Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 2 | An active member of the police Superintendents Association , Mr McLean says that at a recent meeting disgust was expressed at the Met 's failure to hit back at criticism of this kind — such as the comment by Bernie Grant , MP for Tottenham , that the divisional chief in his constituency was ‘ incompetent . ’ |
| 3 | In 1899 the Secretary could report that at a special election in the village of Barnton , near Northwich , to decide on whether the new school should be Church of England or ‘ unsectarian ’ the Council put up ‘ Progressive ’ candidates who won the election . |
| 4 | Its own research had shown that at a random check in 1940 just over a quarter of its audience had listened to ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ on the previous day . |
| 5 | He found the spot where the three reeds were growing and at a single blow cut down all three with his sword . |
| 6 | All the traffic , it was all sort of er arranged that at a certain time all the traffic stopped to the other side . |
| 7 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 8 | There is a between L 1 and L 3 units of labour total product is rising but at a decreasing rate that therefore implies that a marginal product of labour between those two imput levels is positive but but falling notice that total product curve peaks at L 3 right , so it 's maximum at L 3 units of labour of that curve at that particular point zero , therefore , the marginal product labour is zero . |
| 9 | One was soon found and at a special meeting of the Governors on 26th February Mr. C. G. Higginson , a graduate of the University of London , was appointed at a salary of £5 a week , to be paid by Hamilton . |
| 10 | The narrowness of the region , and its variable position from one eclipse to the next , means that at a given point on the Earth 's surface total solar eclipses are rare . |
| 11 | It may seem that at a superficial level these categories are the same in other European languages as they are in our own . |
| 12 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 13 | Thereafter cells continued to proliferate but at a diminished rate ( possibly because of cell to cell contact ) . |