Example sentences of "of [v-ing] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Pollitt reported to the Central Committee of the Party in January 1936 that : We fight to affiliate as an organised Party , campaigning for united action on the part of all workers organisations , for a change of policy that corresponds to the desires of the Labour Party members , and that also opens up the perspective of realising at a later stage one united working class political party . |
| 2 | The reason I ask is this ; Last season my club achieved promotion in the Courage League and naturally all the players were very pleased and excited by the prospect of competing at a higher level of rugby . |
| 3 | He is confident that given five years and more know-how , Russia will have international companies capable of competing at a global level . |
| 4 | So his lack of faith was not a matter of failing to straddle an impossible credibility gap , but of baulking at a simple step of trust on the evidence of inescapable reasons . |
| 5 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 6 | It is n't a graphics accelerator , but it 's capable of moving at a decent lick when put on a fast bus . |
| 7 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |
| 8 | ‘ Believe me , I 've done the trip half a dozen times , and the novelty of arriving at a new port never wears off . ’ |
| 9 | We said in the chapter that this was done through the medium of arriving at a written-down cost or value . |
| 10 | In Chapter 3 we discussed briefly employee theft , and , in particular , Ditton 's study of fiddling at a factory-production bakery . |
| 11 | Camcorders vary in their ability to produce a good picture in low light , but any model capable of working at a light level of 10 lux or less will enable you to record in most interiors without the need for additional lighting . |
| 12 | One of the pleasures of a short break is the luxury of shopping at a leisurely pace . |