Example sentences of "an [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who attack these interests commit moral wrongs on that society , and may indeed gain an advantage at the expense of members within that society . |
| 2 | There are two elements in an election at every level from parish council to national government — environment and organisation . |
| 3 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 4 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 5 | In the Adam period they were also shaped like urns , with ring handles and a knopped-lid , and an aperture at the spout to accommodate the ladle . |
| 6 | Dr Jean Robertson , a GP for 26 years , originally had little time for the notion of psychic healing until an experience at the funeral of her nineteen year-old daughter , who died of cancer four years ago . |
| 7 | This is visually achieved by emphasising some aspects of an experience at the expense of others . |
| 8 | Histological information was available in two of these patients ; both showed coexisting pancreatic abnormalities ( an 8 mm adenoma in the mid section of the pancreas with a dilated duct and an adenocarcinoma at the ampulla of Vater ) . |
| 9 | Right , Whitchurch seven , the , the report they want , where we 're getting to and there is an appendix at the proposals of course , for developing erm , a forum for Whitchurch er , with a range of activities that we could undertake to try to regenerate some confidence in Whitchurch . |
| 10 | If you can exercise just two or three times a week , for about half an hour at a time , you will keep your body in shape . |
| 11 | Throughout his life Edward had a passion for solitary swimming , often for an hour at a time , in the sea at Felpham in Sussex , in the small lakes in the Black Mountains , or the larger ones in the Lake District . |
| 12 | If you can exercise just two or three times a week , for about half an hour at a time , you will keep your body in shape . |
| 13 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 14 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 15 | I had five sittings , an hour at a time . |
| 16 | If possible , try to exercise at least two or three times a week for about half an hour at a time . |
| 17 | She can have a clock in view from now on , so we do n't go beyond half an hour at a time . |
| 18 | I said , oh I 'd only have the timer and it let's you do half an hour at a time |
| 19 | So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that . |
| 20 | Previously he had to spend an hour at a transit warehouse near Lyons waiting for clearance . |
| 21 | Sometimes the actors went back up to their dressing-rooms for an hour at a stretch while she and Geoffrey stood in for them , posing languidly at the fireplace or leaning back on the settee , twirling empty wine glasses . |
| 22 | That morning he 'd had an hour at a training centre ( ’ not just a fleeting photo opportunity ’ ) ; in the street he was collared by an elderly chap about the price of Guinness and tried in vain to stick a Vote For Me sticker on a recalcitrant toddler . |
| 23 | Allow , say , an hour at the scene , and with luck he would be home again before Nell woke and she need never know that he had been away . |
| 24 | About an hour at the Press . |
| 25 | The students were expected to spend half an hour at the beginning of each day in quiet study and prayer , and there were private interviews with the tutors about the candidates spiritual life , growth and development . |
| 26 | It was left for just for half an hour at the Westgate Centre in Oxford , which according to the AA is the one of the worst car parks in South East England for security . |
| 27 | Meet me in an hour at the top of the Opera House , on the tenth floor . |
| 28 | Twenty minutes , say — half an hour at the outside . " |
| 29 | She belted out classics for half an hour at the Stephen Talkhouse in Florida . |
| 30 | The speciality has always been genuinely private tuition , one-to-one coaching for anyone willing to pay ( £16 an hour at the end ) whether brilliant or hopeless . |