Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 2 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 3 | In the past eighteen months he has felt at an appallingly low ebb . |
| 4 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 5 | In the US , insider trading law has evolved at a much faster pace than any other country . |
| 6 | A horse that has been continually galloped by one owner , is not going to change its expectations of being ridden just because it has been bought by someone who wants to travel at a more sedate speed ! |
| 7 | Atherosclerosis appears to proceed at a more rapid rate and is more extensive in the diabetic ( Crall & Roberts , 1978 ) , but the process does not differ in its morphological appearance nor in its anatomical distribution compared to the non-diabetic ( Strandness et al , 1964 ; Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 8 | In contrast the world appears to move at an incredibly fast pace to a snail . |
| 9 | erm Helium does liquify at a much lower temperature than any other element and in fact it was not until erm this century that erm helium was finally liquified . |