Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than establishing at a strategic level housing requirements , so that local plans being formulated can weigh those housing requirements against environmental constraints . |
| 2 | The procedure was exactly as for Experiment 1 except condition C was to point at a target using the non-preferred hand while wearing prisms , rather than pointing at an auditory target . |
| 3 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 4 | A young motorist who crashed into another car while reversing at a fast speed escaped a driving ban at Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 5 | On Feb. 7 , 1990 , some 300,000 gallons of heavy Alaskan crude oil were spilt off the southern California coast when a tanker , American Trader , leased by the British Petroleum Oil Company , USA , was holed while mooring at an offshore pipeline terminal . |
| 6 | Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft . |
| 7 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 8 | When looking at a narrative design , the possibilities of obtaining different perspectives are especially significant : it is precisely the lack of a wide border which would have made the story of the Dido and Aeneas mosaic , from Low Ham , Som. , so hard to follow . |
| 9 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 10 | It is inevitable that tyres like that will blow out when travelling at a high speed . |
| 11 | This can be put to good use in soaring conditions as a means of getting into the lift when cruising at a high speed . |
| 12 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 13 | Either way , this section looks at some of the things you should think about when arriving at a new location . |
| 14 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |