Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb infin] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 2 | It is important that the medium used flows and fills all the air space , so that subsidence does not occur at a later date . |
| 3 | The choice of starting and finishing places was arbitrary — the desert does not begin at a defined line . |
| 4 | The conductivity does n't stay at a certain level then ? |
| 5 | rather than say if it does n't arrive at a set time |