Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NI contributions are normally paid at an initial percentage rate on all earnings up to and including the lower earnings limit , and at a main percentage rate on earnings between the lower and employee 's upper earnings limit . |
| 2 | 1.4 Plans and photographs are indispensable in many personal injury cases and are best prepared at an early stage . |
| 3 | When I write again in twelve months ’ time I shall be extremely disappointed if , world events permitting , we have not met our targets and are not looking at an improved set of results . |
| 4 | The poverty figures are still growing at an alarming rate . ’ |
| 5 | Jobs are now disappearing at an alarming rate . |
| 6 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 7 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 8 | He knew that he was oversensitive to the timbre of the human voice and hers , although not jarring or unpleasant , sounded a little forced as if she were deliberately speaking at an unnatural pitch . |
| 9 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |
| 10 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 11 | If agreement for mutual exchange is not reached at an early stage , the defendant will have the advantage of first sight of at least one of the plaintiff 's medical reports . |
| 12 | If the economy is not growing at an annual rate of 3 per cent by the middle of 1994 as the Chancellor 's Budget arithmetic assumes , revenues will be less buoyant and the spending on welfare will be greater than forecast . |
| 13 | The stock of bills is shown by and this stock is willingly held at an average rate of discount of . |
| 14 | It 's become unfashionable because the media is now looking at an alternative scapegoat for the problems the Conservative Party , that 's why it 's a reason and what is arising from the Labour leadership at the moment is purely an attempt to placate the media . |
| 15 | While bird-watching is often used at an early stage in research to try to develop hypotheses and to make sure one does have some idea of how people behave before going any further , there is no reason why one should not develop more systematic recording schedules to standardize the observations and to develop more of a survey approach . |
| 16 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
| 17 | The split was formally approved at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Feb. 23 . |
| 18 | A survey by Hay Management Consultants estimates that boardroom pay in Britain was still rising at an annual rate of 10–14% in the last six months of 1990 , although profits had long been tumbling . |