Example sentences of "at [adj] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 2 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 3 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 6 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 7 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a single parent family she tried to set up her own business , but selling jam at 2/6 a pot and crocheting hats was not a great success , particularly while being visited by a social worker wearing diamonds . |
| 10 | It is then asked that the witnesses be examined either in accordance with a given list of questions , which will have been drafted by the applicant party , or regarding certain matters summarised in the letter of request itself ; an example might be ‘ a road traffic accident believed to have taken place in the sight of the witness at such-and-such a place and time ’ . |
| 11 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 12 | Moxon and Byas took advantage of some mediocre bowling to score at five an over and lay the foundations for Yorkshire 's first limited overs score of more than 200 this season . |
| 13 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 14 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 15 | There was a set dinner for nine at 40 a head and an unlimited supply of Mateus Rose , a pink Portuguese wine curiously attractive to women . |
| 16 | Myers estimates a rate of loss of species from tropical rain forest at 10000 a year and compares this to a major ‘ evolutionary spasm ’ , but unlike previous ones such as the end of the dinosaurs , the present phase has the plants as well as the animals in decline . |
| 17 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 18 | It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance . |
| 19 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 20 | She arrived at last an hour or so later , swerving up in her blue sports car , its boot piled with a large amount of luggage . |
| 21 | For patients with severe hypertension and an expectation of life of months or at most a year or two , the benefits of lowering the blood pressure were soon seen . |