Example sentences of "their [noun] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , the parents told their story at a public meeting in the village hall in St Margaret 's Hope , a little fishing village on the edge of Scapa Flow . |
| 2 | It was an age in which all classes of society were expanding , in which men from every walk of life who enjoyed adventure and travel could find new opportunities as merchants to invest their talents at a large rate of interest . |
| 3 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 4 | A high cost of capital is a signal that investors do not trust banks to earn a reasonable return on their money at a reasonable risk . |
| 5 | Representatives of 11 companies operating at Aberdeen Seafood Park are to spend five days promoting their products at a special exhibition in Aberdeen 's twin city of Clermont Ferrand , near Lyons . |
| 6 | They outlined their plans at an initial workshop on ‘ Television and Worship ’ which was held in Lage Vuursche , Netherlands , 27 April-2 May . |
| 7 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 8 | They were intended to provide a rapid procedure under which objectors would have no right to state their case at a public inquiry , and the commission was not required to disclose the purpose for which the land was needed . |
| 9 | If the values of UK purchases of dollars and of US purchases of sterling are roughly equal , dealers in the foreign exchange market will be able to balance their books at a forward rate that is equal to the expected future spot rate . |
| 10 | It was therefore natural for Keynes 's interpreters to infer that the supply curve of labour was horizontal at an arbitrarily given money wage rate for all levels of employment up to full employment : after all , an implication of the unwillingness of workers to accept a wage cut is that they are refusing to supply their labour at a lower money wage . |
| 11 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 12 | He attacked the couple as they cuddled in their car at a remote beauty spot . |
| 13 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 14 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 15 | However , they are so often held back with comments such as ‘ you are too young ’ , ‘ we can not trust you ’ , ‘ your time will come ’ — time and time again I have heard the same complaint by those who have achieved their goals at an early age . |
| 16 | Teams from the whole of Europe concentrate their work at a single lab in southern England where a huge torus of magnets containing gas at 100 million degrees tries to reproduce the Sun 's power . |
| 17 | Some of the world 's finest quilt-makers are displaying their work at an annual show . |
| 18 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 19 | The polytechnic plans to build a hostel on the Morrell-Pollock site in North Oxford , and tonight , local residents will have the chance to talk about their proposal at a public meeting . |
| 20 | The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before . |
| 21 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 22 | In this , its heyday , the King 's Road fluttered , like a gypsy encampment , with hastily-dyed finery , while stage folk emerged from their beds at a given hour , to patrol the long pavements between Sloane Square and the Town Hall . |
| 23 | She and her husband eat en famille with their guests at a circular Georgian , candlelit table . |
| 24 | This was a good example , Dexter thought , of Blanche being unwilling to exclude someone from their investigation at an early stage so that they could concentrate their efforts . |
| 25 | The people on the pavements were always sprucely dressed , they pushed their prams or followed their dogs at a leisurely , unhurried pace ; the cars purred quietly on the smooth roads ; there was always somebody playing at the Tennis Club . |
| 26 | My father reported that the Shoan leaders estimated their troops at a hundred and twelve thousand , but he warned the Foreign Office that they tended to count the number at a chief 's disposal rather than how many he could effectively assemble . |
| 27 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 28 | Eightteen per cent continue their studies at a further education college , while 28pc enter a youth training programme . |
| 29 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |
| 30 | There , in the spring , they lay their eggs at a great depth and the minute larvae float up to the more surface waters with the onset of summer . |