Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 2 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |
| 3 | This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years . |
| 6 | 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 ) ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In summary , the research aims at a detailed examination of the policy-making process . |
| 15 | It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it . |
| 16 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ? |
| 19 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | They almost tripped over the body of a Sellsword , his neck tilted at a weird angle ; and then saw Ratagan . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 24 | The waiters , who were obviously well accustomed to their elderly clientèle moved at a brisk trot . |
| 25 | Last night the old campaigner Benn was at an end of election meeting at a local community hall ; tonight there is a post-count tea with sandwiches . |
| 26 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 27 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 28 | Suppose that a contract to sell at a given price for a specified period is , for whatever reason , advantageous to both buyers and sellers . |
| 29 | Now the little girl sits at a small table in the cellar , the playing cards , Ludo and Monopoly set aside , as snipers ' bullets smack into the building and an grenades drop into the street . |
| 30 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |