | Only thoughts , actions , moves and attacks which have been practised until they are second nature will be available at a split second 's notice . |
11 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
12 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
13 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
14 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
15 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
16 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
17 | Mr Johnson gave the two girls up to six allergy tablets , after a row with his wife at a New Year 's party . |
18 | Without doubt giving customers and crew that good feeling , it also provided a photo-opportunity at a recent visitor 's day . |
19 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
20 | Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders ' institution for robbery . |
21 | They were guests at a young offenders ' institution … and found the inmates were one of the most appreciative audiences they 'd ever had . |
22 | However , there were attempts at a private member 's bill : the Rape ( Anonymity of Victims ) Bill was introduced by Mr F.P. Crowder , and there was another in 1975 by Jack Ashley , stemming from concern that raped women were not reporting the crime because of fear of press publicity . |
23 | It was the AMA 's Peter Westland who , at a private King 's fund College seminar on phase two of community care implementation last April , called on Wordsworth to help express his fears about care management 's impact on service users . |
24 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
25 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
26 | When the dielectric loss factor is measured at a characteristic frequency ο max and a given temperature , it passes through a maximum when a relaxation occurs , and the dipole relaxation time , can be obtained . |
27 | Photos of youngsters at a National Children 's Home project taken by the star adorn six fundraising BT phonecards . |
28 | If we add component A to component B at a constant temperature T4 , A will dissolve in B to form a solution until point X is reached . |
29 | She now teaches at a local girls ' school where she finds the all-female staff ‘ extremely supportive of each other ’ . |
30 | STAFF and students at a local boys ' school are preparing to thrill audiences with their latest drama . |