Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at a " in BNC.

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1 For comparison , omeprazole given subcutaneously at a dose of 30 mg/kg resulted in almost complete inhibition of acid output ( 12 ( 2 ) µmol/30 minutes ) and pepsin output ( 0.15 ( 0.04 ) mg/30 minutes ) .
2 Maid service can normally be arranged locally at a supplement .
3 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
4 Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level .
5 The same sort of thing , sadly , goes on at a higher level .
6 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
7 In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description .
8 The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement .
9 At An Lochan Uaine the route leaves the main track , turns right at a post marked blue , climbs the hillside and contours along with views across the valley .
10 The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd .
11 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
12 By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier .
13 The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses .
14 Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km .
15 So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot .
16 ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells .
17 None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever .
18 The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk .
19 Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage .
20 Years of irresponsible budgets have obliged America 's fiscal policy to work perversely at a particularly awkward moment .
21 Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier .
22 The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site .
23 That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance .
24 She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last .
25 An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted .
26 The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers .
27 In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper .
28 Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm .
29 Daughter Laura weighed in at a healthy 61b 4oz .
30 It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time .
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