Example sentences of "at different [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Situating herself within the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition , she looks at different conceptions of philosophy , its content and methods .
2 Meanwhile the wipers worked at different speeds , and one travelled in a shorter arc than the other .
3 She could turn on the spot by rotating the cylinders fore and aft in opposite directions and at different speeds .
4 At first in Africa , and later on the treadmill in the field station in Massachusetts , Taylor measured the oxygen consumption of a wide range of species when running , or hopping , or walking , or galloping , at different speeds .
5 He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds .
6 It will spin at different speeds with less or more sand .
7 They also like to up-end push and pull toys for imaginary mending , and wheels can be spun at different speeds .
8 But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus .
9 Pupils will also move at different speeds for different activities .
10 Since there are several such pairs of elements decaying at different speeds , it is possible to make cross-checks .
11 How can observers moving at different speeds all measure light at the same speed ?
12 How does having their own individual time cause people traveling at different speeds to measure the same speed of light ?
13 People moving at different speeds will not agree on the distance between two events .
14 Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light .
15 Try reading at different speeds .
16 I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs .
17 Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain .
18 The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds .
19 It is used by LIFESPAN to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds .
20 Two major types of wave are produced and these travel at different speeds .
21 Thus , although it was not possible to obtain a detailed analysis of the relation between P o and V c o m at different Ca 2 + concentrations , the available data show that under these experimental conditions , K + channels were sensitive to changes in the concentration of Ca 2 + bathing the cytosolic surface of the membrane .
22 Some unfamiliar concepts , such as the fact that observers moving at different velocities measure different time intervals between the same pair of events , were not essential to the picture I wanted to draw .
23 This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure .
24 All the stars are at different distances from the Sun .
25 I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’
26 game in which the players stand by themselves at different distances ( e.g. one at each corner of a room ) and one other player is placed in the middle .
27 What does the map tell you about the strength or power of the town 's attraction at different distances within its sphere of influence ?
28 To ascertain with accuracy whether such structure existed throughout its whole length , I made sections of the spinal marrow at different distances from the brain , and found that each divided portion exhibited an orifice with a diameter sufficient to admit a large sized pin ; from which a small quantity of transparent colourless fluid issued like that contained in the ventricles of the brain .
29 A comparison of data from the same apparatus at different distances is a crucial test for oscillations .
30 They can distinguish between two sounds which are only 18 inches apart at a distance of 60 feet ; they can separate with ease two sounds that are coming from the same direction , but at different distances ; and they can differentiate two sounds that have only a half-tone of difference between them .
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