Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that the money stock expands at a rate determined , ceteris paribus , by the flow of net new bank lending and assume that the demand for bank lending is inversely related to the rate of interest charged on that lending . |
| 2 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
| 3 | While the clock is chiming , there is also a 50% chance per character per round of being attacked by another object in the room : the rocking-horse bites , a chair leg strikes at a shin , a table drawer flies out and strikes a vicious blow in the stomach , a toy soldier stabs at an ankle , and so on . |
| 4 | Instead of beginning a search at the start of the structure ( i.e. first element of the array ) , the binary search technique begins at a mid point . |
| 5 | A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17 , severely injuring one person . |
| 6 | On our last night we dined on fresh local fish in the Club taverna sitting at a table close to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta . |
| 8 | A methane/air explosion occurred at a water pumping station . |
| 9 | With the coarse fishing season opening at a minute past midnight tonight June 16 anglers all over the region will be itching to get to their favourite waters . |
| 10 | The college brochure hints at a style far removed from that of Summerhill under the heading ‘ Requirements of a Lady ’ . |
| 11 | When we are sitting or resting our blood pressure remains at a steady resting level . |
| 12 | In a deprived area of Slough there is a school where we have explained to children the importance of blood pressure monitoring at an early age . |
| 13 | Flashman is now the subject of a police enquiry as a result of a complaint by Sun photographer Paul Welford after a scuffle following the Football League hearing at a West End hotel on Monday . |
| 14 | On top might be a porcelain book open at a bit of holy text , plus a photograph , or a porcelain cluster of pink and red roses with sharp frilled edges . |
| 15 | For an artisan elite it was skilled labour power sold at a premium , but for most men and almost all working women it was unskilled labour . |
| 16 | The number of false positives ( FP ) generated by grid referencing and requiring subsequent PCR is a function of the number of true positives ( P ) , and of the distribution of those positives , but will maximally increase according to the equation FP=PP , meaning that the overall screening load increases at a rate 2n+3+ ( PP ) , and the screening multiple by n/2n+3+ ( PP ) . |
| 17 | Pitcher pooh-poohs the notion of a stock market listing at a time when so many entrepreneurs are taking their companies private once more . |
| 18 | Muawad was elected during a Parliament session held at an air base in northern Lebanon . |
| 19 | A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed . |
| 20 | This sensor consists of an ordinary mercury tilt switch mounted at an angle so that the small mercury bead encapsulated in the switch easily rolls on and off the contacts as the switch encounters movement . |
| 21 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |
| 22 | Einstein interpreted this result as follows : the motion of a neutral test body released at a given point in space–time is independent of its composition . |
| 23 | The second is ‘ Le chien Barbet ’ by Chardin , sold by Tajan in 1988 and depicting a hunting dog sniffing at a hare and duck hanging from an urn . |
| 24 | The production of the CH 3 · radical by flash photolysis of CH 3 I , for instance , has been monitored using a tunable IR laser set at a fixed frequency of 608.301 cm -1 , coinciding with the strong Q-branch of the ν 2 band . |
| 25 | You can continue your sport the decent side of the sport without the need for the kill and and we will encourage , my motion actually encourages that , encourages the fox hunting fraternity to look at a way forward , come forward , talk to us . |
| 26 | During those infant years school and home life progressed at an unremarkable pace . |
| 27 | Her butterfly cap sat at a saucy angle on her black hair . |
| 28 | Many students find it very helpful to sit in the phonetics laboratory looking at a computer display showing a picture of their pitch movements . |
| 29 | Perhaps the Private Eye story hinting at a takeover of Barts by a private concern is not as farfetched as Tony Delamothe suggests . |
| 30 | By the time it had been carefully re-written , my feature described in glowing terms the ‘ Hollywood film-set scenery ’ ( but no mention of The Good , The Bad and The Ugly and ‘ exotic cuisine ’ ( on the strength of a passable chicken tikka masala eaten at a restaurant some distance from the hotel ) . |