Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level . |
| 2 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 3 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 4 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 6 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 7 | In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised . |
| 8 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 9 | Suppose , for example , that the labour force grows exogenously at a constant exponential rate , 11 . |
| 10 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 11 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 12 | I feel the Pope should draw his clergy 's attention instead to these new things called Buzzboards — motorised two-wheel scooters on which the driver travels upright at a dignified speed of 20 mph . |
| 13 | At 52 years of age , he still competes regularly at a representative level , up to national standard , putting in creditable performances . |
| 14 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 15 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 16 | Now , the fearful buy their guns from guys like John , who has his own shop and also helps out at a suburban shooting school , the Academy of Marksmanship … |
| 17 | As caries sets in at a weak point in the tooth 's enamel and spreads to rot the whole tooth , so an appeal to the crown could trigger the decay of local autonomy . |
| 18 | The story rips along at a cracking pace instead of suspensefully loitering , yet it somehow lacks the frisson of Alien in its businesslike efficiency . |
| 19 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 20 | Also , you can leave multi-line messages on the screen or hit the ‘ instant-on ‘ key if the boss walks by at an inconvenient time ! |
| 21 | The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level . |
| 22 | The entry level 386SX with 2MB RAM comes in at a mere £499 . |
| 23 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 24 | The service block comes off at a right angle at the back and forms a sort of court where you arrive . |
| 25 | ‘ If one averages this out at around £41 per soldier per week for 1,000 troops the annual cost works out at a mere £2.1m — a long way short of the £365m claimed for propaganda purposes . ’ |