Example sentences of "[to-vb] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 2 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 3 | To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck . |
| 4 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 5 | The select committees , in contrast , were to be investigating bodies where policy issues were not of first importance , the principal task being to find out what was happening inside the various government departments , to inform the House and the public , thus bringing public opinion to bear at an earlier stage while policy was still relatively fluid . |
| 6 | It is essential to establish at an early stage the significance of the properties to the operations and overall value of the target business . |
| 7 | Some of our SPECIALIST WEEKENDS allow you to work at an ADVANCED LEVEL . |
| 8 | Another doctor , Edward Spitzka , believed that an unwillingness to work at an appointed task was itself a symptom of masturbatory insanity . |
| 9 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 10 | Executives from Ford , which has acknowledged subscribing to the league , have been called to appear at an industrial tribunal next month . |
| 11 | Using a proper name for a subject search may be easier for the user than attempting to guess at an appropriate subject heading , particularly if the object is to extract a class number to pursue subject searching at the shelves . |
| 12 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 13 | The applications of physics have widened and continue to widen at an incredible rate . |
| 14 | Guy could only hope that Isabel was quick and that the sentry was n't inclined to shoot at an unseen target . |
| 15 | Surely the fact that teachers are at the ‘ formal operational ’ stage does not mean that they prefer to discuss at an abstract level ! |
| 16 | The challenge is to identify at an early stage those who are most at risk of developing serious complications so that appropriate treatment may be given . |
| 17 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 18 | We also going to identify at an early stage the financial resources that will be in next year in order to meet our obligation with identifying worthwhile all the time and then by a course of are reserved er to , to support |
| 19 | It will also receive a four-year option to buy at an undisclosed price 65% of GPA 's equity , with the possibility of extending that to 80% . |
| 20 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 21 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 22 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 23 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 24 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 25 | I have to look at an intelligent face . |
| 26 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 27 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 28 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 29 | If the results of assessment are used in the ways intended and if the evidence of research and HMI findings of good practice are heeded , these children should in fact benefit , because their problems with the English language will have been identified and appropriate action can be taken to help at an early stage . |
| 30 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |