Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coming two years sales are targeted to continue at an even faster rate , contributing an extra 9.5 billion to the Exchequer by April 1988 . |
| 2 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 4 | In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb . |
| 5 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 6 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 7 | In the US , insider trading law has evolved at a much faster pace than any other country . |
| 8 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 9 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 10 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 11 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 12 | I shall start by considering in section 4.3 some variables which are characteristic of Belfast English , but which seem to function at a somewhat higher level of generality than those that we have mentioned so far — as identity markers for the community as a whole rather than for internal differentiation within it . |
| 13 | Ellen turned to look at the rapidly disappearing Dream Baby . |
| 14 | I 'd like to manage at the very highest level and pit my wits against the best . |
| 15 | As a result , changes have occurred in adoption procedures , and couples have to apply to adopt at a much younger age , and go through rigorous and lengthy assessment procedures . |
| 16 | In 1912 the Palace Girls were selected to represent all Tiller Girls when they were greatly honoured by being invited to perform at the very first Royal Command Performance . |
| 17 | Piaget attempts to map the increasing capacity for abstraction implied by the symbolic function , showing that in this development , language , which depends on an entirely conventional relationship between sign and signified , is bound to come at a relatively late stage . |
| 18 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 19 | Atherosclerosis appears to proceed at a more rapid rate and is more extensive in the diabetic ( Crall & Roberts , 1978 ) , but the process does not differ in its morphological appearance nor in its anatomical distribution compared to the non-diabetic ( Strandness et al , 1964 ; Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 21 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 22 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 23 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 24 | Schemes such as the furniture stores would have operated at a much more modest level whereas now they are the main providers of this service in the city . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the farmers could have bought at a slightly higher price certified seed , which , being certified , was less likely to be suffering from the virus which affected the seed actually bought . |
| 26 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 27 | In fact , you 're probably thinking that it could n't have arrived at a less propitious moment . ’ |
| 28 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 29 | Carry On Cruising followed at the not inappropriate speed of knots . |
| 30 | I 'll have to stay at the very least an hour . |