Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 2 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 3 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 4 | One of the changes introduced since the consultation period on the SAS 's exposure draft , published in May 1992 , is a distinction between an inherent uncertainty which may be expected to be resolved at a future date and one which exists because evidence does or did exist but is not available to the auditors and so arises because of a limitation in the auditors ' work . |
| 5 | The incumbent 's output starts at a high level and gradually declines , whilst the entrants ' output starts low and gradually increases the more it discovers about the market . |
| 6 | If an employee is required to work at a new location and the distance between the old and new places of work is short enough to make commuting possible , organisations may not require employees to move their homes . |
| 7 | Any movements of base level set the sea to work at a different level and the processes of subaerial erosion to grade to the new level . |
| 8 | When the change in angle is made smoothly , the glider will be climbing at a safe angle and will be able to recover if there is a launch failure at any point . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They walk at a leisurely pace and if prodded , often ‘ play dead ’ . |
| 12 | If the target word was the only word selected at a particular position and was below the threshold score then it was replaced by ‘ ? ? ? ’ — the recogniser 's indication that it is unable to recognise any word . |
| 13 | Mr. Cooper replied by letter on 9 May 1983 , in which he pointed out the absolute necessity that tenants of the dock company should not be disturbed at a later date and seeking clarification that the council would not seek in the terms of their letter of 31 March to draw a distinction between ‘ extremely detrimental ’ and detrimental . |
| 14 | Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act . |
| 15 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 16 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 17 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 18 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 19 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 20 | I was trying to hint at that this morning that we 're looking at a whole child and sometimes they 're not gon na succeed in a subject they 've put it cos there 's sod all else for them to put and we need to be aware of that . |
| 21 | The houses were to be built at a pre-arranged cost and the architectural detail of each was to be carefully considered . |
| 22 | Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including : |
| 23 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |
| 24 | A few seconds later a second flock was seen at a higher level and directly in the aircraft 's flight path . |
| 25 | And er we played at a high tempo and we passed it and really dominated the rest of the game but our finishing could have been better . |
| 26 | Operating at a strategic level and in close liaison with other Group Development divisions , your key accountability will be to analyse and forecast the cash-flow , profitability and market share of major retail products . |
| 27 | Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy . |
| 28 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 29 | But , in this area of East Anglia , which of course , includes this part of Essex itself we have got quite a tidy ratio at the moment of these panels of school teachers and panels of young engineers to actually look at a national curriculum and work out some kind of erm time cycle when a young engineer could come in and actually cross the t's and dot the i's on parts which obviously the teachers do n't know about . |
| 30 | We shall look at a particular example and shall conclude that , when it comes to complexity and beauty of design , Paley hardly even began to state the case . |