Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the low end a 17-inch monochrome ( 1152 x 900 ) goes for $2,600 , a 17-inch grey scale ( 1152 x 900 ) for $3,100 , a 14-inch colour ( 1024 x 768 ) for $3,100 and a 17-inch high-resolution colour ( 1280 x 1024 ) for $5,000 . |
| 2 | At the present day a large survey that was carried out by East Sussex County Council in the nineteen seventies , mostly looking at different maps of different ages and the position of the coast on different maps , showed that the average rate of erosion is between point three and point five metres per year . |
| 3 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |
| 4 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 5 | The State Department 's Policy Planning Staff noted on 20 November 1951 : We have , in fact , at the present time a special relationship with the U.K. which involves consultation between us on a wide range of matters of joint concern . |
| 6 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 7 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 8 | In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane . |
| 9 | So at the right price a property will sell . |
| 10 | As Victor shook his head in despair at the incorrigible woman a slim black-leathered silhouette came through the door . |
| 11 | And at the appointed hour a bell is heard , |
| 12 | In front of the house was a large square lawn that needed cutting , and at the far side a row of straggly flowers , mostly lupins , with some poppies and columbines . |
| 13 | At the far end a rocky promontory extended into deep water — a promising place for snorkelling . |
| 14 | At the far end a number of tools , harnesses , tack and the like are scattered about — one harness still in good repair . |
| 15 | At the far end a bittern stood — just as it does in all the books , just as it does in all those television nature films : in bizarre ‘ bittern-stance ’ . |
| 16 | The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike . |
| 17 | At one end is a row of tenements , in the middle are stone family houses and at the far end a council-run hostel for people with alcohol-related problems . |
| 18 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 19 | At the economic level a similar commitment was given to support the " profound readjustment " of the region 's economies in order to achieve recovery and growth . |
| 20 | At the inquest held at the Black Boy a verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner and jury . |
| 21 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 22 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 23 | At the regional scale a much more varied picture of bus services emerges . |
| 24 | Mach stared at the other man a moment , wide-eyed , wondering , as he had so often lately , how DeVore came to know so much . |
| 25 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 26 | At the other end a beardless Zeus in near-profile brandishes a thunderbolt against a kneeling figure who again turns his bearded face towards us , and in the angle beyond must have lain another corpse . |
| 27 | but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ? |
| 28 | Thus there are in the cytoplasm many different kinds of tRNA molecule , each kind being characterized by two ‘ labels ’ : at one end is the anticodon ( which pairs with a codon in the message ) , and at the other end an attachment site for an amino acid ( which is recognized by an enzyme carrying that particular amino acid ) . |
| 29 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 30 | Set at right angles to one side of the fireplace was a two-seat wooden settle , and at the other side a much larger leather couch . |