Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point . |
| 3 | One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta . |
| 4 | When we are sitting or resting our blood pressure remains at a steady resting level . |
| 5 | In a deprived area of Slough there is a school where we have explained to children the importance of blood pressure monitoring at an early age . |
| 6 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |
| 7 | Einstein interpreted this result as follows : the motion of a neutral test body released at a given point in space–time is independent of its composition . |
| 8 | The production of the CH 3 · radical by flash photolysis of CH 3 I , for instance , has been monitored using a tunable IR laser set at a fixed frequency of 608.301 cm -1 , coinciding with the strong Q-branch of the ν 2 band . |
| 9 | During those infant years school and home life progressed at an unremarkable pace . |
| 10 | Her butterfly cap sat at a saucy angle on her black hair . |
| 11 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 12 | At the moment tunic tops are fashionable and these look well started with a tubular hem , a narrow jacquard border knitted at a lower stitch size than the main fabric or a garter stitch hem if you have a transfer lock . |
| 13 | At sea the ship can appear enormous , and even minor landing craft travelling at a brisk trot were a hazard to canoes , for the minor LC 's blunt bow pushed out a small wall of water . |
| 14 | ATV provided the first example in 1955 — 6 , as we have seen , with Mirror Group capital injected at a key psychological moment . |
| 15 | With 40 million people starving and infant mortality rising at an alarming rate , doctors must start pressurising governments and banks to stop this spiral of deprivation and environmental degradation in which the world 's poorest countries are trapped . |
| 16 | Lot number twenty two twenty two , the gilt-bronze and enamel model showing at a hundred and fifty pounds one fifty I 'm offered , thank you , one hundred and fifty pounds I 've got , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , ninety two hundred and twenty , forty , sixty two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds against you at three hundred , anybody else ? |
| 17 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 18 | Exploration of the Dalradian of Scotland for both baryte and base metal mineralisation continued at a high level . |
| 19 | The opening movement proceeds at a headlong tempo , and who but Cortot could drive the triplet ascents and descents after the brief second subject 's expansion with such a total disregard for anything other than their rhythmic force and inflammatory life ? |
| 20 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 21 | A water temperature held at a steady 70° F. |
| 22 | According to Blecher , ‘ Per capita grain production grew at an average annual rate of 3.7 per cent from 1978 to 1984 , compared to 1.2 per cent during the previous thirteen years ’ ( Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 100 ) . |
| 23 | The full board arrangement offered at a small supplement represents very good value . |
| 24 | Get a good quality recording made at a professional studio , but it is fairly costly . |
| 25 | The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance . |
| 26 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 27 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
| 28 | Subsequently the widths of the linear magnetic zones were related to the duration of each successive epoch of normal and reversed polarity on the assumption that the ocean floor spreads at a constant rate away from mid-oceanic ridges . |
| 29 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 30 | Capital expenditure continues at a high level , amounting to £54.9 million which compares with depreciation of £31.2 million . |