Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Individuals doing their own thing does not work , as Jacques Chirac found out at a 1988 Paris rally . |
| 4 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 5 | Suppose , for example , that the labour force grows exogenously at a constant exponential rate , 11 . |
| 6 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 7 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 8 | Twenty minutes later , wearing her grey flannel trousers and mole-coloured jersey and with her hair casually tied back in a velvet ribbon , Julia walked into the salon , only to be brought up short by the sight of David staring blankly at a yellow form in his right hand , a tumbler of whisky ignored and tilting in his left . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Roosevelt 's ‘ fireside ’ chats to the American people had already demonstrated that broadcasting as a persuasive agent worked best at a quiet and confidential level of address . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , research and development in post-war fighter aircraft went forward at a brisk pace and over a wide range of options . |
| 12 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 13 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 14 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 15 | He stared moodily at the photograph at the thin face with its moustache and big ears smiling out at an unimaginable future . |
| 16 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 17 | Their work came together at a recent exhibition in Napier 's new KJP Gallery . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 21 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 22 | Also , you can leave multi-line messages on the screen or hit the ‘ instant-on ‘ key if the boss walks by at an inconvenient time ! |
| 23 | There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard . |
| 24 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 25 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 26 | There I stood in the fruit shop gazing longingly at a mouth-watering display of peaches . |
| 27 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The generator revved up and down , providing power to the automatic launcher ; it had some sort of randomly set variation built into where it was aiming because the clays came out at a different angle and heading each time . |
| 30 | Her call came after the surrender of the last group of rebels holding out at a military air base at Mactan in the central Philippines . |