Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 2 | The first movement has extraordinary expressive power and drama , with contrasts of mood very sharply drawn ; the Scherzo is a miracle of delicate playing at a very fast tempo ; and in the Andante Toscanini draws exquisitely tender and lyrical playing from the orchestra . |
| 3 | In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | During work on the building of the electricity pylons on Halling Marshes workmen digging out the footings for one of these discovered at a depth of 10 ft in the mud a dug-out canoe . |
| 5 | The Minister said that changes might be made by the trustees only with the approval of the Scottish Transport Group board and also with the approval of those voting at a meeting of members of the scheme . |
| 6 | Around half of those approaching social services , and 60% of those calling at a CAB , already had debts or direct deductions from their benefits . |
| 7 | When the technical skills of the big-budge filmmakers were combined with the ideas of those working at a lower level , the result was the possibility of a thriving national cinema . |
| 8 | A mean of the two with a multiplier of four arrived at a figure of two hundred and thirteen thousand , eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence . |
| 9 | Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control . |
| 10 | The government 's programme for 1992 aimed at a rate of gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth of 6.5 per cent , a reduction in the rate of inflation to 6-7 per cent and a strengthening of the country 's external payments position . |
| 11 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 12 | They were all eating miniature versions of proper food — a sliver of lamb like a lark 's tongue , a single braised spinach leaf , a mushroom tart no bigger than a cuff-link — like guests in a doll 's house , and trying to ignore the fact that the area around their table , which might have provided space for twelve to stand at a pinch , had now about 300 people in it . |
| 13 | Implementation of this part of the Criminal Justice Act is not only a challenge to joint working at a local level , it also straddles two central government departments . |
| 14 | The transition from Romanesque to Gothic proceeded at a variable speed in differing countries . |
| 15 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 16 | When Richard at last paused at a twist in the track he looked back to see the detective , red-faced and sweating , a hundred yards below him . |