Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance .
2 We expressed our reservations about the conditions attached to the pay review body — both the preconditions and the ability of the Minister or the Secretary of State to interfere at a later date .
3 With emissions of oxides of nitrogen increasing at a faster rate than sulphur dioxide emissions , nitric acid will increase in relative importance in its contribution to acid precipitation ( Lewis and Grant , 1980 ) .
4 We have now to consider , as does Tilly , what light this analysis can throw upon the phenomena of nationalism and the development of nation states at a later time .
5 His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself .
6 It must be borne in mind that a longer exposure will allow more plant material to be ‘ seen ’ but correction must be made for spreading of material seen at a lower exposure .
7 Eventually supergrains of matter coalesced until the rocky fragments became large enough to attract more materials with gravity accreting at a faster and faster rate until they became full-sized planets .
8 He knew just when , and how , to tap , in order to receive at a deeper level than he gave .
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