Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at a [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 is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
3 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
4 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
5 | To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon . |
6 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
7 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
10 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
11 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
12 | If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
15 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
16 | The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism . |
17 | There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize . |
20 | In summary , the research aims at a detailed examination of the policy-making process . |
21 | It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it . |
22 | what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis . |
23 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
24 | Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey . |
25 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
26 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
27 | The action proceeds at a leisurely clip , filtered through Richard 's bemused and occasionally befuddled consciousness ( a disabling hangover gets a welcome tick on the checklist ) . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | They almost tripped over the body of a Sellsword , his neck tilted at a weird angle ; and then saw Ratagan . |
30 | Do remember to rub out your dots if a remedy works at a later date and only mark your bottle when the remedy has no effect if you are very certain that it should have worked . |