Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excellent air conditioning system , independently variable between the driver 's and passenger 's sides and fitted as standard , improves on an already good ventilation system , although its controls and high-tech graphic display are not easy to understand at a glance . |
| 2 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 3 | As with people , language can be extremely difficult to learn at an older age . |
| 4 | A contract may be written or verbal , but the intention of the verbal form may be more difficult to determine at a future date . |
| 5 | If in doubt , it might be as well to look at a pattern for fabric or to measure the amount of depth on a hemline that is already a favourite . |
| 6 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 7 | It could also sustain redistributive policies that might be very difficult to operate at a lower level . |
| 8 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 9 | ( Care must be taken in interpreting these probit equations : note that positive because the higher the price the more likely it is that all will be sold ; is positive because as the horizon approaches one gets less fussy , and so one is more likely to sell at a lower price ; the other signs follow from similar arguments . ) |
| 10 | Unless you plan to tour other parts of Florida , it 's probably easiest to stay at a Disney World resort or at one of the seven affiliated hotels very close by . |
| 11 | It is clearly imperative to arrive at a correct diagnosis of the origins of involuntary unemployment . |
| 12 | It 's far better to undertrain at a consistent level rather than to overtrain , which inevitably leads to staleness and possibly injury . |
| 13 | As the right hon. Gentleman is now keen to look at a longer period than just the last year , he will also be interested to know that between 1981 and 1991 the British economy grew faster than the German economy , the French economy , the Italian economy or the economy of any other country in Europe . |
| 14 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 15 | A librarian whose shelves are full is therefore obliged to weed at a rate which is precisely equal to that of his new accessions . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ It would have been very bad to perform at a butcher 's wedding . ’ |
| 17 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 18 | Guy could only hope that Isabel was quick and that the sentry was n't inclined to shoot at an unseen target . |
| 19 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |