Example sentences of "[vb infin] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 2 | Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance . |
| 3 | They have basic rights which you should respect at all times . |
| 4 | It reckons Unix will continue to dominate in the technical arena and says OS/2 will flourish at corporate sites where personal computer communications are important . |
| 5 | Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests . |
| 6 | These cards come equipped with their own VideoRAM memory which determines the number of colour the monitor can display at certain resolutions . |
| 7 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 8 | The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages . |
| 9 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 10 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 11 | Because they can borrow at subsidised rates , government-sponsored enterprises tend to grow until they dominate their field . |
| 12 | Under ‘ mass-production ’ conditions the industry was obliged to keep its labour-teams steadily employed , moving in a planned succession from one undertaking to another , and progressively brought down its costs to reach an ever-widening circle of demand for homes to buy or rent at economic figures . |
| 13 | His exhibition closes at Derby 's Metro Cinema on 1 March , but will no doubt appear at other venues soon . |
| 14 | His exhibition closes at Derby 's Metro Cinema on 1 March , but will no doubt appear at other venues soon . |
| 15 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 16 | Now what this meant in practice was that er y'know appropriate supervisors would appear at random intervals and give people tokens if they were wearing ear defenders , okay ? |
| 17 | And this is why it will be particularly damaging to introduce the tests proposed by the Secretary of State to monitor what children know and can do at fixed ages , 7 , 11 , and 14 . |
| 18 | Excursions : Enterprise have arranged much for you to see and do at reasonable prices . |
| 19 | ‘ So what did they do at these meetings ? ’ |
| 20 | With regular partial water changes , and plenty of food , they will grow quite quickly and will need thinning out as many will grow at different rates and need more space . |
| 21 | This may well be why older children do succeed at these tasks — they have independent resources on which they can rely — but it seems less convincing as a reason for the failure of younger children . |
| 22 | Shortly before the second anniversary of her wedding Mrs Tristan Gage suffered a miscarriage which kept her in bed for several cosseted days surrounded by every possible luxury and attention , including the embarrassed affection of her husband who had rather more idea how mares and hound bitches might feel at such moments than women , and the deep concern of her mother who , throughout her own twenty-six years of marriage had herself miscarried eight times . |
| 23 | British industry suffered a major crisis and needed to reorganise and rationalise at all levels . |
| 24 | It will spin at different speeds with less or more sand . |
| 25 | The brigade 's mission was to destroy the enemy , and the attack would begin at 0430 hours . |
| 26 | In common with other Intel coprocessors one device will run at all speeds up to 33MHz , the speed of Intel 's fastest 386DX chip . |
| 27 | Trains will run at regular intervals from 11am to 4pm . |
| 28 | Stories currently in circulation talk of the search for a printer mechanism that can run at 90 pages per minute ! |
| 29 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |
| 30 | The article also said that as this test only measured Phosphate levels from 1mg/1 upwards , it makes testing for Phosphate very difficult as problems can occur at lower levels . |