Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 2 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
| 3 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 6 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 7 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
| 8 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) ) . |
| 11 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
| 12 | Needless to say , electronic interviewing remains at an early stage in its development . |
| 13 | Today , the Games ' record in this event stands at a superb 48.63 secs , while Ireland 's record-holder , Willie Johnston ( 52.25s ) , would have given Devitt a three-metre start and beaten him ! |
| 14 | Sometimes , in His slow journey across the shores of Infinity , He moves His country-sized head to snap at a passing comet . |
| 15 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 17 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 18 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 19 | Once again we return to the old advice to practise at a safe height . |
| 20 | Although her much earlier work of semi-architectural constructions on a theatrical scale hinted at a different sort of audience participation , away from that of the story telling object , it has taken till now for her to challenge the viewer in an open way . |
| 21 | In addition it was found that as the number of choices which could be made , when choosing the cards , increased by a factor of 2 ( another bit of information was required ) , the time required for the brain to make this choice increased at a constant rate . |
| 22 | The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge . |
| 23 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 24 | These confer the right — but not the obligation — to buy or sell the foreign currency required at a pre-determined rate . |
| 25 | The British Presidency comes at a turning point in the Community 's history . |
| 26 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 27 | So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate . |
| 28 | Furthermore , each child learned at a different pace in every subject area and this pace was uneven , reflecting the whole range of influences upon the child external to life in school . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |