Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] at a " in BNC.

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1 Since ambient temperature and humidity are subject to considerable variation , seasonal and diurnal and geographical , it is greatly preferable to store samples at a controlled constant temperature ( 20°C or 25°C ) rather than ‘ room temperature ’ .
2 ‘ You should stop fighting so hard to keep people at a distance .
3 It is extremely important to provide education at a point when the user experiences motivation .
4 Gosh , I was so surprised to see skinheads at a Madness gig .
5 It is not possible to obtain data at a sufficiently disaggregated level to confirm this argument , but it is consistent with the data that are available .
6 Some people might argue at a local level rather than a central level , you 're much more likely to get effectiveness at a local level , than of by central dictate .
7 I 'm just about due to cause havoc at a meeting of the passenger Health and Safety Committee anyway . ’
8 Many trade unionists , acutely sensitive to wage reductions at a time of high unemployment and deflation , held two important views on the matter of pensions .
9 Beneath the respectable front of many local organisations there had developed only too frequently , as the men of the north-east had earlier predicted , a form of legalised crimping operated between Board of Trade staff at Mercantile Marine Offices and boarding house keepers who were only too happy to supply seamen at a profit to themselves .
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