Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchase of a call option on a futures contract gives the owner the right to acquire a long position in the futures contract at a set price ( the exercise or striking price ) during ( or at the end of ) a specified time period . |
| 2 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 3 | To produce 3 minutes inbound at a G/S of 112kts the required distance is 5.5nm. 6nm rounded off to a higher figure . |
| 4 | Driveways have spaces for two cars , front and rear lawns are turfed and owners of Les Jones homes arrive at a house or bungalow which is attractive and complete in every way - and not surrounded by a mass of mud as on so many new housing estates . |
| 5 | Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , the Malla Park near Kilpisjärvi is famous for its flora , and walkers can reach the three-countries stone , where the three Arctic Scandinavian countries meet at a single spot . |
| 7 | The present study shows that substantive uniformity , whether in the message that constitutes the text of the bill , or in the legal consequences attached to the recording , is only attainable when the various participants in the transactions arrive at a consensus with respect to the fairness of their rights and duties . |
| 8 | Runtime prices are £200 per seat for Unix and VMS , £100 for Macintosh and personal computer versions , but development licences start at a very hefty £12,000 for Unix — £9,000 for the Intel-based SCO and Interactive variants — and £7,000 for Mac and PCs . |
| 9 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 10 | Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels . |
| 11 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 12 | If such subliminal presentations can be shown to influence processing of subsequent information in anxious subjects , it would strongly support the suggestion that anxiety-related biases occur at a very early stage of information processing . |
| 13 | One possible hypothesis — in fact the correct one — is that three surfaces meet at a point projecting towards the observer . |
| 14 | The palm trees , freewas sand towers hint at a cross between LA and Nw York ; but the underclass characters — Wiff , Clem , Jacko , Horry , Mona , Athol — seem Australian . |
| 15 | On alternate days walk at a slower pace to help you build up a regular habit of walking . |
| 16 | Hence , when a number of observers look at a picture , a piece of apparatus , a microscope slide , or whatever , there is a sense in which they are all confronted by , look at , and so , in a sense , ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
| 17 | One mechanical method of damping the single-step response is to introduce additional viscous friction ( torque proportional to speed ) , so that the rotor oscillations decay at a faster rate ( Kent , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | The family and the media , it can be argued , both work at an ideological level in perpetuating inequality of the sexes , while firms which pay lower wages to female workers operate at a material level . |
| 19 | It turns out that the worms move at a rate which is unaffected by the intensity of illumination , but they change direction , to left or right , at a rate which does vary with light intensity . |
| 20 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 21 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 22 | Of course , stability is alternatively assured if the closed and open-loop plots intersect at a frequency at which the open-loop gain is less than unity . |
| 23 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |
| 24 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 25 | Rolle 's Meditations embody at a literary level his appreciation of the shaping energies of the form of the inner life . |
| 26 | There are also statutory covenants requiring landlords , of properties let at a low rent , to ensure that they are both fit for human habitation at the start of the tenancy and are kept fit for habitation throughout the lease : |
| 27 | These " Kerr " black holes rotate at a constant rate , their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation . |
| 28 | ‘ Did n't you say the fireworks begin at a quarter to midnight ? |
| 29 | Microwave cookers operate at a Frequency of 2450 MHz and a wavelength of about 122 mm — rather longer than Bates supposes . |
| 30 | The lower tier work centre committees operate at a level intermediate between workplace and zone ( the RENFE equivalent of the BR region ) . |