Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 2 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 3 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 4 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 5 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 6 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 7 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 8 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 9 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 10 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 11 | His marriage seemed like the Atlantic Ocean to her , something vast and unknowable which she could not attempt to bridge but only fly over at a terrible speed . |
| 12 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 13 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 14 | Caroline and the rest of the group , who were raising funds for the BBC 's annual children in Need appeal , stopped off at a Turkish restaurant during their tour of four restaurants in Aberdeen . |
| 15 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 16 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 17 | Sit on a stool and massage one foot at a time by placing it on your thigh , knee bent up at a right angle . |
| 18 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 19 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 20 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 21 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That , if need be , could be sorted out at a later date . |
| 24 | It is very distressing to find out at a later date that you have made a mistake which can cost you dearly . |
| 25 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 26 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 27 | Most guitarists have heard of the ‘ waxing ’ method of eliminating feedback , but unfortunately this is a difficult process to carry out at home as it involves dipping the whole pickup assembly into hot paraffin wax , which has to be carried out at a controlled temperature : too hot and the bobbins melt , too cold and the wax does n't penetrate the coil windings . |
| 28 | For these , training was a regular event and in one case was carried out at a separate meeting every alternate month . |
| 29 | If a member can not carry out work for which a deposit has been paid , the fund will either ensure the work is carried out at a fair price less the deposit or refund the deposit . |
| 30 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |