Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time . |
| 2 | Proof indeed that the Prehen youth policy might soon yield rewards at a higher level . |
| 3 | Publishers want safeguards at a practical level to ensure that it does not open the floodgates to returns of all kinds . ’ |
| 4 | TWO brothers at Chapelcross both won awards at a recent presentation by the Institution of Measurement & Control . |
| 5 | If an individual has problems at a particular stage he or she tends to regress to an earlier stage and to be dominated , or fixated , by the behaviour and attitudes of that stage . |
| 6 | Thus the development of the mix to meet conditions at a particular point or period in time is essentially a contingency approach to marketing management . |
| 7 | But , in order to maintain the services to our members , unions will probably still have to increase rates at an annual basis . |
| 8 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 9 | The emphasis on the desirability of academic detachment — however rarely achieved in practice — has had the effect of disengaging pupils at a personal level from what they are studying . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs . |
| 11 | And the examiner was arrested only after he made passes at a military policeman 's wife . |
| 12 | The core distribution business , providing a kind of mail order service in components , put in a firm performance , thanks to improved margins on the many small orders people make in a recession , and reduced losses at a new German start-up . |
| 13 | The Norwich City Council wanted to get a licence to be able to sell intoxicants at a new pop centre they were going to open , mainly for young people , and was a member of the Labour Party , incidentally , and and a County Councillor , one of the City Wards , had the cheek to go and oppose the whole of Norwich City Council |
| 14 | Her marriage troubles appeared to be firmly under wraps as she told delegates at a Motor Neurone Disease Association conference in Solihull : ‘ It is good to be here again and it is nice of you to have me . ’ |
| 15 | Provisional agreement has also been reached to open terminals at a further six Sainsbury sites and future negotiations could lead to the service becoming available at several other stores . |
| 16 | Although technology can not realistically take a back seat , we will try to tackle concepts at a simple level . |
| 17 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 18 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 19 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 20 | Shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley told voters at a mass rally on Oxford 's Blackbird Leys estate that the area needed more policing and more jobs . |
| 21 | The Art Newspaper has made enquiries at a high level in Spanish central government , museum and ayuntamiento circles , and no one has heard of Mr Khalili 's offer . |
| 22 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of spider riders may carry shields at an additional cost of +1 points per model . |
| 23 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 24 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Forest Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 25 | OPTIONS : Any Mobs of Night Goblins may carry shields at an additional cost of +½ point per model . |
| 26 | Analysing RFLPs may identify alleles at a particular genetic locus that are associated with a clinical phenotype . |
| 27 | Underlying all four scenarios is a pessimistic view of the economy 's ability to create jobs at a fast enough rate to match the growth in productivity brought about by new technology . |
| 28 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 29 | However , John Elliott ( 1981 ) has systematically researched attitudes at an 11–18 mixed comprehensive school set in a high-technology area and found strong support , among the parents who had selected the school at that time , for a balanced education which regards personal and social development as at least as important as academic development . |
| 30 | In the UK methane gas from a London rubbish dump , which has almost half the calorific value of natural gas , is being used to fire bricks at a nearby factory . |