Example sentences of "at [noun] 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 | There had been no war in Europe between Britain and any continental power since the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo a century earlier , when the scale and power of armaments had been puny by comparison to those available in the early 1900s . |
| 22 | Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years . |
| 23 | FOR the second week running high quality furniture topped the price lists and at Andersons a mahogany D-end economy table was sold at £2,250 ; another economy table from the Georgian era for £1,700 and a pair of shaped top , cabriole leg specimen cabinets at £1,250 . |
| 24 | In October 1917 , minute 27640 states : The Acting General Manager mentioned that in connection with the aeroplanes which the Railway Companies had been asked to construct for the government , the L & NW had undertaken at Wolverton a share of the work , i.e. construction of wings . |
| 25 | Prices of North Sea Brent oil for May delivery marked time at $18.89 a barrel with June quotations 4 cents lower . |
| 26 | Hirst is on the mend after cracking his ankle at Highbury a fortnight ago , and Bright said : ‘ I like his style of play and feel we can work well together . |
| 27 | To handle these matters , there is at Wilton a team which is as smart as any in the City of London , and operates in futures markets in the same way . |
| 28 | At Torness a demonstration wind generator and solar panels have been installed at the Visitor Centre to raise public awareness of renewable technology . |
| 29 | At Brighton a month ago we watched Paddy Ashdown keep a tight enough grip on his party to ensure that it does not slip away into the political undergrowth . |
| 30 | 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 . |