Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
2 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
3 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
4 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
5 | Judging from remarks between Mr Carnwath , Mr Steele ( QC for Dyfed County Council ) and Mr Burrell , the prevailing view is that the inspector will find against McAlpine , but that the company will seek a Judicial Review in the High Court , where the arguments will recommence at a rarefied legal level . |
6 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
7 | The money supply , measured by a broad definition , should only be allowed to increase at a stable and gradual rate , in line with the growth of the economy 's productive capacity . |
8 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
9 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
10 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
11 | In some situations holiday arrangements might be organised at a lower level in the organisation , particularly in specialist areas , such as operating theatres , where interchange of staff between departments is less easy . |
12 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
13 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
14 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
15 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
16 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |
17 | The digested DNA ( 5 µg ) was treated with T4 DNA polymerase ( final concentration , 67 mU/ml ) at 15°C for 15 min in the presence of a high concentration of the four deoxynucleotides ( final concentration of each deoxynucleotide , 100 µM ) , extracted with phenol-chloroform , precipitated with ethanol , and self-ligated with T4 ligase at a low DNA concentration ( 10 ng/µl ) to circularize plasmid DNA . |
18 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
19 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
20 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |
21 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
22 | Remains are scarce as most of the work has been rebuilt at a later date . |
23 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
24 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
25 | MPs may be worked up over tonight 's vote , but Merseyside 's comedians in gyms , golf courses and top hotels whiled away the day laughing at a brave new Europe full of German humour , Italian efficiency and French bathing habits . |
26 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
27 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
28 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
29 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
30 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |