Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 2 | They need perhaps ten times as much computational power as a 3D system to work at a similar speed . |
| 3 | Ken is rowing at a constant speed , he covers eighteen metres in three seconds . |
| 4 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 5 | The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The area of surgery has expanded at an incredible speed from virtually from nothing three years ago to taking over as much as fifty percent or even seventy five percent of general surgery . |
| 8 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 9 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 10 | Having released Gary , Nails was swimming at a phenomenal speed after another victim . |
| 11 | It 's going at a steady speed . |
| 12 | So you 're going at a steady speed . |
| 13 | Right , B two if a train is going at a constant speed of ninety miles per hour how far will it go in two hours ? |
| 14 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 15 | ( i ) the speeding up of routines which would otherwise be too slow and impractical to be used : this is particularly significant in the area of graphics where large figures can be produced at a good speed and some reasonably large-scale movement becomes possible ( ii ) the addition of extra facilities not generally available in BASIC : for example , different forms of character input instruction , including timing , displaying a pre-stored picture ‘ instantly ’ , and automatic device initialization ( see next section ) . |
| 16 | All the nuclei in the body process at a , or rotate at a particular speed , according to whatever size magnetic field you put them in , and then you apply a radio frequency field to the body at the , at just that frequency , and if you tune things correctly , there is absorption of energy , and you can detect that . |
| 17 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 18 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 19 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 20 | The plane flying at a constant speed takes five seconds to go one thousand five hundred miles what |
| 21 | Processes such as indexing , sorting , extractive lists , spelling checks , etc. , should perform at an acceptable speed to a user . |
| 22 | If the sound is played at a different speed , only adjustment of the volume control is necessary to make it sound as it did before . |
| 23 | It was moving at an incredible speed through the green desert . |
| 24 | There were more horses coming now , less hurriedly than the advance party , but still approaching at a brisk speed from the Cross . |
| 25 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 26 | There are certain characteristics peculiar to the use of machines in language teaching : Listening To develop the ability to understand the language spoken at a normal speed . |
| 27 | For insects such as locusts , which migrate over vast distances , it is even more important to fly at an economical speed . |
| 28 | It is inevitable that tyres like that will blow out when travelling at a high speed . |
| 29 | It says if it was travelling at a constant speed of fifty miles an hour . |
| 30 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |