Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 2 | In the distance , ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace , the wheels spinning around . |
| 3 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 4 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 5 | The Scots aimed at a federal system which would allow them some autonomy . |
| 6 | The Labour dissidents failed at a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party , by 112 votes to 46 , to commit Labour to oppose an independent bank during the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 7 | Words with an early age of acquisition tend to be highly concrete ( imageable ) while words acquired at a later age tend to be abstract . |
| 8 | Most , perhaps all , functionalists are thorough-going materialists who believe that mental phenomena are genuine physical phenomena seen at a particular level of abstraction . |
| 9 | Six hundred youngsters gathered at a massive party to help raise cash for the clinic — now the most successful in the world . |
| 10 | One hastily written poem in Wordsworth 's meditative manner , ‘ Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House ’ , was delivered to Dorothy by young Basil as the Quantock spring was at last arriving : |
| 11 | EMERGENCY telephones have been vandalised and automatic barriers damaged at a level crossing at Moira railway station , police said today . |
| 12 | A coroner has recorded an accident verdict on a nine year old boy who was killed when two chair-lifts collided at a Californian ski resort . |
| 13 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 14 | The previous remarks have raised some questions about the relations between human norms and possible underlying dispositions determined at a biological level . |
| 15 | So are silk waistcoats and blazers priced at a knock-down £45 . |
| 16 | Pictures of stars who have made most contribution to the music industry over the last 25 years featured at a glittering party in New York 's Four Seasons Restaurant . |
| 17 | Tokyo : Stocks closed at a new high for the second consecutive day . |
| 18 | Tokyo : Stocks closed at a new high for the second consecutive day . |
| 19 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 21 | This convention requires careful interpretation for local vectors , i.e. vectors measured at a given point in space . |
| 22 | Compulsory membership of a trade union , in force since 1936 with only a brief interlude , was to be abolished , and employers were to be released from their obligation to recognize or negotiate with unions or to be bound by pay awards negotiated at a national level . |
| 23 | Media-only appointments increased at a faster rate than those involving creative and full service during the year . |
| 24 | This was the main message behind a worse than expected slump in interim pre-tax profits from £30.9m to £16.2m and the likelihood of a full year pre-tax loss , after incurring exceptional costs estimated at a cool £50m , to £55m . |
| 25 | Sam had a mental vision of a handful of ants thrown at a charging bull , but upbraided himself for cowardice . |
| 26 | Although the markets served by those businesses remained at a low level throughout 1992 , it is believed that our European aggregates businesses will become a significant contributor to the Group in the medium term . |
| 27 | Initially assumed that the level of carbon 14 in the environment that was available to be absorbed by living things remained at a constant level , subsequent research has shown that the amount of carbon 14 varies , possibly as a result of sunspot activity . |
| 28 | Survey questions pitched at a general level may elicit what respondents regard as socially approved values . |
| 29 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |
| 30 | And every now and again a Crossley tender carrying a company of Black and Tans , their guns held at a threatening angle , would butt its way through the press , its progress-retarded — sometimes even brought to a halt — by as unlikely a variety of breakdowns and traffic jams as the doggedly obstructive citizens of Cork could improvise this side of outright rebellion . |