Example sentences of "[verb] at full [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 2 | This means there will be time to get everything down but that your brain will have to work at full speed and concentration to analyse all the words . |
| 3 | The company is already seeing substantial demand from the workstation industry — RISCs need much more memory to work at full efficiency — and forecasts that demand will soar . |
| 4 | When climbing at full throttle , the 2,300 rpm or so of your fixed-pitch propeller probably delivers less than 75 per cent . |
| 5 | We were still climbing at full power and a touch of nose up trim enabled me to increase the rate of climb . |
| 6 | Looking back , he saw that the gang were pounding his fallen friend with lumps of concrete so he decided to help by jumping into his car and driving at full speed towards them . |
| 7 | Check on the number of units that can be manufactured at full capacity : |
| 8 | Besides , the playing time is hardly generous for an issue retailing at full price . |
| 9 | On command , the vans raced to the side of the road , the cordon parted , and the demonstrators found themselves facing a mounted police charge at full gallop . |
| 10 | But this usually means the power amp is hardly ticking over in and so the resulting distortion is rarely fully representative of what the amp can do at full throttle . |
| 11 | The party was looking at full employment and a committee reported on the question in January 1944 . |
| 12 | In the end I simply did what I had done in writing at full length but I compressed the whole into the 5000-word stipulated maximum length . |
| 13 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 14 | They came at full speed , the leading man aiming to Sharpe 's left , the other pulling to his right . |
| 15 | The new plant loaded the first ship ‘ Sir William Walker ’ on 16th August 1977 but has never been operated at full capacity . |
| 16 | This occurred despite the system being , from a Western perspective , singly ill-suited for its new air-defence role : inadequate in range , mobility , acceleration , and with engine components which were likely to melt when operated at full power . |
| 17 | Reactor 3 operated at full power throughout the period until 15 November when the Reactor shut down automatically . |
| 18 | The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions . |
| 19 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 20 | The sluggish growth of exports last year was not mainly because they were uncompetitive , but because manufacturers , already operating at full capacity , switched output from exports to the home market to take advantage of surging demand and healthy margins . |
| 21 | The percentage of sales accounted for by each of these market segments is given below : At the 1986 level of demand the company was operating at full capacity , but today it has an excess of manufacturing capacity . |
| 22 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 23 | Brian Ervine ( Ballydrain ) , last year 's Northern Ireland champion , brings a wealth of experience to the side , and although sidelined for much of the season due to a thigh injury , will be operating at full throttle in France . |
| 24 | But , in fact , nuclear waste is produced the whole way through the ‘ nuclear fuel cycle ’ , even when the reactors are still operating at full power . |
| 25 | Both reactors are now operating at full load . |
| 26 | Any gas appliance is more efficient when operating at full load , which is not the case with most central heating boilers when providing only hot water heating . |
| 27 | Nippon Electric of Japan has recently opened a £50 million semiconductor factory in Livingston that will , by 1985 , when the plant is operating at full stretch , employ only 800 people . |
| 28 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 29 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 30 | Central Office was able to keep going at full capacity through 1915 and 1916 , but here again there was a falling off in 1917 . |