Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
2 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
3 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
4 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
5 | No trespass is committed where the aircraft flies at a reasonable height , having regard to wind , weather and all the circumstances of the case . |
6 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
7 | Markby swished at a trailing bramble with a piece of stick . |
8 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
9 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
10 | North of the Border , a balance between those architects expecting a rise and those expecting a fall in workloads in the next six months stands at a dismal minus 19 per cent . |
11 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
12 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
13 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
14 | If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
15 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
16 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
17 | To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives . |
18 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
19 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
20 | In the distance , ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace , the wheels spinning around . |
21 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
22 | The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism . |
23 | There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock . |
24 | Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize . |
25 | the availability of opportunities to study at a broad range of levels , of course lengths and of modes ( part-time , full-time or mixed ) ; |
26 | In summary , the research aims at a detailed examination of the policy-making process . |
27 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
28 | It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it . |
29 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
30 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |