Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , estimations of the rate of climb based on either the Vertical Speed Indicator , or the Altimeter should be used with caution as these instruments are susceptible to manoeuvre errors ; Airspeed Indicators are also affected , and none of these instruments should be used for the assessment of instantaneous values , or rates of change , during a manoeuvre . |
| 2 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 3 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 4 | Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl . |
| 5 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 6 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 7 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 8 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
| 9 | But his blood seemed to be flowing at twice the normal Speed and he stood carefully , so that he could see the doorway . |
| 10 | Standard disc drives can not duplicate the ‘ I can not read that ’ instruction because the unreadable sectors have data written on them at twice the normal speed . |
| 11 | Her blood seemed to be pumping through her veins at twice the normal speed . |
| 12 | One lucky spin-off from the system is that it reproduces intelligible sound at normal pitch , when the tape is played back at twice the intended speed . |