Example sentences of "[noun pl] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these have been used at one time or another but still the TL 072 op.amp seems to combine the best characteristics at a reasonable price . |
| 2 | It is recognised that it is almost impossible to correctly identify the characteristics of fast growers at a start-up stage but once a track record of two or three years data exists selection may be possible . |
| 3 | They teamed up for an after-show celebration after Elton and rock star Eric Clapton thrilled fans at a huge outdoor concert in New York . |
| 4 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 5 | However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) . |
| 6 | Treu [ 15 ] considered the existence of trails through bibliographic citations and thought they should be preserved for a searcher to retrace his steps at a later date . |
| 7 | Les Routiers are offering it to BBC Good Food readers at a special price of £6.99 ( including p&p ) . |
| 8 | The incentives for different social groups to create larger and more inclusive functional organizations at a national level strengthened the move towards post-liberal , non-individualist modes of representation . |
| 9 | A NORTH-EAST council is hoping to make waves at a top boat show . |
| 10 | For the same reason , if we ride fast on a ( preferably quiet ) motorbike past a wailing factory siren , when we are approaching the factory the pitch will be raised : our ears are , in effect , gobbling up the waves at a faster rate than they would if we just sat still . |
| 11 | If , in a given species , animals at a particular stage of their lives habitually live with relatives , then selection will favour altruistic acts that cause a net increase in the number of the relevant genes , whether or not an animal can recognize its own relatives . |
| 12 | They were said to be fearless swordsmen and able to shoot a man between the eyes at a hundred paces . |
| 13 | She now felt herself to be like the squirrel , staring with bright inimical eyes at a sad domestic beast . |
| 14 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 15 | He had lopped off the leaves and twigs at a joint so that it made a very crude crutch . |
| 16 | Drinkers at a new pub may see more than pink elephants hovering overhead if they have one too many this weekend . |
| 17 | They may therefore reduce output to , say , 80,000 units at a total cost of £340,000 , giving an average cost of £4.25 . |
| 18 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 19 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 20 | In each experiment the animals were kept in individual metabolic cages at a constant temperature ( 25 ( 1 ) °C ) with a 12 hour dark-light period and free access to water . |
| 21 | Digital watches work because a small sliver of quartz inside them pulses at a rhythmic and unchanging frequency , which is stimulated by energy from the battery . |
| 22 | They used a different laser that produces shorter , more powerful pulses at a shorter wavelength , which let them generate third , fifth and seventh harmonics . |
| 23 | Admittedly , the repetition of such similar patterns together can not be coincidental but , as with the mosaics from Newton St. Loe , this repetition is not always best explained by the presence of the same craftsmen at a different site . |
| 24 | Added to all this , to keep cannon , mangonels , battering-rams and other siege-engines at a safe distance from the first or gatehouse tower , an artificial trench had been excavated across the approach headland . |
| 25 | Although Edward attempted in September 1294 to tax the clergy at a national assembly of both clergy and laity , the clergy 's decision was postponed to their own provincial assemblies early in the new year . |
| 26 | Judging will take place in December with the winner selected from four finalists at a special awards dinner early in 1993 . |
| 27 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |
| 28 | The gathering was small but that did not diminish the effect of the occasion as two of only 12 remaining Scottish survivors — out of 500 Scots who fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War — gathered with district council representatives to pay their respects at a simple ceremony . |
| 29 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 30 | Elsewhere we have argued that part of what made René Lévesque and Lee Iacocca effective as leaders was the temporal significance of their vision : they appealed powerfully to the specific needs of specific stakeholders at a specific time . |