Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 2 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 3 | DNA and protein were mixed at an approximate ratio of 2:1 . |
| 4 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 5 | The only medal we had ever won at a major championship since 1978 was the bronze we had gained at Stuttgart in the European . |
| 6 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 7 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 8 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
| 9 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 10 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
| 11 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 12 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 13 | The digested DNA ( 5 µg ) was treated with T4 DNA polymerase ( final concentration , 67 mU/ml ) at 15°C for 15 min in the presence of a high concentration of the four deoxynucleotides ( final concentration of each deoxynucleotide , 100 µM ) , extracted with phenol-chloroform , precipitated with ethanol , and self-ligated with T4 ligase at a low DNA concentration ( 10 ng/µl ) to circularize plasmid DNA . |
| 14 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 15 | If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception . |
| 16 | Industrialized villages were naturally most numerous in the North and parts of the Midlands , but even in the South some nineteenth-century rural communities were sustained to a large extent by wages earned at a particular craft . |
| 17 | A faint smile crossed Lancaster 's face , as though he was laughing at a cruel joke in dubious taste . |
| 18 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 19 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 20 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 21 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 22 | General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely . |
| 23 | An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on . |
| 24 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 25 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 26 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |