Example sentences of "at a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France for the 60th birthday party of Steve 's mother , Lynn , at a villa once owned by writer Somerset Maugham , which the Wyatts regularly rent . |
| 2 | Closed Circuit Television cameras are appearing at a location near you — or , at least at the east end of Princes Street , Tollcross , Haymarket , St. John 's Road , Leith Walk and Quality Street . |
| 3 | We then left Gt Yarmouth for another attempt at a passage northward and found less wind but a nasty swell outside the harbour . |
| 4 | Last winter , he filmed , at a range too close for most people 's comfort , the deadliest of them all , man-eating sharks . |
| 5 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 6 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 7 | There is no evidence ruling out either the pentagon-road or fullerene-road schemes , but the field is at a state where new suggestions for the fullerene formation mechanism are welcome . |
| 8 | We were at a night out . |
| 9 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |
| 10 | It 's thirteen fifty a ticket , it 's erm , I do n't think you can moan at a night out for that , especially a night out like that |
| 11 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 12 | erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . |
| 13 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 14 | But both Raquel and Freddie were at a celebration here last year to bless the marriage . |
| 15 | On one occasion a dozen young myrtles had been dispatched , at a shilling apiece , although Miller much regretted he was unable to pack them himself on account of injuring his leg while ‘ a-herborising by water ’ . |
| 16 | We have rules that executive share option schemes may grant options at a discount only if the employer also runs an all-employee scheme . |
| 17 | Modern art is directed at a public largely untutored in the fine arts amidst a rapid expansion of the means of communication . |
| 18 | MORE than 11,000 civil service jobs in Scotland are under threat and thousands more could go over the next few years , the Civil and Public Services Association leader , Barry Reamsbottom , will state at a rally tomorrow . |
| 19 | It will be seen from this extract that at a baptism sometimes both parents ' names were recorded , but occasionally only the father 's . |
| 20 | If you are joining the Faculties of Science and Engineering or Veterinary Medicine , ask for an account to be opened at a branch near , respectively , the King 's Buildings or Summerhall . |
| 21 | If you are joining the Faculties of Science and Engineering or Veterinary Medicine , ask for an account to be opened at a branch near , respectively , the King 's Buildings or Summerhall . |
| 22 | In the television shop , probably the one place at a pinch where there might have been a red light , Bryan Whitehead said there had been an occasion when Hawes became confused with females of dubious character . |
| 23 | Police are trying to find out if a fire which killed three men at a rest home in Harrogate in North Yorkshire was started deliberately . |
| 24 | Yesterday , police confirmed that , in addition to three fires they were already treating as arson , a fourth fire at a holiday home in Pennal , Meirionnydd , was being treated as suspicious . |
| 25 | Usually , the m-derived section is designed to resonate at a frequency just outside the pass band of the prototype so that its strong resonant attenuation coincides with the range of weakest attenuation of the prototype . |
| 26 | Eliminating between these equations gives or on separately equating the real and imaginary parts The second of these two relations simplifies to and substitution of this condition into the first yields Equations ( 8.34 ) and ( 8.35 ) , representing the conditions that must be satisfied to procure total rejection , become much simpler if it is assumed that , for they then reduce to Evidently , if and , total rejection occurs at a frequency close to . |
| 27 | I want you to look at a cow now . |
| 28 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 29 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 30 | And held a position in the industry at a level not less than junior or first line management at the time of application . |