Example sentences of "[vb base] at a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , children may be born with , or acquire at a relatively early stage , processing biases which will constrain the forms of adult input to which they will be most sensitive . |
| 2 | You can extend this time if necessary to have it happen at a suitably dramatic moment ; the staging of the event is more important than the exact time . |
| 3 | The informal petty bourgeoisie is a term that is rarely found in attempts to outline class structure in Latin America , but Portes ' usage refers to small-scale entrepreneurs , who have similar characteristics in the class analysis to the dominant class , but who operate at a very different level and have a somewhat precarious existence . |
| 4 | It is this kind of objective correspondence which makes it possible for the experience of racism to become connected to paranoid structures of feeling and phantasy which originate at a quite different and more unconscious level of representation . |
| 5 | By encompassing the user 's requirements , expectations and compromises at the different stages of the search process , it may be possible to analyse the interrelationship between user documents and system and arrive at a more realistic performance evaluation . |
| 6 | In reciprocal discourse , then , interlocutors can always establish , by the turn-taking of talk , the necessary grounds of shared knowledge , and so arrive at a mutually satisfactory schematic convergence . |
| 7 | Club cruises start at a remarkably low price from Corfu or Rhodes with itineraries that take you to some of the most idyllic of the Greek islands . |
| 8 | Tennis players start at a more tender age these days . |
| 9 | Folk dancing is not just a tourist attraction : it is popular amongst all Madeirans , whatever their social background and they start at a very early age to learn the dance steps . |
| 10 | But what you 're then saying is that the taxes start at a very low threshold I E you , you , you start to pay tax at a hundred and fifty Cantonese per person . |
| 11 | Runtime prices are £200 per seat for Unix and VMS , £100 for Macintosh and personal computer versions , but development licences start at a very hefty £12,000 for Unix — £9,000 for the Intel-based SCO and Interactive variants — and £7,000 for Mac and PCs . |
| 12 | However , unless they move at a very early age , such people rarely sound " totally " American . |
| 13 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 14 | Glottochronology is a technique developed for spoken languages which has a basic assumption that languages change at a relatively steady rate . |
| 15 | Expansion costs pegged the profits increase at a more modest 8.8% to £110.6m . |
| 16 | Patients with the 3849+10 kb mutation were older , had been diagnosed as having CF at a more advanced age , and were in a better nutritional state . |
| 17 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 18 | When birds are released from cages , they flap and stretch at a very high rate , suggesting that they are compensating for their earlier restriction . |
| 19 | Figure 8.11 shows that , apart from London , the different types of authority spend at a very similar level on books and equipment in special schools , but that in both primary and secondary schools , metropolitan districts spend on average less on books and equipment per child than the shire counties . |
| 20 | If such subliminal presentations can be shown to influence processing of subsequent information in anxious subjects , it would strongly support the suggestion that anxiety-related biases occur at a very early stage of information processing . |
| 21 | For example , it is related to parental love in that children learn at a very early stage that behaving well or being ‘ OK ’ means they get more affection ; being ‘ not OK ’ leads to a withdrawal of affection . |