Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He took 155 wickets for England at an average of 26.16 , his best series being during the MCC tour of Australia in 1924–5 when he took 38 wickets , at that time a record for England versus Australia . |
| 32 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |
| 33 | You got to have a chauffeur , you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to make it worth me while coming off dole at forty pound a week . |
| 34 | The first wine we order is off , the second arrives , with apologies , unchilled — while at another table a woman complains her bottle of red is too warm . |
| 35 | At another place a wife is bidding good-bye to a husband whom duty calls hence . |
| 36 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 37 | Ali : ‘ I DJed at this event a while ago and the place was full of goths . |
| 38 | At this juncture a codicil must be inserted . |
| 39 | At this juncture a number of assumptions regarding man 's rationally-ordered consciousness were being of course challenged . |
| 40 | Ex hypothesi there is at this stage a case to answer and it would , in our view , be an abuse of process for the prosecution to discontinue without leave . |
| 41 | Expenditure was £20.1 billion in January and £199.5 billion in the year to date , compared with £19.5 billion and £176.4 billion at this stage a year ago . |
| 42 | At this stage a cynic might well say that even if we adopted a United States type of approach the courts would simply manipulate the labels . |
| 43 | At this stage a pattern may begin to emerge . |
| 44 | At this point a Company , limited by guarantee , Steamport Southport Limited was formed to administer the site . |
| 45 | At this point a Union flag was waved by loyalists at the foot of Carlisle Road and there was a surge forward by DCAC supporters , but the stewards restrained them . |
| 46 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 47 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 48 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 49 | At this point a puce publican , determined to make the scene a battle-ground of the sexes , threatened the women with the law . |
| 50 | At this point a woman may be glad to be released , temporarily , from the struggle with her individual problems , and to be renewed by the light that her sisters generate . |
| 51 | At this point a number of options are available , using the same technique , a ring of vertical segments can be assembled to give the work depth . |
| 52 | At this point a wag from the back of the large audience called out " the only trouble is that it would only be 2½″ long ! " |
| 53 | At this point a tape of data containing information about an area of some 40 000 sq . |
| 54 | At this point a job that I had thought a burden , turned out to be a fairy godmother 's wand . |
| 55 | At this point a protester shouted to Alderman Hegarty , ‘ I do not agree with your personal politics , but take the chair . ’ |
| 56 | Rokovssky , at this moment a man of curses and oaths , knew he had to send a telegram to Marcelle Fayette in the morning . |
| 57 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 58 | At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior . |
| 59 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 60 | ( See the earliest drawing ) , was unsatisfactory , so in September 1908 a trial tee was constructed somewhere near what is now the ladies ' winter tee on the 16th , the 17th green being more or less as we know today , although at this time a twin green with the first . |