Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 2 | About one in five of all trips are made for business purposes and the business travel industry is growing at twice the speed of tourism . |
| 3 | Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region . |
| 4 | Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income . |
| 5 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
| 6 | There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms . |
| 7 | A $150m venture with Kokusai Denshin Denwa , Japan 's biggest international telecoms carrier , Singapore Telecom and others , WorldSource is aiming at precisely the market coveted by BT . |
| 8 | It was reported on March 1 that , although the construction of the tunnel was behind schedule , geological problems relating to the chalk seabed had now been overcome , and digging was now advancing at twice the speed of a year earlier . |
| 9 | They envisaged the aircraft as having at least the capacity of the Dakota , but the robustness and short take-off and landing ( STOL ) capabilities of their DHC-2 Beaver and DHC-3 Otter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 12 | He drew back , looking at her again , seeing at once the reflection of his love , there in her eyes . |
| 13 | By the end of the 1960s , most comprehensive schools were offering at least the core of a common curriculum to most of the pupils in Year One . |
| 14 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 15 | In that case , the dispute arose out of a DTI investigation into a suspected ‘ mole ’ , working at either the Office of Fair Trading or the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , who passed on price sensitive information to others who then dealt on the basis of it on the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | Then with great clarity and anguish he remembered the moment when Westerman had put his question about a moral lead from the press , and instead of answering at once the idea had come to him of leaning forward and judiciously stubbing out his cigarette . |