Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 This occurs at high pressure .
4 Few wander at random .
5 Two major types of wave are produced and these travel at different speeds .
6 These occurred at different times down the whole length of the front , from Haj Omran in the mountains of the north to the marshes in the south .
7 Gambling , football pools , fun-fairs , dog tracks , amusement arcades , dance halls , popular songs , street betting and speed-tracks were all attacked at different times in the interwar years for their demoralising influence , particularly on the young .
8 Thus capital , labour , output , and total consumption all grow at constant rates ( in the most straightforward case these rates are equal ) .
9 ‘ A £4 million manufacturing investment programme is under way for 1993 and the project engineering team is actively involved with production management and methods engineering in ensuring that the Group has the best available machines and equipment , all operating at maximum efficiency and quality of output , ’ said Phil Richens , department manager .
10 It ran in MkII guise from 1954 to 1955 , but its six wins all came at insignificant domestic races .
11 But they all arrived at different times , because Frith made sure that it would happen so .
12 There 're all based at head office .
13 We all started at different stages on the smaller mountain for beginners .
14 Fascinated to find that the floor , ceiling , and walls all sloped at crazy angles , Luce climbed the rickety stairs to Signor Candiano 's office .
15 This means that a business can easily work out what would happen if its sales , purchases , wages etc were all to change at different rates , with some going up and some going down .
16 So a lot of , a lot of them tell like fairy tales , a lot of people tell fairy tales for young , at young children , it 's all aimed at young children when they 're not old enough to understand what 's truth and what is n't they 're not old , they 're not in their own understanding yet when they 're children so they sort of , not in their conscious sense anyway
17 Consider , for example , a mechanical clock : its several cogwheels will all turn at different rates and it is almost an arbitrary decision to link some of these to ‘ hands ’ that tell us the passage of the seconds , minutes , hours , or lunar month .
18 For children receiving education at private schools , the structure is less pyramidal : A greater proportion of those educated at private schools proceed to university than those attending state schools .
19 This line of argument is bound to be disappointing for those looking at aetiological studies in search of implications for prevention .
20 All those serving at Upper Heyford are said to be shocked .
21 Tests on products packed in market packages involve samples stored at elevated humidities as well as those stored at elevated temperatures .
22 Second , the majority of those studying at British colleges are so-called " home students ' , which includes students from other European countries ( or more accurately , from countries within the membership of the European Economic Community ) .
23 MIPS ' operations meanwhile , are slowly being dismantled by SGI : US reports suggest that 450 of the 685 jobs at MIPS are to go , although there are plans to redeploy at least 250 of those lost at other SGI sites .
24 He was adamant that all dealings with Allied governments — even those transacted at distant points in the French Empire — should be referred to him .
25 That all teachers , particularly those working at secondary level , require work to make them aware of the nature of language , in addition to work on language in particular subject areas .
26 That all teachers , particularly those working at secondary level , require work to make them aware of the nature of language , in addition to work on language in particular subject areas .
27 But whereas that sells at medium price , this new-to- Britain Czech release from Le Chant du Monde is full price .
28 In an attempt to streamline its personal computer range , DEC plans to market the new Alpha and Pentium systems in parallel , with both offered at similar price points and configurations .
29 Light is an electromagnetic wave , produced by the interaction of a magnetic and electric field , both oscillating at right angles to one another in the direction of propagation .
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