Example sentences of "[vb base] at different [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Many of the species arrive simultaneously during the early years , but grow at different rates .
2 A slightly more realistic approach recognizes that firms have life-cycles and that during different stages in their life-cycles they grow at different rates .
3 Not all magmas have the same composition , and magmas with different compositions melt at different temperatures .
4 They 're all at a different school all day , and they shop at different times … but you never see them in restaurants and why should n't they be ?
5 The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser .
6 Look at different lawyers , types of personal injury work and types of clients .
7 The correlation of colour with altitude means that the belts and zones and the smaller-scale features are largely associated with cloud tops that lie at different altitudes .
8 We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies .
9 These levels vibrate at different frequencies .
10 Another amazing fact is that crystals actually vibrate at different frequencies when they come into contact with other energy fields .
11 Two major types of wave are produced and these travel at different speeds .
12 It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us .
13 Arguments against screening included that other effects of hormone replacement therapy are as or more important when decisions on treatment are made ; that no agreement exists on when and whom to treat ; that measurements vary at different times and with different equipment ; and that there is little separation between the groups who will and will not suffer fracture in terms of bone mass .
14 Different varieties flower at different times ; you will find them described as early , mid-season or late flowering in catalogues and on the labels on most garden centres .
15 These factors clearly operate at different scales .
16 It is possible to use different techniques and arrive at different answers .
17 Finally , the index is intended to remedy one defect of the book , which is that topics , theories and approaches recur at different places as we go along .
18 Different currents move at different depths and with great variations in temperature .
19 Owls , like most birds of prey , start incubating their eggs as soon as they are laid with the result that the chicks hatch at different times .
20 You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train .
21 Children develop at different times and by overcoming different obstacles .
22 This possibility is avoided in the magnolia , as in many plants , by having eggs and pollen that develop at different times .
23 His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 .
24 The strategy would be to find that different objects fall at different rates and , likely as not , determine that two variables were mainly responsible — size and the shape of each object .
25 Of particular interest is the influence of the family and the mass media on the decisions teenagers take at different stages in their careers and how education and training schemes particularly need to accommodate them .
26 They occupy a variety of different sites and orientations ; molecules in different sites absorb at different frequencies .
27 Different individuals work at different speeds — you are more likely to achieve most if you can work at a speed which challenges you but which is not beyond your capacity to attain .
28 It is because observers vary in their skill and experience that we have devised two related ‘ observation kits ’ which work at different levels of detail .
29 I think there 's all sorts of er there 's all sorts of things that people do and they work at different levels .
30 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
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