Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 2 | The money supply , measured by a broad definition , should only be allowed to increase at a stable and gradual rate , in line with the growth of the economy 's productive capacity . |
| 3 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 4 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 5 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 6 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 7 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 8 | But even though what was being contemplated was regionally restricted , it nevertheless went far beyond what these states , following the British line , had been willing to accept at the European level . |
| 9 | The old slate quarry here is one of the largest man-made holes in Britain , and such is the fascination that holes in the ground exercise on the mind of man that there are special viewing platforms where visitors may stand to gape at the awesome chasm . |
| 10 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 11 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 12 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 13 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 14 | I think that it was during this visit that Peter Duval-Smith tacked on to us when we were going to dine at the Turkish harbour . |
| 15 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 16 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 17 | Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit . |
| 18 | William was forced by the lie of the land to come at the Saxon strongpoint from the south . |
| 19 | Charlie is unaware of the spirits alive in him , so that the narrator of the story is frustrated in his attempt to come at the uncluttered account of past lives . |
| 20 | Whichever way I try to come at the Unknown Substance it remains just beyond my grasp . |
| 21 | It is like viewing an Impressionist painting , where the viewer is required to stand at a certain distance before the image comes into focus ; the bigger the individual strokes of paint , the further back the viewer has to stand . |
| 22 | They crossed the room to stand at the other side of the bed . |
| 23 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 24 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 25 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 26 | They need perhaps ten times as much computational power as a 3D system to work at a similar speed . |
| 27 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 28 | An adjustable reading stand is an essential piece of equipment for pupils who need to work at a close range . |
| 29 | If an employee is required to work at a new location and the distance between the old and new places of work is short enough to make commuting possible , organisations may not require employees to move their homes . |
| 30 | There has recently been a sharp rise of interest in artificial intelligence — very broadly the attempt to write computer programs to work at a human level of intelligence and performance in such tasks as identifying and recognising objects in cluttered environments , understanding ordinary human languages such as English , or diagnosing what is wrong in cases of human illness or machine failure . |