Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you split the firm up you will have a lot of small firms each producing at higher average cost , a waste of society 's resources . |
| 2 | And do you know when that stopped at all ? |
| 3 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 4 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 5 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 6 | Memory , therefore , played an increasingly large part in the artist 's new vision of the world around him , and this led at first to a great simplification of form . |
| 7 | Although this looks at first to be quite incomprehensible , it is actually quite a friendly little creature and most willing to assist you with either your work or play , as long as you take a short amount of time to learn a few basic commands . |
| 8 | None of this matters at all provided the ferrets work efficiently . |
| 9 | Here too the distinction was not absolute , and hides many other differences ; but the bulk of the lower clergy were half educated at best , and led quite a different life from their superiors . |
| 10 | However , if this occurred at all it is unlikely to have lasted long . |
| 11 | This finishes at six fifty . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) It is frequently possible that if one homoclinic orbit occurs at one parameter value , and another occurs at another parameter value , then certain general properties of an intermediate sequence of homoclinic orbits can be determined . |
| 13 | This occurs at great heights where atmospheric densities are very low , so that many of the liberated hydrogen atoms escape into space before colliding with oxygen atoms and becoming water molecules . |
| 14 | This occurs at high pressure . |
| 15 | They would seem to be of integral importance to any manager or coach handling black sportsmen , yet few theorize at any level other than the physiological or , more occasionally , the psychological . |
| 16 | The former occurs when one square is parallel with and another turned at 450 to the border ; the latter if both are turned , oppositely , through about 300 . |
| 17 | In the late tenth century Sigeric archbishop of Canterbury went to Rome to receive his scarf of office , the pallium of lambs ' wool which was the mark of an archbishop ; and this seems at that time to have been an immemorial custom of very recent origin . |
| 18 | This started at 2.30 pm , lasted for an hour and was under the direction of Mr. Ernest Russ , our Headmaster . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ This appears at first glance to be quite a simple scheme , until we come to actually explaining it to the customer . |
| 20 | thirty six erm thirty six this expires at half past four . |
| 21 | One lamp holder was then fixed in each compartment and the end of the lighting cable plugged into the shop mains , a socket for this provided at each stage . |
| 22 | This gives at best a very light contact , and in some cases none at all . |
| 23 | Few wander at random . |
| 24 | Peter and I agreed that the next step should be for us ( you ? ) to circulate the above topic/author proposals as an Aunt Sally to Paul and Jackie Schachter to see if this coincides at all with their thinking . |
| 25 | Words in category ( 2 ) seem to be confined to black speakers , though this remains at this stage an untested observation . |
| 26 | For this to happen at all , it was assumed , an ad would have to attract their attention . |
| 27 | This runs at 12 volts , and has two big advantages over normal lighting : the bulbs can be very much smaller ( and often come in small attractive fittings ) , and the light bulbs last longer , and are much cheaper to run . |
| 28 | You describe yourself as an intuitive rather than an analytical collector ; has this changed at all over the years ? |
| 29 | However , departures from this occur at lower values of z/L than one might guess on the basis of eqn ( 21.29 ) ; they are detectable for z/L above about 0·01 and very substantial when . |
| 30 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |