Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mating hum of the female is at a frequency of about 500 hertz and she only produces sounds at this pitch when she is ready to mate . |
| 2 | Choose teams for bulk work providers that are large enough to include lawyers at different levels , and small enough for expertise and client contact to build up . |
| 3 | Avoid specific terms unless they are further defined ( eg using definitions at 1102.22 ) |
| 4 | In particular there are prominent naturally occurring peaks at 1461 keV caused by gammas from potassium-40 ( 40 K ) and at 2615 keV from thallium-208 ( 208 Tl ) which provide important landmarks when identifying the various peaks appearing in the detector . |
| 5 | EPA Administrator William K. Reilly stressed that the findings were " by no means a crisis " because the agency survey only targeted households at high risk of elevated lead levels either because they are served by municipal water lines made of lead or have interior piping made of lead or copper with lead solder . |
| 6 | She does n't much like machines at all , in fact . |
| 7 | To make the appointment a full time one , perhaps encapsulating teams at all levels would require sponsorship to meet the necessary salary . |
| 8 | The system used here also has no mechanically moving parts at all , apart from the player 's fingers ! |
| 9 | There were , for example , no through trains from the East India Railway to the Oudh and Rohilkan railway , and pilgrims together with other travellers had all to change trains at Moghalsarai junction , a mere ten miles from the great pilgrim city of Benares ( now Varanasi ) . |
| 10 | So did efforts at civil service reform . |
| 11 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Whereas it has been axiomatic throughout the working lifetimes of many now engaged in the administration of criminal justice that a police officer should never , save in exceptional circumstances , even address questions to a suspect after he has been charged , the Serious Fraud Office , which is by statute required to have regard to Code C , is asserting a contradictory power not only to ask questions at such a time , but also to penalise the applicant for any failure to reply . |
| 13 | The UK , the second largest emitter , is one of those " like France and Italy " seeking only to stabilise emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 14 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 15 | Some do not tax gains at all . |
| 16 | ( Lecturers at the Open University do not normally give lectures at all ; they produce correspondence material for their students , as well as working with BBC colleagues on the production of radio and television programmes . ) |
| 17 | I can not choose something as an end simply because a wiser man tells me I would want it if I understood myself better , because I can not choose ends at all by inferring from facts about my inclinations ; the choice of an end is nothing else but the spontaneous settling of inclination in one direction or other , and the honest or self-deceiving interpretation of its goal . |
| 18 | Four per cent — 18,000 seven-year-olds -could not do sums at all . |
| 19 | Most travel writers are not travel writers at all . |
| 20 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 21 | Consequently , mental phenomena could emerge from a physical system which does not contain neurons at all , if its physical components were arranged together in a particular way . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd known my score was 4998 not 496 I might not have runs at all . ’ |
| 23 | Most beginners who follow the guidelines on filtration and stocking we will suggest in the second part of this article , will not have problems at this end . |
| 24 | If they are not prepared to accept them jointly , they should not have children at all . |
| 25 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 26 | The great majority of women limiting their families did not attend clinics at all but learnt from their neighbours , friends , or literature . |
| 27 | Charities would be better off encouraging people not to send cards at all , and instead post the money they save straight off to the begging bowl of their choice . |
| 28 | ‘ At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’ |
| 29 | They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night . |
| 30 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |