Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Cairngorm 's traditional high quality climbing ropes usually come in bagged lengths of 50 metres for the UK market , although in France ropes are usually sold at 60 metres and for indoor climbing the length drops to 30 metres .
2 ( AAT ) n are hardly cut at all .
3 If you walk up and down a pebbly beach , you will notice that the pebbles are not arranged at random .
4 Give Way signs are not placed at all roundabouts , but the point of entry is marked by a single broken white line across the road to indicate the give way rule .
5 By surveying the whole subject literature at once , it ensures that the ‘ best ’ and most appropriate titles are purchased in large numbers ( and that undeserving titles are not purchased at all ) .
6 Today 's martial artists are constantly looking at other forms of combat technique in order to broaden and improve their own fighting methods .
7 Whereas PCs are often sold at 25 per cent to 30 per cent discount , the accessories are not discounted at such high levels .
8 In the meantime it is sufficient to note that the position where the rules are barely enforced at all is far from satisfactory .
9 Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) .
10 Basically there is everything to say , for most roads are not understood at all , at least in their wider context .
11 The tropical and sub-tropical ice caps are now melting at such a rate that they will soon be gone , says Thompson : " Consequently , the climatic and environmental records from these regions , which may contain key information for understanding our climate systems , will be lost permanently . "
12 Multi-stage sampling surveys of this kind are most effective when the sampling units are carefully stratified at each stage .
13 Units are currently stocked at 356 Oxford Street , W1 , Whiteleys of Bayswater W2 and The Ashley Centre , Epsom .
14 Subsequent deceleration can be faster than acceleration , because friction torques assist retardation , and remaining clock pulses are therefore issued at half the clock frequency .
15 They have strong fore-legs , though their back legs are hardly developed at all and are little more than buds .
16 Equally serious for the historian is the knowledge that the decision takers are continually looking at virtual documents which are only infrequently captured for hard or electronic copy .
17 When Janice and Ken are n't snapping at each other ( a level of conflict they seem to have got used to ) , they are snappy at the three children .
18 The teams are shown as though turning into three-quarter view , the charioteer appearing behind them , and the chariots are not carved at all but finished in paint on the background in bold foreshortening .
19 The modern ‘ Mansion House to Broad Street ’ trains of the L & NW are not painted at all .
20 The chunks of marc are often transferred at this stage to a séchoir- a smaller , deeper , vertical press — or to a horizontal press to be squeezed out .
21 Often there is no stalking on Sunday ; vast sheep areas are not stalked at all , and there are huge areas of lower hills where stalking does not occur .
22 Identical style two-day courses for middle management are also held at various venues in the South East and Yorkshire .
23 Scenes containing dialogue are frequently shot at this camera range and where two characters are seen together the shot is described as a two-shot .
24 Refuse tips are frequented by large numbers of gulls and the few wintering Lesser Black-backed Gulls are usually found at these sites , often inland .
25 ( 6 ) have demonstrated that interstrand crosslinks are preferentially formed at 5'-GC sites — these sites were mapped from the ability of cisplatin adducts with DNA to terminate transcription of the T7 and SP6 RNA polymerases on double-stranded DNA .
26 Of the correct words 20% are not hypothesized at all . ’
27 In fact , there is little doubt that a great many of the books and journals purchased by universities are not used at all .
28 Regions corresponding to radioactive bands are then excised at minimal sizes using disposable razor blades and polyacrylamide slices are crashed by microcentrifugation through a small hole in the bottom of 0.5-ml tubes into silanized 1.5-ml Eppendorf tubes .
29 Whereas PCs are often sold at 25 per cent to 30 per cent discount , the accessories are not discounted at such high levels .
30 Comparisons are best made at this early stage between things which the children can see .
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