Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story rips along at a cracking pace instead of suspensefully loitering , yet it somehow lacks the frisson of Alien in its businesslike efficiency . |
| 2 | I feel the Pope should draw his clergy 's attention instead to these new things called Buzzboards — motorised two-wheel scooters on which the driver travels upright at a dignified speed of 20 mph . |
| 3 | Also , you can leave multi-line messages on the screen or hit the ‘ instant-on ‘ key if the boss walks by at an inconvenient time ! |
| 4 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
| 5 | The stream bed below is normally dry as the water percolates through at a lower level . |
| 6 | The scale length of the Tribute checks out at a Fender-like 25½ inches . |
| 7 | The skunk has a pair of these glands and not only can it vary the strength of each jet according to the side from which you approach but it is even able to twist the nozzle of the gland so that the spray shoots out at an angle . |
| 8 | And when you consider that those prices include a £5 donation to The Spastics Society , the music works out at a fiver per CD or cassette ! |
| 9 | The Office hints defensively at a period of nomadic existence which was censured by critics as unstable . |
| 10 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 11 | But the lizard escapes only at a price . |