Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sequence with enhancer-like character has been described in the S-phase regulated histone H4 , although located at a very distal position with respect to the transcription start point ( 21 ) . |
| 2 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 3 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 4 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 5 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 6 | There is a useful general classification into two types : flows in which turbulent motion first occurs in small patches , and flows in which the randomness characteristic of turbulence develops at a roughly equal rate throughout the transition region . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This project looks at a highly distinctive group — migrants from the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe — who because of their French nationality ( the islands are departements d'outre mer ) and the organised nature of their migration share only in part the socio-economic characteristics of the foreign immigrant population . |
| 9 | When these values are adjusted to the 1 bar altitude , which lies at a fairly small distance below the cloud tops ( Figure 9.5 ) , then the equatorial radius is 71 400 km and the polar radius is 66 550 km . |
| 10 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
| 11 | There are no other comparable arrangements however , and as a separate facet of this sequence they are relatively uninstructive and more profitably considered at a more specific level of affinity ( section 2.2 and 3.3 , below pp. 30 and 33 ) . |
| 12 | The court also has power to order transfer of its own motion and the question should be considered at a very early stage in the proceedings . |
| 13 | The answers received will be analysed in tabular form for statistical presentation and so categories of response must be considered at a relatively early stage . |
| 14 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 15 | The implication for in-service education of teachers ( INSET ) is that , rather than placing exclusive emphasis on ‘ group work ’ , it would be more appropriate for the issues to be presented at a more general level and discussion encouraged of a range of different strategies and their practical implications . |
| 16 | d , Changes in pH i ( as in a ) and uptake current produced by 100μM L-Glu and D-Asp ( applied at a more negative potential to increase its uptake current ) . |
| 17 | This should be done at a fairly early stage . ’ |
| 18 | They were pushing at a partially open door as far as Britain was concerned . |
| 19 | He smiled as he sat back , looking suddenly quite charming although the duelling scar on one cheek hinted at a more ruthless side to his nature . |
| 20 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 21 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 22 | The publication of the report ‘ The Implications of the Single European Market for Scottish Vocational Education ’ , funded by the Scottish Office Education Department , and undertaken by Alan McGregor and Graham Thom of Glasgow University occurs at a very opportune time . |
| 23 | Both partners may have tried to talk at a more intimate level but found that the other one was not listening . |
| 24 | 9 In a debt-scourged country , you are looking at a formerly beautiful place now devastated by oil-drilling . |
| 25 | Jimmy McGregor , a member of the legislative council , said , ‘ If we did not have to depend on China we would be looking at a most marvellous future . ’ |
| 26 | He was looking at a completely empty street , so lacking in signs of life that it might be a convenient escape route . |
| 27 | We were looking at a very serious contender indeed . |
| 28 | We read the message of our watch by looking at a constantly changing display . |
| 29 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 30 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |