Example sentences of "at [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Nichol has a lot of knowledge in the fields of mental health and this is one area we have wanted to look at for a while . ’ |
| 3 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 4 | This last was to acknowledge Charles , whom she looked at for a moment with suspicion . |
| 5 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 6 | It took eight minutes , outside of the three minutes aimed at for a wait at ticket offices , but the charter makes no distinction or offer of compensation for that delay . |
| 7 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 8 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 9 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 10 | The closest starting point for a trip to the Grand Canyon is Las Vegas , though Los Angeles at about a day 's drive away has more choice of low-cost fares . |
| 11 | It assesses practical basic language skills in English and another language in the context of the public services at about A level . |
| 12 | Of the four species of penguin kept at Belfast Zoo , the adult king towers above the rest at about a metre . |
| 13 | You spoke about what was said in the brochure that management charges had been or would be running at about a rate of inflation , we can see it on page fifty six , it 's better if you look at it I think , rather than I parrot phrase , see fifty six if you so kind now see fifty six is talking about at Broadstone will the management charges greatly increase the answer is no management service , er , sorry has appointed U K leading management specialist for several reasons , firstly because of their professional caring attitude , secondly because time has shown that management charges , rises the rate either slightly below or at the levelled inflation when that brochure was produced in respect of that development was that statement true or was it not ? |
| 14 | In any case — and this is probably the least-quoted medical fact at parties — the lowest risk of heart disease occurs at about a glass of wine a day , so the average social drinker is well past any ‘ protective ’ effect of alcohol . |
| 15 | That usually works out at about a fiver a flourish . |
| 16 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 17 | And erm I think it 's erm an , an issue for us to look at as a management team , whether we actually give it an even , even greater weighting |
| 18 | Looked at as a whole , Thailand has done well . |
| 19 | the constituent members make taxable supplies and would be liable to register if looked at as a whole ; |
| 20 | The room is at its best looked at as a whole . |
| 21 | All aspects of IT ( i.e. teaching and research , library and administrative ) are being looked at as a whole . |
| 22 | Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty . |
| 23 | It is submitted that the whole of Skelton Village should be looked at as a unity , that there is extreme environmental value over its north part , and that were the village inset into the greenbelt , the inset boundary should be precisely as shown in the deposit copy of Southern Ryedale 's Local Plan . |
| 24 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 25 | By counting the actual number of critical steps or decisions involved in the makeup and use of a product an objective figure can be arrived at as a measure of convenience . |
| 26 | Jiu jitsu 's sporting form , that of judo , ‘ the gentle way ’ was looked at as a method for training law enforcement officers in arrest and hold techniques . |
| 27 | He kept in touch with one or two of his friends that he worked with at as a maltster . |
| 28 | Spelt out slightly more fully ( and at the risk of oversimplification ) , this means that a decision is open to review where it has been arrived at as a result of a mistaken view of the law , or where the decision is one that could not reasonably have been arrived at , in the sense that the person deciding must have taken into account irrelevant considerations , or failed to take into account relevant ones , or where he has failed to observe the dictates of natural justice which require him to give the parties a hearing before arriving at his decision . |
| 29 | Notice also that we can express any class of asset as a proportion of total assets or liabilities and remember too that in section 1.1.5 we said that these ratios are arrived at as a matter of deliberate choice and are assumed to represent portfolio equilibrium . |
| 30 | When Ivy went he took clerk with them down at as a witness . |