Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of these protocols is that synchronized firing patterns at similar frequencies occur in the hippocampus during learning . ) |
| 2 | Cuts of 10 million tonnes a year are needed to freeze emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 3 | The report , which covers activities at all sites operated by the Company , underpins a new policy statement by BNFL which focuses attention on current environmental performance and potential improvement . |
| 4 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 5 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |
| 6 | For elderly people , grab rails at strategic places ( including the bathroom/toilet ) and use of a non-slip bath mat are devices likely to prevent accidents . |
| 7 | They have beaten all the top hurling powers at various stages in the last decade . |
| 8 | This entails appraising and selecting appropriate suppliers , being well informed about the purchasing market , purchasing goods at optimum prices in terms of value , and maintaining adequate stock/inventory supplies . |
| 9 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 10 | After spending 17 years in Congress hurling broadsides at foreign creditors and defending state enterprises , Mr Franco has changed course . |
| 11 | He is in his school sports teams and enjoys singing , having recently won prizes at two festivals . |
| 12 | There is , of course , room for disagreement about how much independence to grant children at different stages of their development . |
| 13 | The corollary is obvious : a printing office employing women at low wages to do straight setting could dispense with a number of ordinary linesmen , keeping on only a highly skilled minority of men at rather above normal wages to " service " the type set up by the women . |
| 14 | In the event , in a number of rural areas small-scale operators have managed to provide services at cheaper costs than have been managed by larger national firms , mainly because of lower overheads . |
| 15 | Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year . |
| 16 | Other families who provided JPs at different times , such as the Harcourts and the Hampdens , also feature among the Stonors ' correspondents ( 24 , i , facing 7 , 69–70 , 113–14 , 151 , ii , 57–8 ) . |
| 17 | There were a number of incidents where youths blocked roads with burning tyres , and started hurling stones at passing cars . |
| 18 | So far the company has installations at 12 hospitals , with many more contracts under discussion . |
| 19 | " Actually , I got scholarships at both universities . " |
| 20 | As companies continue to dispose of non-core subsidiaries , this next generation of MBI managers will have golden opportunities to acquire companies at realistic prices . ’ |
| 21 | To augment the tuition at the College , students had to traipse all over London to attend lectures at medical schools , and to hear additional veterinary lectures on private premises in the evening . |
| 22 | They may repeat operations at certain levels , ( a second interview or a re-offer ) ; they may double back , as when the company regrets them and later decides to re-establish contact ; and they may change vacancy . |
| 23 | I 've been going to the cinema ever since I was 7 years old and I 've seen fights at many films . |
| 24 | It makes all those dreadful school problems about taps filling baths at varying speeds seem easy ! |
| 25 | Length can be obtained by simple means : as one canon ends it can continue by voices changing roles — the following voice becoming the leading one — ; and perhaps register ; the polyphony can be altered to canon by inversion , or the parts move backwards in retrograde or as a crab canon ; we can have episodes where augmentation lengthens note-values or diminution shortens them , and towards the end a ‘ stretto ’ can bring imitations at closer intervals , giving a sense of culmination . |
| 26 | The project will contribute to the methodology of evaluating policy by the use of multilevel modelling , a technique that allows influences at different levels ( such as student , school , education authority ) to be more precisely estimated . |
| 27 | This removes any temptation to sell articles at different prices in different Member States . |
| 28 | In Presbyterianism it will be by attendance at the quarterly communions , and in Anglican Churches with a central or evangelical tradition the most accurate measure will be the numbers at Easter and possibly Christmas communion , although in some churches these two seasons will present difficulties if there is a tradition of members going away for holidays or to visit relatives at these times . |
| 29 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 30 | The Santerres stayed well away from Mandeville who stalked the galleries and corridors shouting orders at both servants and the dead sheriff 's soldiers . |