Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 32 | The privileged sign in at a large book attached by a thin chain to a sort of lectern . |
| 33 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 34 | Also looking at walking axes have been Grivel , who 've come up with the Air Tech , which weighs in at a gobsmacking 460g . |
| 35 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 36 | OS/2 will get 8.5% of the total workstation market by 1996 , it says , with Unix coming in at a hefty 47% and Windows NT possibly capturing 30–40% of the office desktop/workstation market . |
| 37 | The coach , from London , costs under £40 but the trains , actually taking longer , weight in at a hefty £68 . |
| 38 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 39 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 40 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
| 41 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |
| 42 | In both programmes , spectators happen to be present , peering in at a comic version of the star 's life . |
| 43 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 44 | If any other readers would like to save money and the rain forests , call in at a local reclaimers the next time you need timber . |
| 45 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 46 | This can be clearly seen at St Oswald 's in Gloucester , where the many phases of development are more clear in elevation than plan , and where , ironically , the earliest masonry is up above arches put in at a later date . |
| 47 | You could always fill this in at a later date , there 's |
| 48 | Some settlement is likely to take place over a period after the trench has been filled , but this can be filled in at a later stage . |
| 49 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 50 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 51 | The road was deserted and we were throbbing along at a moderate pace when suddenly the engine sputtered and stopped . |
| 52 | For , after switching on power , it carries him along at a leisurely 10mph . |
| 53 | The story rips along at a cracking pace instead of suspensefully loitering , yet it somehow lacks the frisson of Alien in its businesslike efficiency . |
| 54 | That way , unless I 've really laid it on thick , I can get along at a cracking pace . |
| 55 | ‘ Delphis ’ floats around dreamy vocals , clever chords , is pushed along at a dignified pace and is a perfect antidote to the tense teutonic Techno and ball-breaking Gospel anthems currently dominating the scene . |
| 56 | Terry Hands 's direction whips all this along at a fast pace . |
| 57 | Mr Michael Poynor , the adjudicator , commended director Harry Foy for an energetic production which kept the action moving along at a fast pace . |
| 58 | On the main highway leading to Charleroi and Brussels the Dragoons were clattering along at a fine pace , almost as if this was an exercise in Provence instead of war . |
| 59 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 60 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |