Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] speed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore safe for a fire-engine driver to proceed at a higher speed than would be possible for other drivers . |
| 2 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 3 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 4 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 5 | Also , the film lost one Val and its pilot in a dive-bombing accident when the aircraft went into a high speed stall and crashed into a sugar cane field . |
| 6 | Police believe the two cars collided at a closing speed approaching a hundred miles an hour . |
| 7 | They 're useful in surgery to keep blood flowing at the right speed and sucking old blood from re-attached parts so new blood flows in quickly . |
| 8 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 9 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 10 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 11 | Because the gas turbine operates at a constant speed of 90,000rpm , it is very efficient so that fuel consumption and emissions are low . |
| 12 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 13 | The 435 features 5,000 gates , has eight PAL33V16 logic blocks controlled by a high speed central switch matrix , 128 synchronous or asynchronous configurable macrocells and 15ns pin to pin delays . |
| 14 | Alan beat 35 other boats to win in an average speed of 55 miles an hour … |
| 15 | The disc revolves at a constant speed , holds 54,000 frames per side , and offers about thirty minutes of straight playing time on each side . |
| 16 | He suggests that the term ‘ porpoising ’ should be used to describe any aquatic animal that leaps out of the water and uses less energy than it would if it were surface swimming at the same speed . |
| 17 | So I feel a terrific relief and release that in the latter part of my business life I 've been really able to make things happen at a considerable speed . |
| 18 | He referred particularly to the need , under judicial review procedure , to obtain leave to apply on the basis of sworn evidence , on the court 's discretionary control of both discovery of documents and cross-examination , on the capacity of the court to act with the utmost speed when necessary and on the court 's avoiding the temptation to substitute its own decision of fact for that of the housing authority . |
| 19 | The system also manages to incorporate a handrail running at the same speed as the walkway — an advance compared with most single speed systems . |
| 20 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 21 | Thus P = Q does not imply that P and q run at the same speed . |
| 22 | In principle , the generation of any supersonic disturbance of a high enough Mach number ( velocity divided by the local speed of sound ) in a molecular cloud will produce H-H-like spectra , provided that the shocked gas can radiate sufficiently well . |
| 23 | Dene Stallard from Cheltenham is another Formula one racer with scars to show for a high speed crash right here at Chalon … |
| 24 | Rheinschild finished with an average speed of 398.881 , 20mph faster the Dean Cutter Cutshall in P-51D Cutter 's Capers . |
| 25 | Therefore it is hypothesized that , rather than evolving at a constant speed in calendar time , futures prices evolve at a constant speed in event time . |
| 26 | In planning terms the scheme was understaffed and the whole operation conducted at a headlong speed rendered necessary by the short perspective and the uncertainty of UNICEF funding . |
| 27 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 28 | The plane flying at a constant speed takes five seconds to go one thousand five hundred miles what |
| 29 | Begin to add the warm distilled water , drop by drop at first , to the oil and wax , beating with a rotary whisk , balloon whisk or an electric food mixer set at the lowest speed . |
| 30 | Since the lift generated depends on the ratio of two flow patterns ( created by the cylinder 's rotation and the wind acting on the cylinder ) a sudden increase in wind speed while the rotors turn at a constant speed reduces the lift in proportion . |