Example sentences of "at a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now let's use the spreadsheet to look at a real savings plan . |
| 2 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 3 | A horse that stands just twenty one inches high is pulling in the crowds at a small breeds farm . |
| 4 | At a final lawyers ' meeting , it was at last agreed that Oldfield 's royalties should be increased , in varying amounts according to territories . |
| 5 | On November 16 , 1990 , at a stormy shareholders ' general meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum in Solihull , Le Roux 's house of cards came tumbling down . |
| 6 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 7 | One CSE Grade 1 is all he could muster from school , so , fired by the grim prospect of a factory job , he went to a college of further education where he gained four ‘ O ’ levels after a year and then took a job at a wholesale jewellers , where they were n't too optimistic about his chances of promotion . |
| 8 | Semi-contact sparring at a martial arts club is an excellent way of simulating the real thing . |
| 9 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 10 | And his public relations value to greyhound racing was estimated at a million pounds . |
| 11 | This is the state of affairs at a normal sports centre , where everyone else seems to be skilled and athletic and you too embarrassed to start . |
| 12 | Andy is a store detective at a major women 's clothes store in north London . |
| 13 | At a new universities festival in Bradford he had run into Richard Neville . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no point in going into a school library now , ’ said a well known author at a recent Arts Council seminar . |
| 15 | On stand duty at a recent careers convention , my distant thoughts were interrupted by approach of a young bloke enquiring as to where he could find PCL . |
| 16 | Visas are not required for entry into Bolivia , where you are given a 30-day entrance stamp , renewable at a federal police station in any major city . |
| 17 | ‘ Jael Otis Ann Ryder was born at 6.30am on Saturday , February 16 , weighing in at a bounding 10lbs 10oz . ’ |
| 18 | David Batty , of champions Leeds , and all our positional and divisional winners , will join the other winners YOU vote for at a splendid awards ceremony next month at the Dorchester Hotel , London . |
| 19 | David Batty , of champions Leeds , and all our positional and divisional winners , will join the other winners YOU vote for at a splendid awards ceremony next month at the Dorchester Hotel , London . |
| 20 | We must be looking at a general systems failure . |
| 21 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
| 22 | Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders ' institution for robbery . |
| 23 | They were guests at a young offenders ' institution … and found the inmates were one of the most appreciative audiences they 'd ever had . |
| 24 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 25 | Firefighters tackling a serious blaze at a former children 's home in Kennelwood Avenue , Northwood , Kirkby , were pelted with broken bricks and stones . |
| 26 | If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time . |
| 27 | They later opened fire with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle at a pursuing police car before abandoning their Sierra car in a field and disappearing into the countryside , Mr Nutting said . |
| 28 | You might try driving a car at a brick wall at a 100 miles an hour on the off chance of coming to no harm at all , but please make sure you have renewed your NI subscription first . |
| 29 | There we walked through the Green Dragon to the force , at a hundred feet the longest unbroken waterfall in England , and known to freeze into a massive ice tube in winter — Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited the spot and were impressed by its grandeur , so much so that William , ever the florid poet , wrote ebulliently to Coleridge , describing the visit : |
| 30 | ‘ At a hundred feet , ’ he said , ‘ all you 're doing is warning him that you 're there . ’ |