Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 2 | To coach them better , to give them better opportunities , to give them better opportunities to play at a higher level , to be more competitive rather earlier in their lives . |
| 3 | Words with an early age of acquisition tend to be highly concrete ( imageable ) while words acquired at a later age tend to be abstract . |
| 4 | In SPAR , however , reference resolution is able to overturn any preferences applied at an earlier stage . |
| 5 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 6 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 7 | On alternate days walk at a slower pace to help you build up a regular habit of walking . |
| 8 | One mechanical method of damping the single-step response is to introduce additional viscous friction ( torque proportional to speed ) , so that the rotor oscillations decay at a faster rate ( Kent , 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Media-only appointments increased at a faster rate than those involving creative and full service during the year . |
| 10 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 11 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 12 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 13 | He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side . |
| 14 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 15 | A follow-up meeting in December of that year acted upon suggestions made at the earlier gathering , and aimed to ‘ set up opportunities for women to explore new approaches to theatre-making that more profoundly reflect their own experience rather than that of men ’ . |
| 16 | The epithets " naughty " and " dirty " arise , perhaps reinforcing terms used at an earlier stage as regards the eliminatory functions or inadvertent sexual display . |
| 17 | At a muddy little pond halfway up the hill swallows were dive-bombing its insect life and three brown pigs browsed at the further end of the meadow . |
| 18 | But in the same period the Government has increased the rate of national insurance contributions from 6.5 to 9 per cent , and , because these rates start at a lower threshold than taxation , the net effect has been to mitigate the changes in income tax . |
| 19 | His rivals work at a quieter pitch , making art that is predominantly abstract . |
| 20 | However , some skins had long side-burns terminating at the lower jaw . |
| 21 | This is particularly important if any query arises upon any of the answers given at a later date . |
| 22 | Other genes change at a higher rate , presumably because natural selection is more tolerant of variations in them . |
| 23 | Implementing decisions taken at an earlier gathering [ see p. 39115 ] , delegates also approved a " shadow government " by electing a three-member presidential council ( one Kurd , one Shia and one Sunni ) , with rotating primacy , which then chose a 25-member executive committee ( one Assyrian , one Turkoman , five Kurds , the remaining 18 seats divided between Shias , Sunnis and Arab tribes ) . |
| 24 | To allow pupils to start at an earlier age , teaching will start in P6 , though our system is designed to cope with entrants at P7 and S1 as well . |
| 25 | There 15 some evidence that children perform at a higher level in their reading when they are really interested in what they are reading about ( Belloni and Jongsma , 1978 ) , and project work would seem an ideal area in which this could happen . |
| 26 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |
| 27 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 28 | Others intercede at an earlier stage , working along the routes that the municipal trucks take . |
| 29 | The biggest increases in growth rate between the two periods , however , occurred largely in counties situated at a greater distance from London , namely ( in rank order ) Northamptonshire , Isle of Wight , Lincolnshire , Dyfed , Gloucestershire , Devon , Dorset and Hereford & Worcester . |
| 30 | Franklin even added point ( excuse me ) to the argument about whether pointed or knobbed lightning rods may be preferable when he showed that blunted ones acted at a greater distance . |