Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 2 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 3 | Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) . |
| 4 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |
| 5 | This is even more apparent in the long necked birds such as the heron , which has one special vertebrae in the middle of its neck which enables it to thrust its head suddenly at unsuspecting fish . |
| 6 | They did n't bother much at other times unless asked , and then they often had to think twice . |
| 7 | Do-it-yourself practice compares the visible differences in sentences which are spoken naturally at normal speech but not exaggerated . |
| 8 | One hesitates to enter into the argument of whether co-operation and co-ordination should be processes which should be established at national level and work their way down to local level , or should be processes which should develop naturally at local level and work their way through regional to national or even international level . |
| 9 | The high proportion of symptomatic patients without detectable pathogens especially at early stages of HIV infection , and furthermore the poor correlation of infections and symptoms might be explained by an enteropathogenic role of HIV itself . |
| 10 | Watsonians ' pack — where Murray Rudkin won important two-handed ball stationed at two , especially at defensive lineouts — faded a bit in the second-half , though in Scott Aitken 's case there was legitimate excuse . |
| 11 | Only slightly larger than Snipe , differing chiefly in adult 's more conspicuous white at sides and tip of tail , also on wing , especially at trailing edge . |
| 12 | Peat moorland , especially at low altitude , was used in the past for cultivation , normally potatoes but sometimes cereals . |
| 13 | The adverse yaw and requirement for lots of rudder when initiating turns could catch the unwary , especially at low speed , but as Derek Piggott points out , if you can fly a Chevron it will make you as good a pilot as any . |
| 14 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 15 | With 400kg of front weights attached , the effort required to turn the wheel does increase markedly especially at low revs . |
| 16 | ‘ Our members have a great deal of sympathy with what is being done and they would not encourage tests to be taken by supply teachers or other teachers , especially at primary school level . ’ |
| 17 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 18 | Teachers ' salaries make up an increasingly large proportion of recurrent budgets , especially at primary level , with other expenditures pared down to almost nothing . |
| 19 | However , especially at primary level , salaries remain low , and pay rises have not kept up with inflation . |
| 20 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 21 | The fact is that most parents find discipline one of the most difficult parts of their job ; not a few find it an impossible task — especially at particular periods of their children 's lives . |
| 22 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 23 | In line with the pressures towards privatization within the economy as a whole , the state is increasingly ceding its role as provider of education , especially at secondary level , to the private sector . |
| 24 | But the combination of poor school facilities , extreme political tensions in schools and in townships , constant repression and security force interference , recent exclusions of children from school and scepticism about the value of ‘ Bantu education ’ all contribute to high drop-outs and low achievement , especially at secondary level . |
| 25 | The books that children use when they begin pre-reading activities and progress to reading itself offer much less fine and complex visual tasks than the textbooks used later on , especially at secondary level . |
| 26 | ‘ Private schools ’ has a narrow sense , now slightly archaic , in which it refers to schools run for profit by teacher-entrepreneurs ( a minority , especially at secondary level ) ; in this sense , the term ‘ private schools ’ is opposed to ‘ public schools ’ , which are not profit-making . |
| 27 | The Willses ' modesty about their own achievements has amounted to selfdisparagement , and their preference for understatement has made some of them seem uncommunicative , especially at large gatherings , and has masked their underlying good humour and quiet sense of fun . |
| 28 | The sheer efficiency of the drivers , especially at high volumes , can be disconcerting , and the sound is exceptionally bright . |
| 29 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 30 | Consciousness of the weakening of the sense of community , especially at local level , started to reawaken in the 1970s . |