Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 2 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 3 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 4 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 5 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 6 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 7 | However once the unemployment rate has stabilized at a new , higher level , so too will the equilibrium rate of unemployment . |
| 8 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 9 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 10 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 12 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 13 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 14 | The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met . |
| 15 | ROWAN Atkinson has hinted at a return to TV for the villainous Blackadder in a fifth series of misadventures . |
| 16 | If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price |
| 17 | The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago . |
| 18 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 19 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 20 | In addition , the size of the bands indicates that at least one copy of the construct has been integrated into the interrupted beta-tubulin gene at the 3' end of the tubulin locus ( 7.4kb fragment ) , and that a second integration event has occurred at a PstI site within an intact beta-tubulin gene ( 5.8 kb band ) . |
| 21 | Mowing can usually be done less regularly during September as the grass starts to grow at a slower rate . |
| 22 | Business starts continue at a high rate , with more than 1,000 per week throughout the spring and summer under enterprise allowance alone . |
| 23 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 24 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 25 | An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming . |
| 26 | Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters . |
| 27 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 28 | As shown earlier , calcium phosphate starts precipitating at a pH of about 6 . |
| 29 | Hence rising unemployment should be correlated with falling inflation , but once unemployment has steadied at a new , higher level , so the rate of inflation will also steady at a new , slightly lower , but probably still unsatisfactory level . |
| 30 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |