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 | It 's because it locks better at that groove . |
| 4 | The production cycle of a monthly magazine I once edited was over five weeks for features , news fared slightly better at two weeks , and these represent the time taken to get the magazine to the printer , not onto the newsagents shelves . |
| 5 | The heat loss in pumping water to the aquarium ( especially in trickle filters ) means that the filter unit can be run at 30°C or more , which makes the filter much more efficient since the nitrifying bacteria operate better at higher temperatures . |
| 6 | Raise the tank temperature to 70°F. before adding it as it works better at higher temperatures . |
| 7 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | A novice gets in better at this stage of his career than at any other , ’ he said . |
| 10 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |
| 11 | Far better at any rate , than in the diaphanous sweet-pea tinted frills in which her mother and Miss Ernestine Baker seemed intent on smothering her . |
| 12 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 13 | At the same time , even when the circuit performs better at some loudspeaker impedances than the traditional Class B circuit , it still has worse performance than that of Class S because of the low , yet varying impedance seen by the main voltage amplifier for all loudspeaker impedances bar one . |
| 14 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 15 | Pulling up suddenly at that height puts a sudden , uncontrolled load on the cable and often results in a cable break . |
| 16 | Suddenly at this culmination point in the healing rite , the whole assembly became unaccountably convulsed with mirth , and the puzzled anthropologist , note-book at the ready , pushed her way forward to the front of the crowd . |
| 17 | If it sits at the bottom of your belly , glowering like a smouldering fire , threatening to explode suddenly at any time and paralyse you ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 20 | They did n't bother much at other times unless asked , and then they often had to think twice . |
| 21 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 22 | After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time . |
| 23 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 24 | Increasingly Moran could be seen in the fields staring idly at some task he should be completing . |
| 25 | Do-it-yourself practice compares the visible differences in sentences which are spoken naturally at normal speech but not exaggerated . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Generally , these are active — apparently at one instant — and are not just " collected " by the structure of the pavement . |
| 28 | Apparently at one time he was married to a young woman who was jealous of another woman . |
| 29 | Apparently at this time Kington was also a popular starting point for tourists to Aberystwyth , with a daily stage coach for the sixty mile journey over the mountains . |
| 30 | A dozen or so well-bred men in dark suits — some of them , noted Dyson with interest , wearing Brigade ties — were standing about drinking gin and smiling agreeably at each other 's jokes . |