Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
2 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
3 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
4 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
5 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
6 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
7 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
8 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
9 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
10 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
11 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
12 | Only a black quilted hairband pushing back her blonde hair hinted at an aristocratic connection . |
13 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
14 | The same groups of women are at risk : those of a promiscuous nature , and particularly those whose first sexual intercourse occurred at an early age . |
15 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
16 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
17 | Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies . |
18 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
19 | He paused by the windowsill on the way to his desk to peer at an African violet in a pot . |
20 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
21 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
22 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
23 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
24 | Membership grew at an astonishing pace , reaching close to 30,000 in the late 1970s . |
25 | Needless to say , electronic interviewing remains at an early stage in its development . |
26 | They are synergistic , which means they rely on each other in order to keep the body functioning at an optimum level . |
27 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
28 | Tax paid at an earlier stage is deducted to produce the net tax due at each stage . |
29 | This can be supplemented by written exercises which will be computer assessed at an extra cost of £15 . |
30 | Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) . |