Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate .
2 The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site .
3 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 ) .
4 Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level .
5 THE RUC are investigating allegations of drug dealing at a leading Belfast grammar school .
6 More familiar than detailed critical self-reflection on the level of individual courses are the corporate processes of decision making at the institutional level .
7 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 .
8 Examples included too many groups of activities running at the same time and an emphasis on individual work which could not be sustained in sufficient depth for all the children in the class .
9 In June he dismissed a letter from President Havel of Czechoslovakia protesting at the human rights situation in Cuba as " ignorant of our country 's problems " .
10 This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
11 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
12 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
13 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
14 This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care
15 With the basket of stocks trading at a combined price of £12.70 yesterday , the puts , exercisable at a strike price of £14.09 and initially costing 117p apiece , carried a mid-price of 203p .
16 In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people .
17 Finally , an extraordinary group of figures parading at a masked ball by Giovanni Antonio Guardi is estimated at £180,000–200,000 ( $275,000–306,000 ) .
18 The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on .
19 Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ?
20 The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) .
21 In climbing down from Mount Olympus and passing over these concentric circles , you can imagine you are tracing the path of magma rising at the mid ocean ridges , eventually to spew through vents , producing large quantities of mineral ore .
22 This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper .
23 They give some impression of the life and environment of the wealthy and influential but cause one to forget , or overlook , the lives of the majority of people living at a lower level of survival — a majority that probably includes the makers of the art object .
24 The purpose of the research project is to examine the effects of profit sharing at the microeconomic level .
25 There will be a handful of players operating at an international or ‘ multilocal ’ level , exploiting the benefits of size through the transfer of knowledge and resources and the efficient use of capital .
26 This is particularly the case for a Conservative government aiming at privatisation and the reduction in controls , an ample supply of land for private development , and the retention of land-use planning at the local level .
27 With emissions of oxides of nitrogen increasing at a faster rate than sulphur dioxide emissions , nitric acid will increase in relative importance in its contribution to acid precipitation ( Lewis and Grant , 1980 ) .
28 The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class .
29 Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised .
30 Such a surface therefore consists of a large number of tubes emerging at a fine angle so as to present an array of slanting holes .
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