Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 2 | Durham county councillors decided at a private meeting yesterday that the club building in Duke Street should be repossessed . |
| 3 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 4 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 5 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 6 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |
| 7 | But you should descend at a higher rate so as to reach 2500ft before you turn . |
| 8 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 9 | MUSIC from five centuries will be sung at a choral concert tonight by the St Cecilia Singers . |
| 10 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 11 | Now with it being , we 're not gon na look at a high margin straight away cos I know that 's a waste of time . |
| 12 | We shall look at a few examples now in which simple geometries will be considered . |
| 13 | Rather than waste unwanted vintages they are sold at a huge discount straight from the barrel — the resulting parties are superb fun . |
| 14 | Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components . |
| 15 | My own recollections begin at a public function just over 20 years ago . |
| 16 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 17 | That year the Museum began founding bronzes from the unpublished casts , which it keeps at a secret location somewhere in France . |
| 18 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |
| 19 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 20 | It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection . |
| 21 | See how they grab at objects whether they are edible or not and then spit them out , only to grab at an identical item soon after . |
| 22 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 23 | Not only that , but the beams appeared to be coming at a faster rate now — more than once a second . |
| 24 | Hull KR are confident their players ' strike will be settled at a further meeting tonight . |
| 25 | A sine qua non of environmental traffic management here has been the reduction of through traffic by closing access from the Rhein Allee Within the treated area , the most radically changed streets have been repaved at a uniform level so that there is scarcely a distinction between pavement and carriageway ( Figure 6.40 ) . |
| 26 | The rotors were often run at a circumferential velocity only slightly higher than that of the relative wind , that is at far less than optimal efficacy . |
| 27 | You are never far away from the decision-making in this kind of work , so you learn how to manage a whole range of areas and can be involved at a high level relatively quickly . ’ |
| 28 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 29 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |
| 30 | It was bold because it conflicted with theories generally accepted at the time , theories that included the assumption that electromagnetic systems ( magnets , charged bodies , current-carrying conductors , etc. ) act upon each other instantaneously across empty space and that electromagnetic effects can be propagated at a finite velocity only through material substances . |