Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 2 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 3 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 4 | Double-sided adhesive pads are very useful for this purpose and are easily removed at a later date . |
| 5 | The committee deferred a decision on the application , and the matter will be further considered at a later date . |
| 6 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 7 | Lord Edmund-Davies similarly arrived at a narrower conclusion than Lord Diplock . |
| 8 | Without ever approaching that with the metropolis in magnitude , coastal trade between provincial ports probably increased at a faster rate . |
| 9 | There is even a gap in the centre with no flowers where the material marking the ford was probably removed at a later date to allow passage for the boats , leaving a silty bottom to the river in that place unsuitable for the growth of water crowfoot . |
| 10 | But broadcasting costs are more volatile than other costs and also rise at a faster rate so that even a licence fee increase which keeps up with general costs is an actual real decrease in its total value . |
| 11 | If we take into account the fact that women are now marrying at a younger age as well , twentieth-century families will be completed even earlier than the chart indicates . |
| 12 | If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats . |
| 13 | Earnings have consistently risen at a higher rate than prices , widening the gulf between the incomes of working people with average wages , and those dependent on state benefits . |
| 14 | At greater speeds they have a choice ; they can either swim at a greater depth ( away from the influence of surface drag ) or resort to their ‘ aquabatics ’ . |
| 15 | Thus , when the UK figure rises the Scottish figure will also rise but at a higher rate and likewise decrease at a faster rate when the UK figure falls . |
| 16 | It therefore boils at a higher temperature . |
| 17 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |