Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] at [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | But broadcasting costs are more volatile than other costs and also rise at a faster rate so that even a licence fee increase which keeps up with general costs is an actual real decrease in its total value . |
2 | K-ras gene mutations , by contrast with p53 , clearly occur at an earlier stage in the neoplastic sequence . |
3 | Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode . |
4 | Thus , when the UK figure rises the Scottish figure will also rise but at a higher rate and likewise decrease at a faster rate when the UK figure falls . |
5 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |