Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 2 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 3 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 6 | Plainly there are different degrees of misbehaviour and the partners will not readily resort to the extreme sanction of expulsion , but it is in the interests of the firm that a tendency to depart from proper professional standards be investigated and warnings handed down at an early stage before serious harm is done . |
| 7 | The paper had been relaunched by Maurice Kinn , a successful London agent and promoter who , by turning up at an agreed location on the stroke of noon with £1,000 pounds of borrowed cash in hand , acquired the title and promptly added the New . |
| 8 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 9 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 10 | Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making . |
| 11 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Through the provision of contracts on admission , and ongoing reviews of each resident 's career in the Home , difficulties might be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 14 | The snags can be ironed out at an early stage . |
| 15 | The management contractor , by being brought in at an early stage , will become involved in the design process in co-operation with the client 's designer . |
| 16 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 17 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 18 | Suddenly , he gave a yell , raced furiously ahead and leapt up at an overhanging bough . |
| 19 | If the cell is set up at an appropriate angle to the incoming light , then when the amplitude of the standing wave is zero the cell transmits the light in the usual way ; when the amplitude is at its maximum the light is deflected at angle equal to twice the incident angle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 20 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 21 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 22 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 23 | The Presidential Grant for 1993/94 was proposed by at an inflation-linked figure of £1,368 . |
| 24 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 25 | New sub-disciplines are taking off at an extraordinary rate , associated in particular with the integration of computer systems into society 's systems of communication , management and finance . |
| 26 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 27 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 28 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 29 | This allowed illegal letter strings to be ruled out at an early stage . |
| 30 | The Bank is considering the view of the IBOA to their proposals on Job Sharing and will revert back at an early date . |