Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coming two years sales are targeted to continue at an even faster rate , contributing an extra 9.5 billion to the Exchequer by April 1988 . |
| 2 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 3 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 4 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 5 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 6 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 7 | Ellen turned to look at the rapidly disappearing Dream Baby . |
| 8 | I 'd like to manage at the very highest level and pit my wits against the best . |
| 9 | As a result , changes have occurred in adoption procedures , and couples have to apply to adopt at a much younger age , and go through rigorous and lengthy assessment procedures . |
| 10 | In 1912 the Palace Girls were selected to represent all Tiller Girls when they were greatly honoured by being invited to perform at the very first Royal Command Performance . |
| 11 | Piaget attempts to map the increasing capacity for abstraction implied by the symbolic function , showing that in this development , language , which depends on an entirely conventional relationship between sign and signified , is bound to come at a relatively late stage . |
| 12 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 13 | Atherosclerosis appears to proceed at a more rapid rate and is more extensive in the diabetic ( Crall & Roberts , 1978 ) , but the process does not differ in its morphological appearance nor in its anatomical distribution compared to the non-diabetic ( Strandness et al , 1964 ; Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 14 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 15 | The Bazaar totally exceeded all expectations , and was a rousing success , raising in excess of £6,000 when the Building Committee had only dared to hope to raise at the most optimistic a sum of £5,000 . |
| 16 | For Xianju and her colleague Song Gong , coming to learn at the internationally reknowned Hebrew studies centre in Yarnton , has been invaluable . |
| 17 | In contrast the world appears to move at an incredibly fast pace to a snail . |
| 18 | ‘ She chose to go at a very inconvenient time , I must say ’ |
| 19 | Both partners may have tried to talk at a more intimate level but found that the other one was not listening . |
| 20 | Catalytic converter technology would be forced to advance at a much improved rate , showing that F1 does indeed improve motoring in general . |
| 21 | I wonder if he left two minutes in hand , like me , to get from the barrier to a compartment level with the Greenwich exit , or three , or five , or whether he liked to arrive at the very last moment and leave a slight uncertainty in the air . |
| 22 | When you and your dog are forced to survive at a very basic level , you share the kind of experience that fastens and tightens a solid bond . |
| 23 | It 's very clear that if you wish to manage at a very high level or wish to influence people you wo n't achieve that wearing a sloppy sweater and jeans . |
| 24 | However , to achieve a satisfactory result you need to knit at a very loose tension , at least eight , and more probably nine or ten . |
| 25 | If we can trust the figures which suggest that Christians tended to marry at a notably higher age than their pagan contemporaries , Christianity would appear to have reinforced these shifts towards marriage as a more personal and free partnership of equals . |