Example sentences of "at [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At present a person can take a few driving lessons and pass a driving test and he is then free to purchase any type of car they can afford , regardless of how powerful that car is .
2 And so it is my conclusion that you are at present a man without funds , clearly ignorant of the axiom that ‘ there is no such thing as a free lunch ’ . ’
3 At present a quarter of Europe 's rivers fall below community standards .
4 At present a hotel has to have a peak demand of over one megawatt , a tall order , but in March 1994 — if not earlier — users with a 100kW demand will be given shopping freedom .
5 It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . '
6 They were Miss Margaret ( Peggy ) Herbison , who is the oldest surviving Scottish woman MP , having served in the Labour Party cabinet in the 1960s ; Councillor Sheila Ritchie , who has been a Liberal Democrat councillor in Gordon for a number of years and is at present a member of the party 's National Executive Committee ; and Miss Ann Hay , who is an influential key organiser for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association in Edinburgh .
7 At present a budget album studio , Bow Lane have big plans for the next twelve months , including the upgrading of the outboard gear and the installation of a revolutionary new engineer-friendly digital console and direct-to-disc digital recorder .
8 At present a bottle , for example , can be made from several different types of plastic which would have to be separated out before recycling .
9 In that long , warm , friendly space there were animals worth at present a total of many millions of Canadian dollars : worth more if any of them won at Winnipeg or Vancouver .
10 The other was Niccolò vander Poele , recently arrested , and at present a prisoner .
11 ( Hons. ) degree from the University of Leicester and is at present a supply teacher to Surrey County Council , teaching French and German .
12 Therese said Miss Grimsilk was a very nice lady who is at present a trifle unhappy .
13 I am at present a student rep in Bangor .
14 Even if you are not at present a tenant of public landlord but you have a pressing need to move , your local authority might be prepared to nominate you .
15 The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive ( which is headed by a President elected for four years , at present a Republican ) , the legislative branch ( Congress , which comprises a Senate of 100 members and a House of Representatives of 435 members , both of which are at present controlled by the Democratic Party ) and the judicial branch ( headed by the Supreme Court ) .
16 He went on to give an account of his education at Eton School and then at King 's College , Cambridge ‘ of which society I am at present a Fellow and from which University I have derived my medical Honors ’ .
17 Leith is at present a producer in the BBC ( Bristol ) .
18 At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland .
19 If our records show you have goods on appro at present a list if attached .
20 However , it is not at present a routine matter to extend such measurements over an appreciable portion even of one vibration-rotation band .
21 He remains at heart a boy who grew up on a busy farm at St Martin 's , 14 miles from Llanymynech , the course on which as a seven-year-old he first took a golf club in his hands .
22 He remained at heart a scholar , rising at 5 a.m. each day to keep up with his reading of new books from abroad and often having Continental scholars staying with him , under whose influence he came to have an extreme Reformist attitude to the Mass .
23 The target of the revolutionary writer 's attentions is a reading public readily and willingly collaborating in its own mystifications , yet retaining at heart a desire for cultural enlightenment and refusing adamantly to be patronised or taken in by glib and misguided preaching .
24 At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half .
25 At the start of intubation and at extubation a marker button on the Holter monitor was pressed to show accurately the beginning and end of the gastroscopy .
26 After visualisation of the stricture at cholangiography a guide wire was inserted across the stricture followed by an endoscopic transpapillary endoprosthesis ( 10 Fr ( French gauge ) , Meadox Surgimed ) .
27 He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life .
28 Whether Josquin and his fellow Northerners active in Italy are properly to be regarded as ‘ Renaissance ’ figures , a question that he ponders at some length , is at bottom a non-issue .
29 At marriage a woman 's legal identity was submerged in that of her husband .
30 God , he thought , I really must give the beer at lunch a miss .
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