Example sentences of "[pron] at a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother 's collection of family snapshots shows that , whereas most babies look much like any other babies until they begin to grow up a little , John looked recognizably himself at a very early age , thanks largely to his big smile , almost a grin . |
| 2 | For managers , the issue manifests itself at a more procedural level , and is now revolving around resource management . |
| 3 | And for cooking the tastiest casseroles , there 's a special ‘ Slow-set ’ facility which lets you leave the food to cook itself at a very low temperature over a long period . |
| 4 | So tres modere is and as the explanation gives you at a very moderate speed . |
| 5 | Alternatively , many charities or bodies such as the Scouts will be delighted to deliver through every letter box in the area for you at a very modest fee . |
| 6 | Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level . |
| 7 | Thus a cross-national study can tell us something at a more general level about how public enterprises ‘ work ’ . |
| 8 | In the IR spectrum of this molecule already mentioned there is one strong absorption and a much weaker one associated with it at a slightly different frequency . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
| 10 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 11 | This task is made all the more necessary by the fact that opponents of absolute holism often find it strongly counter-intuitive , not to say absurd ; although they can grasp it at a very general level , they have difficulty in imagining either how it could be developed , or what would make it plausible . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew there would be trouble at that roundabout — the road approaches it at a very acute angle . |
| 13 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 14 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 15 | ‘ And I reckon it 's right — ’ I pulled a map from my pocket , spread it upon my desk and whacked my finger down on to it at a very particular spot ‘ — here . ’ |
| 16 | It 's edited by Outdoor Action 's editor Laura McCaffrey and we are offering it at a very special price . |
| 17 | Simultaneously the far more important question of relations with the American colonies , and of the moral justification of the demands which the mother-country was now making on them , roused intense feeling and stimulated widespread political discussion , much of it at a relatively high intellectual level . |
| 18 | Lest we seem obsessed with sex , we should point out that only 18% of our respondents ranked it ‘ very ’ important in their lives — with the largest group ( 47% ) putting it at a more discreet ‘ quite ’ important . |
| 19 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 20 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 21 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 22 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |