Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide .
2 It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers .
3 It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace .
4 This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems .
5 In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England …
6 To find it , simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon ; Omega lies at an equal distance on the far side of Epsilon .
7 This chapter looks at a different kind of self-access access by teachers to a camera .
8 Planning officers had recommended refusal although chief officer Tony Noble warned that they may have to pay costs if the applicant succeeded at a subsequent appeal .
9 The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways .
10 The nine-foot figure stands at a new development in Dockwray Square , North Shields , Stan Laurel 's home for 10 years .
11 In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) .
12 By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed .
13 If we now add a breeze to this situation , the bubble of air tends to be blown away from under the model and the effect occurs at a lower altitude ( Fig. 5.8 ) .
14 I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most .
15 Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 .
16 The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature .
17 At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect .
18 The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism .
19 There 's a proposal for the Bounty to land at a vast shopping centre planned at Thurrock .
20 It is interesting to note that a quiet bedroom is about 35 on the scale , at 55 communication starts to become difficult , a car travelling at a steady 60 k.p.h. at seven metres distance is just over 70 , a heavy diesel lorry at 40 k.p.h. at seven metres is 85 , a pneumatic drill at seven metres is 95 and 120 is the threshold of pain .
21 ‘ The Diana tape hints at a lighthearted , flirtatious relationship .
22 And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought .
23 Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize .
24 In summary , the research aims at a detailed examination of the policy-making process .
25 It 's been dealt with in a different way and not erm with an attempt to arrive at a common policy about it .
26 As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . "
27 what weight of importance to attach to each criterion to arrive at an overall assessment for each axis .
28 Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it .
29 Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey .
30 Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism ?
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