Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 2 | Suppose , for example , that the labour force grows exogenously at a constant exponential rate , 11 . |
| 3 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 6 | Roosevelt 's ‘ fireside ’ chats to the American people had already demonstrated that broadcasting as a persuasive agent worked best at a quiet and confidential level of address . |
| 7 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 8 | Their work came together at a recent exhibition in Napier 's new KJP Gallery . |
| 9 | Between the many breaks in the cloud the rays of a thin evening sun shafted down at an acute angle to spotlight the pastoral scene . |
| 10 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 11 | Details of the bonus scheme for the station 's senior management emerged yesterday at a special meeting of shareholders called to approve the departure of Mr Arthur Price , former head of MTM , TVS 's loss-making US production arm which it bought 18 months ago for £190million . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 14 | There I stood in the fruit shop gazing longingly at a mouth-watering display of peaches . |
| 15 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 17 | Young Ian Fletcher scored two touchdowns from full-back , and Dave McKee , Stuart Munro and Trevor Carmichael had the others , as West kept the scoreboard ticking over at a steady rate throughout the match . |
| 18 | A body of soldiers in sports kit marched past at a slow , rhythmic pace , singing loudly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The scale length of the Tribute checks out at a Fender-like 25½ inches . |
| 22 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 23 | A head flew off at a sideways flick of Ewan 's sword . |
| 24 | He had a beard and his forehead sloped back at a steep angle . |
| 25 | The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level . |
| 26 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 27 | In distinctive display flight flaps upwards at a steep angle and then glides down with wings scarcely upraised . |
| 28 | In summary , when cells are activated , the cytoplasm becomes an excitable matrix which allows a calcium signal to initiate periodically at a specific point before spreading throughout the cell as a regenerative calcium wave . |
| 29 | They proceeded at the double along plasteel-ribbed corridors in the direction of the Foundries ; and after descending several levels by drop-shaft arrived presently at a fan-vaulted vestibule where power swords , power axes , and other weapons hung . |
| 30 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |