Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 2 | The Lebanese army did not enter a nearby camp used by Dev Sol , the Turkish urban guerrilla group , but were expected to do so at a later date . |
| 3 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 4 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 5 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 6 | The prescription of glasses is an exact science , and they are made to fit correctly at a specific distance from the eyeball . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 8 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 9 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 10 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 11 | The new models are about 20% more expensive than the models they replace , but are about three times more powerful , which it reckons works out at an average 2.5-fold improvement in price-performance . |
| 12 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 13 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 14 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 15 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 16 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 17 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |
| 18 | With a zoom , however , it is larger when the angle is wide and the lens is at a short setting ( eg 25mm ) and becomes smaller as the focal length increases — the beam of light , originally wide , is ‘ squashed ’ within the longer tube and becomes narrower , while distances between camera and mirror and between mirror and screen remain the same ( the screen would have to move backwards at a measured rate for the image to stay the same size ) . |
| 19 | If you have found work elsewhere at a lower salary before the hearing , the tribunal will have to project your loss forward for whatever period it considers appropriate . |
| 20 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 21 | ‘ did loiter ( or solicit ) ’ Loiter means passing frequently at a slow speed ( Williamson v Wright 1924 SLT 363 ) . |
| 22 | The train had been forced to brake hard at a level crossing to miss a taxi and one of the wheels had been damaged . |
| 23 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 24 | They had lunched together at a small restaurant full of pseudo-oak beams and bright red table-cloths . |
| 25 | They had arrived independently at a similar view on the character of Prince Hal and the way in which that should be developed through the three plays . |
| 26 | The deflation of aggregate demand and the rise in unemployment did appear to reduce the rate of inflation , but once unemployment had settled down at a higher level , the rate of inflation ceased to fall . |
| 27 | Allitt had worked regularly at an old people 's home and been spotted by an auxiliary nurse one night giving an injection to a 73-year-old diabetic , Dorothy Lowe . |
| 28 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 29 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 30 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |