Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 2 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 3 | The Joyces returned to Ireland in 1909 , and William was brought up a Roman Catholic and educated at a Jesuit college where he excelled in Latin , French , and German . |
| 4 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 5 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 6 | They carry the Government Class 1 BS476 Part 7 fire ratings and can be installed at a lower cost than conventional re-roofing . |
| 7 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 8 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 9 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 10 | While research dealing with the optimum length of hospital stay is sparse , significantly fewer relapses are seen in patients who complete an inpatient programme and are discharged at a normal weight than in those who leave prematurely . |
| 11 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 14 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the example of Rubik 's cube , we have looked at a substantial problem that leads naturally to a great deal of mathematics and uses many techniques of problem solving . |
| 19 | Babies do not , as doctors have always believed , grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts — even shooting up by half an inch in 24 hours . |
| 20 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 21 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They walk at a leisurely pace and if prodded , often ‘ play dead ’ . |
| 29 | Also had further letter from Notts County Council about Nottinghamshire Minerals local plan , asking us again if we have any representations to make , I think it was decided at a previous meeting that we did not , erm Colin Williamson , production of development and planning at Newton and Sherwood District Council , it 's proposal to run seminars for Parish Councils on planning policies , law and procedures , and we would like to know erm whether erm we would be interested in attending , and how many people would wish , he he has earmarked temporarily twenty eighth of March , which is a Monday , as a possible date at town hall , so if er if you think that would be something that you would be erm interested in going to , the topics erm are really I think things that came up at the Parish Council 's conference , the questions about planning , about the rules , and the policies , and the procedures etcetera , the erm , and visitors were talking last thing for sixth of December for five minutes , and the discussion for half an hour to three quarters , commencing at half past seven , so er if anyone 's interested in attending that ? |
| 30 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |