Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 2 | Interestingly two such sites are located in the immediate vicinities of both the transcription initiation site at +1 and the proposed transcription initiation site further upstream at -287 . |
| 3 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 4 | They teach kids how to cook and mend cars and fuck one another without getting pregnant ; and the kids are , we assume , much better at all of this than we were , but what use is any of that to them if they do n't know about love ? |
| 5 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 6 | The production cycle of a monthly magazine I once edited was over five weeks for features , news fared slightly better at two weeks , and these represent the time taken to get the magazine to the printer , not onto the newsagents shelves . |
| 7 | The heat loss in pumping water to the aquarium ( especially in trickle filters ) means that the filter unit can be run at 30°C or more , which makes the filter much more efficient since the nitrifying bacteria operate better at higher temperatures . |
| 8 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 9 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 10 | Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) . |
| 11 | I 'm doing better at this all the time . |
| 12 | A novice gets in better at this stage of his career than at any other , ’ he said . |
| 13 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |
| 14 | The reduction in interest broadly matched the increase in tax paid between the two years , so the net movement of funds from operations are a critical parameter for whether we 're really generating cash for new initiatives , significantly better at forty five point six million and this this excludes the proceeds of fixed asset disposals , so all in all we had pretty nearly sixty million cash free and clear . |
| 15 | Although the Private Auto account produced a good result at the year end with an Operating Ratio more than 7 points better at 108.52 Personal Property reported increased losses for the period following some deterioration in the fourth quarter . |
| 16 | Later that day Mr Brownlow came in , having heard that the boy was a little better at last . |
| 17 | Far better at any rate , than in the diaphanous sweet-pea tinted frills in which her mother and Miss Ernestine Baker seemed intent on smothering her . |
| 18 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 19 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 20 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 21 | Despite these apparently uniform trends throughout the movement , the environmental community is not entirely at one with itself . |
| 22 | The lecture programme , together with its associated tutorial and laboratory work is based entirely at one of the three participating universities , but for the project work students will join the institution at which the appropriate special facilities or expertise exist . |
| 23 | In all of this music , as in the mighty Schubert Rondo in B minor of 1826 , both Friedman and Evans entirely at one , each yielding precedence at the behest of the music . |
| 24 | Since I acquired the books entirely at random some inevitably came from older libraries which had closed . |
| 25 | Since the example taken was entirely at random and 292 is a statistically significant proportion of the total number of libraries , it may be possible to make a hypothesis on the basis of this graph . |
| 26 | The books here have been collected entirely at random , as has been explained , but it is interesting to see that the arrival of the new media is reflected in some of them quite significantly . |
| 27 | Pulling up suddenly at that height puts a sudden , uncontrolled load on the cable and often results in a cable break . |
| 28 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 29 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 30 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |