Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | Black phosphorus only occurs at high pressures-this is not shown in figure 6.9 . |
| 3 | Sophisticated software already exists at moderate cost to effectively undertake critical path analyses . |
| 4 | Given this data base the research perforce aims at conceptual rather than theoretical generalisation . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the effective coupling constant of the Salam-Weinberg theory , which is small at low energies , gradually increases at high energies because this theory is not asymptotically free . |
| 6 | The basic idea is that the effective coupling constant of the strong interactions , which is large at low energies , gradually decreases at high energies because of asymptotic freedom . |
| 7 | Even today the two-headed chimera ‘ Pound-Eliot ’ ( not in all ways chimerical ) still stalks at large in literary discourse . |
| 8 | The author examines the work of the three generations of the family and that of their competitors , Benedetto and Santi Buglioni , and also looks at glazed sculpture by Benedetto da Maiano , Rustici and Sansovino . |
| 9 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 10 | The book also looks at European policies , and considers the implementation of policy changes within a political and institutional context . |
| 11 | The input impedance also deteriorates at high frequencies . |
| 12 | Keith Pennyfeather , a senior countryside officer with the commission said : ‘ Much of the restoration being carried out on the Pennine Way inevitably occurs at remote sites a considerable distance from the nearest road . |
| 13 | The extract from the file on Tweed you sent with the courier made the point he often stays at top places because he thinks he 's less likely to be noticed . ’ |
| 14 | In the Western world , the use of computers is no longer novel in , for example , industry , commerce and banking , and the need for computer literacy is recognised to the extent that education for the computer age now begins at primary school level . |
| 15 | On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast . |
| 16 | He is ‘ loyal only to Nature in a vague way ’ ; he reads obscene books and then worries at frequent seminal emissions . |
| 17 | Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | City : OFT looks at industrial gas spot market option |
| 19 | The G M B currently negotiates at national level in industries as collective bargaining , but within the scope of the Wages Council . |
| 20 | This commonly occurs at high tide . |