Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 2 | ‘ The award comes at a good time . |
| 3 | The case comes at an embarrassing time for the world 's largest industrial company , which is already deep in the red and under attack for its bureaucratic management style . |
| 4 | As well as being fully adequate at the beginning , the text ends at a suitable and sufficient point ; the possible significance of this can evidently easily be missed . |
| 5 | Two general reviews of the field presented at an introductory level are Bally et al. |
| 6 | As he knows , the decision made at an earlier stage not to complete the slip road was considered to be ludicrous . |
| 7 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 8 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
| 9 | Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal . |
| 10 | The action proceeds at a leisurely clip , filtered through Richard 's bemused and occasionally befuddled consciousness ( a disabling hangover gets a welcome tick on the checklist ) . |
| 11 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 12 | There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock . |
| 13 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 14 | In summary , the research aims at a detailed examination of the policy-making process . |
| 15 | If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
| 16 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 17 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |
| 18 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
| 19 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 20 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 21 | The ad works at a subconscious level too . |
| 22 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
| 23 | The coach stopped at a neat house in a quiet , shady street in north London . |
| 24 | The failure of the ITC to arrive at a negotiated settlement with its creditors , who claimed that they were owed a total of £513 million , led to a protracted battle in English courts [ see pp. 35293 ; 36635 ] . |
| 25 | Now let's use the spreadsheet to look at a real savings plan . |
| 26 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 27 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 28 | gave the funeral addresses at a secular service . |
| 29 | They are synergistic , which means they rely on each other in order to keep the body functioning at an optimum level . |
| 30 | These circulars , therefore , provided the DES with the evidence to substantiate its concern for the curriculum and the need to arrive at a national framework , presumably to correct the faults it saw . |