Example sentences of "at a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such conditions some of the turbine blades would glow at a dull red heat , and this represented the practical limit for ferritic steel : higher temperatures could only be attained with the use of special ( austenitic ) steels , which were in short supply in Britain at the time . |
| 2 | Indeed , his only idea of historical development was the process of adding to the number of the elect , which at a certain fixed target would bring history to an end . |
| 3 | To make up an improvisation using this material is part of their trade , and their habit of working at a certain familiar phrase and making it develop and grow produces music which we can all grasp and remember , especially if we know the performer 's style well . |
| 4 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 5 | Let us look at a real two-dimensional problem instead . |
| 6 | Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb at a black human rights office in Florida , the latest in a rash of mail bombings in the South that have killed a judge and a civil rights lawyer . |
| 7 | Safety factors include a neon indicator lamp to show when heat is switched on , and anti-scald cut-out with an automatic reset , which switches off the heater at a pre-set maximum temperature . |
| 8 | Since ambient temperature and humidity are subject to considerable variation , seasonal and diurnal and geographical , it is greatly preferable to store samples at a controlled constant temperature ( 20°C or 25°C ) rather than ‘ room temperature ’ . |
| 9 | At a European level tobacco companies are continuing to support the arts . |
| 10 | In the witch-ball , they all sat , monstrously swollen , eating at a warped white table that stretched forever . |
| 11 | At a regular monthly meeting on April 9 at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel , EC central bank governors approved a final draft version of the statutes for the proposed Eurofed which would be presented to the EC presidency for discussion . |
| 12 | ‘ Both the king and his brother , I understand , hear Mass at a small private chapel close to their apartments , ’ came the answer . |
| 13 | ‘ Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams are two good reasons why you should take a look at a small brittle show called Share My Lettuce … |
| 14 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 15 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 16 | The latter clause , however , had had the approval of negotiating bodies representing both potato merchants and farmers ; no blame for the infection of the seed potatoes was attributable to either side ; and , further , the buyers , if they had so wished , could have bought at a small extra cost , seed potatoes certified by inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 17 | It shows that the lighter side of entertainment , then as now , was most in demand : Madame Pompodour , The Three Graces , Nell Gwynne , Tonight 's the Night , and two unnamed shows ; or there was variety from the Alhambra , seasons of opera from the Old Vic and ( at a small extra charge ) from Covent Garden , and the usual Sunday church services . |
| 18 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 19 | His formative years were spent living at a small terraced house in , a house which still remains in use today . |
| 20 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 21 | Within 2 days of the start , an explosion had wrecked a drilling machine at a small non-union mine . |
| 22 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 23 | Ideal , say , for a university library building up stock — particularly if secondhand wants lists were being compiled — though someone revising the history stock at a small public library service point would look for a more selective tool . |
| 24 | However , when our car was serviced at a small back-street garage which we had never tried before , what really impressed us was not only the mechanical quality of the service , but the extra care taken . |
| 25 | I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather . |
| 26 | IN COLD and wet Twenties London , unhappy Hampstead housewife Lotty Wilkins ( Josie Lawrence ) spots a newspaper offer of ‘ wisteria and sunshine ’ at a small Italian castle through April . |
| 27 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 28 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 29 | However , when unveiled , this scheme met with only a lukewarm response ( and was disparagingly described by the prince of Wales as ‘ resembling a 1930s wireless set ’ ) and SAVE renewed its objection at a second public inquiry in 1988 . |
| 30 | An interim report is being prepared and this will form the basis of discussion at a second national seminar to be Friday 22 April 1988 at 1400 hours in the Crest Hotel , Queensferry Road , Edinburgh . |