Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn .
2 When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date .
3 Every actual utterance is spatiotemporally unique , being spoken or written at a particular place and at a particular time ; and provided that there is some standard system for identifying points in space and time , we can , in principle , specify the actual spatiotemporal situation of any utterance act .
4 Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear .
5 If the package is to contain modules which already exist , then each one must be referenced as LATEST , PREFERRED or SELECTED at a specified issue , resulting in ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ references of the form :
6 All the nuclei in the body process at a , or rotate at a particular speed , according to whatever size magnetic field you put them in , and then you apply a radio frequency field to the body at the , at just that frequency , and if you tune things correctly , there is absorption of energy , and you can detect that .
7 This information can then be used to test experimental reconstructions of furnaces found in excavations in order to establish whether or not the metal could have been smelted in a particular type of furnace , or forged at a particular type of hearth .
8 He suggested that the Government were engineering or conniving at a high level of unemployment .
9 The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy .
10 Illegal uses often include shopping trips , collecting spare parts for the garage or calling at a public house along a journey .
11 Turn Pale or tremble at a losing Game .
12 Rights to either buy or sell at a specified price within a specified period ( 3 months ) .
13 ( This may be done on the spot or brought at a second visit . )
14 In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years .
15 If one has poor eyesight or hearing at a younger age , then an appeal against jury service is likely to be upheld .
16 A few years ago , the paedophile , strolling through the shopping mall , or sitting at a quiet table in Salad Binge or Just Desserts , might have coordinated his assignations — his intergenerational trysts — by mobile telephone .
17 The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land .
18 Four groups of five nude mice were grafted with MKN45G xenograft tissue and treated with either PBS or histamine at a single concentration of 1 mgkg - 1 day - 1 , locally at the tumour site .
19 Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold .
20 The associated additional cost arises from either people and equipment standing idle while instructions are awaited , or working at a reduced rate on other activities , therefore increasing durations of these activities .
21 The Tornado would launch a Harm or Alarm at a safe distance .
22 I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard .
23 The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne .
24 It should be based on or at least draw from coherent bodies of knowledge which go beyond mere skill and are capable of being explicated and taught at a high level .
25 Duties are changing and accumulating at a faster rate than they can be successfully discharged .
26 We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … .
27 But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) .
28 Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north .
29 The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) .
30 Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues .
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