Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pattern cutters , fitters , sewing hands and their assistants all worked at an incredible speed . |
| 2 | The Commission would have increased powers , including for the first time the power to propose legislation in the highly-sensitive area of home affairs on such issues as the right of asylum , immigration and residency rights ( hitherto discussed at an intergovernmental level in the " Trevi group " ) . |
| 3 | The investigating procedure is very naturally divided at an early stage into two aspects — the operational or operating circumstances in which the event occurred , and the examination of the aircraft remains . |
| 4 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 5 | 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage . |
| 6 | If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports . |
| 7 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 8 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 9 | NI contributions are normally paid at an initial percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the lower earnings limit , and at a main percentage rate on earnings between the lower and employee 's upper earnings limit . |
| 10 | The split was formally approved at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Feb. 23 . |
| 11 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 12 | Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period . |
| 13 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |
| 14 | The stock of bills is shown by and this stock is willingly held at an average rate of discount of . |
| 15 | While bird-watching is often used at an early stage in research to try to develop hypotheses and to make sure one does have some idea of how people behave before going any further , there is no reason why one should not develop more systematic recording schedules to standardize the observations and to develop more of a survey approach . |
| 16 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 17 | Miller finds that patterns are almost always well defined at an early age , consist of between 20 and 25 distinct preferred activities , and are thereafter extremely difficult to change . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s . |
| 19 | The diaphragm , I read , had to be smeared with spermicide , squeezed tight between fingers and thumb to make it narrow enough , then inserted at an implausible angle . |