Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the glass an official from the Political Branch scowled at a worried-looking black . |
| 2 | Despite similar appeals by government officials , public discontent remained at a high level , and most workers continued their strike . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Needless to say , electronic interviewing remains at an early stage in its development . |
| 8 | Sometimes , in His slow journey across the shores of Infinity , He moves His country-sized head to snap at a passing comet . |
| 9 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I 'll say is that only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird . ’ |
| 11 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 12 | A TEENAGE student appeared at a special youth court yesterday charged with murdering his 38-year-old mother and 67-year-old grandmother . |
| 13 | Once again we return to the old advice to practise at a safe height . |
| 14 | Although her much earlier work of semi-architectural constructions on a theatrical scale hinted at a different sort of audience participation , away from that of the story telling object , it has taken till now for her to challenge the viewer in an open way . |
| 15 | The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge . |
| 16 | These confer the right — but not the obligation — to buy or sell the foreign currency required at a pre-determined rate . |
| 17 | The British Presidency comes at a turning point in the Community 's history . |
| 18 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 19 | So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It recognises that money has a time value by discounting future cash flows at an appropriate discount rate . |
| 22 | When cleaning carpets and tiles always keep the multi-purpose nozzle moving at a steady pace . |
| 23 | They quote the comprehensive review by Haggard and Hughes , which states that glue ear probably causes considerable disability only if it results in persistent impaired hearing starting at an early age . |
| 24 | This is shown , for example , by the following resolution passed at a special general meeting in 1896 : That recognizing as we do the natural aptitude for teaching deaf children which characterizes the well educated deaf we urge , in the name of justice or fair play , that every facility should be provided for their employment as teachers in our deaf and dumb institutions and day schools , more especially in those in which the combined system is being followed . |
| 25 | If annual incidence is equal to annual outcidence ( water is pouring into the sink at the same rate as it is emptying ) , then annual prevalence remains at a stable , unchanging level ( the water level in the sink is constant ) . |
| 26 | Average height achieved at a given age is a sensitive measure of the nutritional status of a population . |
| 27 | By mid-century , a standard format had been devised which allowed a long-service civil servant to retire at a minimum age of 60 on a pension equal , at maximum , to two-thirds of his previous salary . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The boost to disposable income comes at an awkward time , when the economic slowdown is not sufficiently well-established to have even begun to close the trade gap ; but the structural change is welcome . |
| 30 | 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 . |