Example sentences of "at a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a tumultuous meeting between Kohl and the east German party leaders on Aug. 30 , de Maizière described Rühe 's accusations as unacceptable and offered his resignation , which at that stage was rejected . |
| 2 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 3 | Arrive at your hotel anytime after midday and then meet your fellow weekenders at a pre-dinner reception at 7.00 pm followed by a leisurely dinner . |
| 4 | Leicester , removed from the Pilkington Cup on Saturday , bravely chipped away at a 15-9 lead throughout the second half and , with an hour gone , led by a point ( 16-15 ) . |
| 5 | We learn from experience that certain visible appearances are connected with tactile objects of a certain size at a certain distance from us . |
| 6 | The epitomist himself emphasizes that he is writing at a certain distance from the events because he concludes his story with the words : " From this time Jerusalem has been in the possession of the Jews . " |
| 7 | Criticism , on the other hand , places the critic at a certain distance from the work . |
| 8 | I use the rear brake , I 'm using my knee and I 'm using a lot of upper body weight to keep my weight at a certain angle to the bike . ’ |
| 9 | They were , are paid at a certain percentage of their incurred costs well below what it has actually cost them , until they demonstrate an achievement at a particular milestone and then the percentage is increased and er . |
| 10 | The FRA , an agreement as to the level of LIBOR at a certain date in the future , often plays a crucial role in such structured deals . |
| 11 | If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer . |
| 12 | Training will have made dancers more adept at a certain style of dance and they usually show preference fur a certain type of step : elevation , pointe work , pirouettes or whatever . |
| 13 | At a certain level of abstraction there is a sense in which any speech processing mechanism is trying to solve the same search problem ( see Goodman & Reddy 1980 ) . |
| 14 | A pleasing example of this was the ‘ evening gun ’ fired by British artillery with clockwork regularity at a certain part of the line . |
| 15 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |
| 16 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 17 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 18 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 19 | The next necessary act in this play is for the two to reassure each other of their discretion ; from the monk : And from the wife : Agreement on the sexual exchange is thus sealed : They can then indulge themselves in filling out the details of their play — and anticipating the events of the act to come — at a certain amount of leisure . |
| 20 | This process may lead at a certain stage to the establishment of parties . " |
| 21 | Transformation : E. coli at a certain stage of their growth cycle can , after treatment with chemicals such as calcium chloride or rubidium chloride , take up raw DNA ( for example , DNA purified in the laboratory ) and , if it contains appropriate sequences , will incorporate them into their own genomes . |
| 22 | His old friend Barfield ruefully suggested that ‘ at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual animus taking stock of his moral faults … |
| 23 | At a certain stage in the evening Modigliani would decide to undress , unravelling the long red scarf he wore around his waist in theatrical fashion . |
| 24 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 25 | A particular crisis , easily mistaken for a failure of nerve , overtakes Scottish writers at a certain stage in their careers . |
| 26 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |
| 27 | However the map produced by the SYMAP/ASPEX package contains a puzzling kink at a certain point on the area axis . |
| 28 | At a certain point in a writer 's career , he or she may want to set up his or her own publishing company . |
| 29 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 30 | If terms like ‘ affective psychosis ’ , ‘ schizophrenia ’ and ‘ schizoaffective disorder ’ have a use , therefore , it is merely as labels of convenience , as shorthand descriptors of the flavour of a given individual 's form of insanity — and even then often only at a certain point in time and subject to qualifications as to the severity of disability . |