Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 2 | It is interesting to note that high spring tides occur at approximately the same time of the day every year in each location on the coast . |
| 3 | It is worth spending a few minutes looking at how the waves are breaking and picking the best place and time to launch . |
| 4 | A little way above his head , and maybe a few metres back , is a crossed pair of microphones with their elements set at exactly the same distance as his ears . |
| 5 | Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community . |
| 6 | Each information officer will have a mix of new writing and rewriting , both short items and long items , as well as special research projects to look at how the information system is used in bureaux . |
| 7 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 8 | The problems of making extrapolations arise at both the behavioural and the neurological level . |
| 9 | Anchorians peaked at just the right time to win Division A of the Peroni League , while Oxford University have one of the country 's best outdoor coaches pulling the strings . |
| 10 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 11 | What the verdict of ‘ lack of care ’ presupposes is that some other persons had at least the opportunity of rendering care ( in the narrow sense of that word ) which would have prevented the death . |
| 12 | Parallel upheavals occur at roughly the same time in jazz , where modern styles , and , in a different way , the revivalist movement , challenge the hegemony of crooners and commercial dance-bands ; and in elite music culture , where the earlier modernist outburst , headed by Schoenberg and Stravinsky , is matched by the iconoclasm of the post-war avant-garde led by Boulez , Stockhausen and C age . |
| 13 | In other words it provides the context , but the actual shape and form of local politics is the outcome of a whole number of processes operating at both the local and the national level . |
| 14 | Summer holidays arrive at just the wrong time for gardeners . |
| 15 | Unless means can be found for experienced teachers to have at least the equivalent of a whole year studying for a Master 's level retraining , the partially sighted will be leading the blind . |
| 16 | Other themes reappeared at approximately the same time , but from quite different sources . |
| 17 | So far only Berghaus , Karrimor and Phoenix — though the latter only in their ski-wear for now — are using the lining for a range of jackets and sweaters aimed at both the technical outdoor and leisure markets . |
| 18 | Do children develop at roughly the same rate ? |
| 19 | Do children develop at roughly the same rate ? |
| 20 | Her children knew at once the sort of things that these would be . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction . |
| 23 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 24 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 25 | Cold dark-matter particles move slowly — hot ones move at nearly the speed of light . |
| 26 | They lack the remote aspirations of human beings for which , presumably , a linguistic grasp of categories involving at least the present and future would be necessary . |
| 27 | According to social security legislation , a " seasonal worker " is a " person whose employment is for part or parts only of the year and those parts fall at approximately the same time each year . " |