Example sentences of "[pers pn] at a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So tres modere is and as the explanation gives you at a very moderate speed . |
| 2 | Alternatively , many charities or bodies such as the Scouts will be delighted to deliver through every letter box in the area for you at a very modest fee . |
| 3 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 4 | In the IR spectrum of this molecule already mentioned there is one strong absorption and a much weaker one associated with it at a slightly different frequency . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
| 6 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |
| 7 | It 's edited by Outdoor Action 's editor Laura McCaffrey and we are offering it at a very special price . |
| 8 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 9 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 10 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 11 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 12 | ‘ And I reckon it 's right — ’ I pulled a map from my pocket , spread it upon my desk and whacked my finger down on to it at a very particular spot ‘ — here . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 14 | Simultaneously the far more important question of relations with the American colonies , and of the moral justification of the demands which the mother-country was now making on them , roused intense feeling and stimulated widespread political discussion , much of it at a relatively high intellectual level . |
| 15 | Lest we seem obsessed with sex , we should point out that only 18% of our respondents ranked it ‘ very ’ important in their lives — with the largest group ( 47% ) putting it at a more discreet ‘ quite ’ important . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 17 | ‘ Verlander bought the land from me at a grossly undervalued price ! |
| 18 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 19 | The main purchasers of bills are the discount houses , which then sell many of them at a slightly higher price , to the banks . |
| 20 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 21 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |
| 22 | Hardest hit are those on lowest incomes , as employers are allowed to pay them at a specially designed low rate . |
| 23 | We need to move , at the same time that the property market is in a substantial slump , and th are therefore offices available to us at a very very competitive price . |
| 24 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |