Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invariably such products are sold at a premium price quite unjustified by the cost of their components . |
| 2 | Even if the two lists are merged at a later date , the historical traditionally positive attitudes toward the European languages may continue to permeate the philosophy underlying the education system ( including the curriculum and examinations ) . |
| 3 | The similarity continues if people or animals are examined at a later stage . |
| 4 | To solve the problem , pulses are produced at a precise rate of 32,768 per second ( 32.768kHz ) by means of a crystal controlled oscillator . |
| 5 | Fossil fuel reserves are depleted at a frantic rate and materials are squandered to manufacture throw-away products for the short-term profit maximisation of a rapacious economic system . |
| 6 | The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford . |
| 7 | This one posts are erected at a hundred metre intervals on a motorway , how many posts are there in a distance of four thousand seven hundred kilometres ? |
| 8 | In each case , all bids are accepted at a common price , either the tender price or the minimum bid price accepted . |
| 9 | Would this lead to the principle of differentiation being accepted but used for different purposes , so that the goals of interest groups , rather than social welfare , dictate which commodities are taxed at a lower rate ? |
| 10 | During Lent , in the Orthodox churches , the gospels are read at a single sitting . |
| 11 | If evaluation is defined as assessing how effectively needs are met at a given cost , then precise identification of needs is obviously paramount , as the Guideline on Evaluation notes , most emphatically : ‘ Without proper identification of need , evaluation is meaningless ’ . |
| 12 | Additional awards were made at a later stage to three individuals who were unable to attend . |
| 13 | But in reality such protests were conducted at a low level in order not to interfere with normal , and reasonably good , relations which British foreign secretaries wished to continue and nurture with the offending nations . |
| 14 | A total of 98 governments were represented at a 10-day conference in London on June 19-29 held to agree revisions to the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer . |
| 15 | TWO members of staff at a Merseyside casino were sacked after pork pies were thrown at a late-night party . |
| 16 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |
| 17 | In the Zartmann experiment a narrow beam of vaporised metal atoms is directed at a rotating cylindrical drum ( see figure 3.9 ) . |
| 18 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 19 | Red wines are fermented at a higher temperature than whites to extract colour and tannin from the skins . |
| 20 | Under this system , health care providers are reimbursed at a predetermined price for each defined unit of workload , regardless of the actual cost involved in providing that unit of workload . |
| 21 | Under this system , health care providers are reimbursed at a predetermined price for each defined unit of workload , regardless of the actual cost involved in providing that unit of workload . |
| 22 | Major structural changes were approved at a plenary session of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) held on Oct. 3-4 . |
| 23 | Further constitutional changes were promised at a later stage which would place the relationship between the USSR and its constituent republics on a new and more equitable basis . |
| 24 | TALENTED North-East writers were honoured at a special ceremony last night . |
| 25 | The reports from these committees were presented at a special general meeting on 17 May , as follows : |
| 26 | These rooms are maintained at a fixed temperature , with set lighting and ventilation regimes . |
| 27 | The terms were endorsed at a five-minute Cabinet that afternoon . |
| 28 | Two Irish sisters were arrested at a rented house in Southall , West London . |
| 29 | Seven knots were achieved at a comfortable 2.200rpm . |
| 30 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |