Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 32 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 33 | In Keynesian economics , this increase in aggregate demand occurring at an initial state of full employment will simply raise prices : there will be no output response even in the short run . |
| 34 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 35 | The Joyces returned to Ireland in 1909 , and William was brought up a Roman Catholic and educated at a Jesuit college where he excelled in Latin , French , and German . |
| 36 | He was educated at a private school and later at the Bellevue Academy , Greenwich . |
| 37 | Educated at a private school in Norton near Sheffield , Gaskell was apprenticed as a clerk to Yates & Cox , Liverpool iron merchants and nail-makers , in 1827 . |
| 38 | Helena was educated at a French boarding-school in Neuville , and then at Notting Hill High School . |
| 39 | He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England . |
| 40 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 41 | Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school . |
| 42 | Jilly Fox had been educated at an expensive boarding-school . |
| 43 | Thus , if changes appear at an early stage it may be necessary to carry out more frequent testing ; alternatively , the reverse situation may apply . |
| 44 | Using the special version of the DIM statement to reserve an area of memory is the simplest way for short programs which do not have to be located at a particular memory address . |
| 45 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 46 | Two further introns were included in our comparisons : the second LSUrRNA intron from P.wickerhamii , which resembles Pw ri1 in sequence and secondary structure , and ri2 from Scenedesmus obliquus mitochondria , which is located at an identical position as ri2 from P.wickerhamii ( 21 ) . |
| 47 | The other party would then win at a subsequent election , enter office and largely undo the work of its predecessor , implementing instead its own program . |
| 48 | Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick 's Swan , reaching below nostril at an acute angle . |
| 49 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 50 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 51 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 52 | She has suffered poor health from time to time , but has fought back to establish a variety of activities in her retirement including stewarding at a National Trust property and giving practice interviews to pupils from Tiverton school . |
| 53 | However , landing at a natural rock jetty is possible in good conditions . |
| 54 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 55 | Flat-footed water lilies balance at the far end , quivering at a sudden movement , a bird diving . |
| 56 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 57 | Schizophrenia , or split personality , is the most common serious mental illness and studies carried out so far hint at a genetic link , although no susceptible genes have yet been identified . |
| 58 | The six have admitted the charges , committed at a rented factory in Burn Road , Hartlepool . |
| 59 | In spring , either dig up the shrub and replant at a deeper level , or mound soil round its base so that only the upper half of stems is exposed . |
| 60 | Since you are not connecting up at this stage , the rising main can be installed at a leisurely pace . |