Example sentences of "at a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Walraven from Faversham in Kent has been stuck at a border customs post for eight days . |
| 2 | An Oxford student has been remanded in custody for a week at a London Magistrates Court ; twenty-one year old Ajaiki Akabasharune is jointly charged with a student from Wolverhampton for conspiring with persons unknown to defraud the central clearing banks this August . |
| 3 | The first clash occurred at a school managers ' meeting the following January . |
| 4 | Prime Mist Prime Minister Major spoke last year at a nurses awards dinner organised by Bupa he said there was now much more scope for private health firms . |
| 5 | A puppy which may have rabies is being held at a quarantine kennels in the region . |
| 6 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
| 7 | He was being held at a Liverpool police station overnight and will be driven south today for questioning in London . |
| 8 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 9 | THIS was how actress Nina Hartley faced a challenge … to make a show-stopping appearance at a video dealers ' convention . |
| 10 | At a Tuxis Boys ' camp the year before we had coined the word MELACHUSETUCK as an ‘ Indian name ’ for the camp . |
| 11 | PEOPLE travel from all over the world to look at a scrap-metal merchants in Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | To earn full grant-aid the student attendance requirement of 66% of the possible total was continued as was that for written work at a university honours course standard . |
| 13 | At a Panel Members ' training weekend at the Merkister Hotel at Harray in Orkney , on 10 November 1990 , it is alleged confidentiality was breached by the public discussion of an ongoing case . |
| 14 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 15 | Nicholas Dodman , 34 , of Wynstay Lane , Wrexham , pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court yesterday to receiving part of the proceeds of a £14,500 haul from a burglary at a Victoria Wines off licence in Deeside . |
| 16 | In both modes , dive time reads in minutes and seconds , while the time left at a stop decrements in minutes . |
| 17 | She had discovered that he was to deliver an address at a Sunday Times book exhibition , and she arrived there with Polly . |
| 18 | They stop at a motorway services . |
| 19 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 20 | The Chinese-style duck with hoi-sin sauce and pancakes , and the fish and vegetable tempura , are as accurately executed here as by native practitioners in Chinatown or at a Soho sushi bar . |
| 21 | Many years ago , at a race relations meeting held in the church hall of a Black church in the American South , I saw a striking picture of the head and shoulders of a Black man on the cross , simply called ‘ Black Christ ’ . |
| 22 | Hayling had introduced Casares-Roach to Walsh after meeting her at a Ford workers ' conference in Benidorm where she had been the translator . |
| 23 | A tear slowly rolled down his grandfather 's face , but still his eyes gazed at a point miles and miles away . |
| 24 | They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work . |
| 25 | Speaking at a student awards ceremony , Don Alexander , director at the Training and Employment Agency , said more people were now being given the chance to work in other countries . |
| 26 | A letter bomb had in March wounded three at a prison officers ' union headquarters ; another killed an officer 's mother in Granada on Aug. 11 . |
| 27 | Wyman , 56 , admitted he was immediately besotted when he spotted willowy Mandy at a rock awards ceremony in London 's Lyceum ballroom . |
| 28 | Fig 92 A line start at a world championships . |
| 29 | Local newspapers ran campaigns focusing on what needed to be done at a grass roots level and the region 's evening paper , the Liverpool Echo , mounted an unprecedented campaign , culminating in its ‘ Drugs : A Generation in Peril ’ series during September 1984 . |
| 30 | Reflecting a general attitude to democracy and participation at a grass roots level , primary health services are provided by people with no formal training but who possess a basic grounding in good health practices . |