Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] at different " in BNC.

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1 Farr calculated the contribution of workers to economic growth by estimating the future net earnings of labourers dying at different ages .
2 The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) .
3 Curtains that have linings sewn in will require dry cleaning in order to reduce the risk of lining and curtain fabric shrinking at different rates .
4 The figure can be an estimate or a calculation based on the specification of the media unit ; it is used to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds .
5 It is used by LIFESPAN to balance the workload between units operating at different speeds .
6 You can spend hours browsing through shops looking at different fabrics , but as well as considering rolls of material do n't forget to sort through remnants .
7 The consensual politics of the transition was manifested in a number of national compacts involving at different times government , opposition parties ( including the Spanish communist party ) , national unions and employers .
8 Authors whose surnames begin with Mac , or Mc , were dealt with in different ways under differing editorial policies operating at different times .
9 Authors whose surnames begin with Mac , or Mc , were dealt with in different ways under differing editorial policies operating at different times .
10 Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities .
11 In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place .
12 Since there are several such pairs of elements decaying at different speeds , it is possible to make cross-checks .
13 EAT pointed out that ‘ a contract of employment can not simply be silent on the place of work ’ and that ‘ the employers were in business as contractors working at different sites ; so the parties must have envisaged a degree of mobility ’ .
14 Some unfamiliar concepts , such as the fact that observers moving at different velocities measure different time intervals between the same pair of events , were not essential to the picture I wanted to draw .
15 How can observers moving at different speeds all measure light at the same speed ?
16 The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall .
17 The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall .
18 How does having their own individual time cause people traveling at different speeds to measure the same speed of light ?
19 The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process .
20 People moving at different speeds will not agree on the distance between two events .
21 Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light .
22 And , of course , there are very considerable differences in the proportion of people viewing at different times of day : in general , ITV ratings double between 5 pm and 8 pm , which is usually the peak viewing time .
23 Within the public sector we need to be aware of formal relations existing at different levels and we need to show how these organisations relate to each other .
24 It is , however , impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods : a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades .
25 However , the time lags involved in a relocation exercise — perhaps resulting from delays in obtaining and refurbishing new premises or from departments/sections moving at different times — can seriously affect recruitment and training plans .
26 Another company that specialises in off-piste courses and even ski touring staying at different hotels or in mountain refuges — is Fresh Tracks ( 081-335 3003 ) .
27 It is also possible to make more subtle combinations of the oscillations in the x and y directions in which the components are " out of phase " , their crests occurring at different instants .
28 This has the advantage for the medical profession of certainty , but does not allow for children maturing at different ages .
29 Although much more work needs to be done in this area , the impression gained by surveying a range of industries is one of foreign incursions occurring at different times with price being a significant element at certain stages .
30 The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) .
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