Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The action goes along at break-neck velocity to reach its conclusion and so there is no problem with the audience fidgeting . ’ |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | The va n't Hoff equation is only approximate and holds only at low concentrations . |
| 4 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 5 | Section 6.2 looks again at conventional applications development , but in the overall context of a database approach , and then we look at alternative ways of developing applications , again in a database environment . |
| 6 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 7 | The first comprehensive study in Britain that looks specifically at Black women 's experience of domestic violence is currently nearing completion . |
| 8 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 9 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 10 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 11 | The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles . |
| 12 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 13 | Another road leads away at right angles to it , in front of the temple gate , and ascends the hillside . |
| 14 | On our sail he pressure difference causes a driving force which acts roughly at right angles to the sail at its centre of effort . |
| 15 | This means that day length increases faster at high latitudes , and that primary production is enhanced compared to areas further south . |
| 16 | Leonard Forde , who has n't played since the quarter-final win over Down , returns to the left corner of the defence , and Paul O'Callaghan takes over at left half forward . |
| 17 | Its casual pose is inevitably challenged for the amateur camera appears only at special occasions , those considered essential milestones in domestic history — special events and activities , holidays , outings , christmas and birthdays . |
| 18 | ‘ A Story in an Almost Classic Mode ’ aims both at analytical biography and , as its title implies , at something grander and more generalised . |
| 19 | My 1982 Land Rover Stage I V8 station wagon performs well at low speeds , but when pulling in the gears or at higher speeds , lacks the power I would have thought the V8 should deliver . |
| 20 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 21 | Grant sweeps around at full speed and heads for land . |
| 22 | It is believed to form in the central Labrador Sea by deep convection and spreads out at intermediate depths throughout most of the area north of 40°N . |
| 23 | She had been watching television , another of those comedies where the audience laughs immoderately at thin jokes . |
| 24 | Work continues apace at Southern Air on the restoration of the first aircraft , for which the civil registration G-OMIG has been reserved . |
| 25 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 26 | The identity , however , is converted into a theory of the determination of the price level by assuming : ( a ) that the money supply is determined by the monetary authorities ; ( b ) that the number of transactions is fixed in the short-run because of the classical presumption that the economy operates automatically at full employment ; and ( c ) that the velocity of circulation is also fixed in the short-run because it depends largely on institutional factors ( such as whether workers are paid weekly or monthly ) which themselves tend to remain constant for long periods of time . |
| 27 | As Pottz said , ‘ Anyone who paddles out at big Pipe and says he 's not scared is either lying or crazy . ’ |
| 28 | The whole weary process started again in Auckland in July and continues today at Central Park where Great Britain meet New Zealand in the third British Coal Test . |
| 29 | A similar certification system operates currently at advanced level for HNC and HND courses . |
| 30 | He argues that this service is much more appropriately organized at local level , where demand for the theatre of books can be stimulated , whilst the information function operates essentially at national level , in response to demand . |