Example sentences of "[is] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 2 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think it 's taught at medical school . |
| 4 | Taking further tentative steps into the Unix arena , Software AG GmbH , Darmstadt , Germany , last week announced it will support IBM 's RS/6000 with its fourth generation development language Natural , and Adabas , its relational database management system , which it is targeting at on-line transaction processing solutions . |
| 5 | The mouth of the Loire has a submerged delta of this type , the two distributary channels being near the land on either side and separated by a mass of sediment some of which is exposed at low tide as banks in mid-estuary . |
| 6 | The two types of mirror look much the same after being buried for centuries , but when the microstructure is examined at high magnification , as in Figures 5.15e and f , it is possible to distinguish between tinned bronze and the high-tin alloy . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc worshipper Integrix Inc , based somewhere in darkest California , has come up with a new keyboard called the S5+ that incorporates the functionality of Sun 's new Type 5 but can also be used with all Suns , Sun-compatibles and personal computers : it is targeted at mixed computer environments and X terminals and it requires no special device drivers . |
| 8 | It is targeted at mixed computer environments and X terminals and requires no special device drivers . |
| 9 | Protocol I is targeted at Distant Water Fishing Nations , Protocol II to Pacific Rim States . |
| 10 | As such , it is targeted at private use within organisations . |
| 11 | It is occurring at especial speed in those countries in which development has been recent and fast . |
| 12 | VHS hi-fi stereo sound , unlike VHS mono , is encoded at high speed along with the picture signals in the same way as Video 8 hi-fi , and hence has the same high standard of audio quality . |
| 13 | When a march is organised at short notice , as much notice as practicable must be given . |
| 14 | The role of the National LX Network is to provide at local level those services required throughout the country to enhance the nation 's export profile by supporting British commerce , business and industry in sustaining international pressures and in penetrating foreign markets . |
| 15 | The only fault which can be levelled at this production is its brevity in comparison with its cinema counterpart Shirley 's Greek idyll is compressed at break-neck speed into a second half which lasts less than 45 minutes . |
| 16 | The company is banking on communications technology arriving in time so that the dispersed machines can be linked together at a speed of at least 100 Mbytes per second — FDDI runs at 100 M-bits per second , and the company is looking at Asynchronous Transfer Mode , the emerging broadband fixed-cell packet system for the links . |
| 17 | So for future growth the company is looking at related service businesses and expansion overseas . |
| 18 | In tabular form we have Therefore if a small change in t is made at constant radius inside the horizon , This is opposite in sign to the effect of a similar small change in t outside the horizon , namely |
| 19 | So it is possible that the β -sheet that is present near physiological pH is disrupted at low pH . |
| 20 | Nippon Electric of Japan has recently opened a £50 million semiconductor factory in Livingston that will , by 1985 , when the plant is operating at full stretch , employ only 800 people . |
| 21 | The damper torque acts as a drag torque on the motor shaft and also accelerates the damper rotor : If tile motor is operating at constant speed the damper rotor must also be running at a constant speed , so from Eqn . |
| 22 | Because it is written at first-year undergraduate level , many students could profit from this volume . |
| 23 | Kohl is pelted at anti-Nazi demo |
| 24 | Sarajevo Airport ; and the Hercules is unloaded at top speed . |
| 25 | Finally , subscribers will be relieved to know that this work is done at minimal cost to the Bar — all the work is done pro bono by individual members of the Bar in their own time . |
| 26 | This is done at little cost as representatives are paid on a commission basis . |
| 27 | There will be a more intensive look at this problem later , but for now all that concerns us is that the job security component of the company loyalty is reflected at national level in official unemployment rates . |
| 28 | The object of the research is to look at corporate strategy and structure in the aerospace and airline sectors using a recently developed analytical technique , synergy mapping . |
| 29 | What we are actually going to do today is to look using this data , is to look at structural stability , right , we 're going to ask ourselves are the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample , are they constant over time . |
| 30 | Action is needed at international level and we will play our full part . |