Example sentences of "it [vb -s] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been discovered in the eighteenth century that light does not travel instantaneously from source to observer ; rather , it goes at a certain speed , about 186,000 miles ( 300,000 kilometers ) a second . |
| 2 | She characterizes it as a ‘ micropolitical structure ’ in itself , which ‘ underlies and supports the macropolitical structure ’ ; and she alleges that it lies at a ‘ crucial point ’ ( 1977 : 179 , 191 ) between open , and concealed , political control and resistance . |
| 3 | Unfortunately it must be said that in binoculars ( or , for that matter , in most telescopes ) it is disappointing , because it lies at a narrow angle to us and the full beauty of the spiral is lost . |
| 4 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 5 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 6 | It looks at a lesson as a sequence of natural units of teaching and learning . |
| 7 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 8 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 9 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 10 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 11 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 12 | The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection . |
| 13 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 14 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 15 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 16 | Obtaining office copy entries ( as opposed to furnishing merely a copy of the registered title ) is advisable as it reveals at an early stage whether or not there is a second charge which may not have been disclosed to the husband 's solicitors . |
| 17 | There is an alternative route which is longer and involves slightly more climbing , but it stays at a lower level , never rising higher than 1,600ft . |
| 18 | The difficulty with this anemone is that once established it reproduces at a tremendous rate and literally swamps the aquarium with large numbers of offspring . |
| 19 | That year the Museum began founding bronzes from the unpublished casts , which it keeps at a secret location somewhere in France . |
| 20 | Listen to a car passing on the road : as the car is approaching , its engine sounds at a higher pitch ( corresponding to a higher frequency of sound waves ) , and when it passes and goes away , it sounds at a lower pitch . |
| 21 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 22 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |
| 23 | It performs at a maximum 1.2GFlops and is powerful enough to handle target recognition and other image analysis in real time . |
| 24 | The Hyperion recording is much more recent ( 1986 ) and fully digital , though it aims at a softer more recessed sound picture than the Chandos . |
| 25 | It will charge interest on the cash amounts it advances at a rate similar to that for an overdraft . |
| 26 | There is of course the whole domain of theories of knowledge which was explored briefly in the last chapter , but there is typically little concrete reference to curricula or courses in such writing ; it moves at a much more abstract level . |
| 27 | It moves at a waddle from chance to chance , |
| 28 | It operates at a rate of 0.45-litre ( 0.8pt ) per stroke , and will fit in to the standard 2in ( 50mm ) BSP neck of 205-litre ( 45gal ) barrels . |
| 29 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 30 | It operates at a level of myth . |