Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 2 | Naturally deposits would be attracted at higher rates than the equivalent domestic deposit rates and demand for lending would increase at lower rates . |
| 3 | We found , however , that these patterns are modified at later stages when a new domain of Krox-20 emerges in r3 ( Fig. 3i , j , i' , j' ) . |
| 4 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 5 | These Viking activities and Frankish responses to them will be looked at later in this book . |
| 6 | and even if they did buy without a solicitors assistance , what was the system about sending them the letter which we 've looked at earlier which is at erm D one , five , two , remember this is the letter that goes to Mr solicitors assuming you get a very rare person who does his or her own conveyance |
| 7 | The unions were not Prepared to Support any form of " direct action " , despite the resolutions carried at earlier Congresses in favour of the use of strikes for Political ends . |
| 8 | However , H 2 was metabolized at lower concentrations with Fe(III) than with sulphate ( b ) . |
| 9 | The general rule is that problems which can not be solved at lower levels are referred upward through the organisation structure until the problem reaches an official with enough authority and power to solve the problem . |
| 10 | If , having read this , you pick up a magazine targeted at younger teenagers — for example , one of the pop music or video games magazines — the layout is so ‘ reader-unfriendly ’ that it seems clear that the criteria for ‘ correctness ’ in a layout need , at least , some re-evaluation for this target audience . |
| 11 | Health education programmes had to be targeted at poorer women and the wider issue of social deprivation tackled . |
| 12 | Choice of topic to be studied Some of the reasons why researchers choose their topics have been discussed on p. 11 , and this issue is considered at greater length in chapter 6 . |
| 13 | The feudal relationship between the Plantagenets and Capetians will be considered at greater length at a later stage , but some discussion of its implications before 1290 is appropriate at this point . |
| 14 | Notation for classification schemes will be considered at greater length in section 13.3 . |
| 15 | Pupils should be able to take Standard Grade in S4 , with the more able pupils presented at Higher Grade in S5 or S6 . |
| 16 | Short-field landings can be done at slower speeds , and the roll-out is all of 200 yds . |
| 17 | If a candidate is elected with a surplus at a later count the probability is that both the votes previously given to him and the votes immediately responsible for his surplus will include votes already transferred at earlier stages . |
| 18 | Specialist local authority homes for dementia , to which new residents could be admitted , or to which residents of " ordinary " homes could be transferred at later stages , are a possibility , but are against strongly held principles of integration and continuity of care . |
| 19 | From the shareholder 's point of view , dividends are taxed at higher rate than capital gains ( even though the marginal rates are identical ) . |
| 20 | BLENHEIM Group , the leading exhibitions organiser with a strong City following , yesterday revealed better-than-expected annual results and hinted at better to come . |
| 21 | Two lower jaws , one from Lothagam in northern Kenya is now dated at older than 5.6Myr , and a slightly younger lower jaw from Tabarin from deposits just over 5Myr share very similar morphology with each other and with Australopithecus afarensis . |
| 22 | Continued interest will reassure the surveyors involved that responsibility is still felt at higher level and this will inevitably produce better quality work . |
| 23 | The gas works operated at lower temperatures ( about 800°C ) , so coal gas was slightly richer in hydrocarbons and had a better calorific value than coke oven gas ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 24 | Invariably , the own-brand range is offered at lower prices than the competing brands . |
| 25 | Milk can be produced at lower cost from cows with the highest genetic potential in either low or high feed input systems . |
| 26 | Gluons are in fact radiated by quarks produced at lower energies . |
| 27 | For example , early indicators of investment success under a cost-leadership strategy might be the proof , at an embryonic stage of the life-cycle , that the product matches its rivals in quality but is being produced at lower cost . |
| 28 | If agreed at lower levels , it tends to increase the peaks and troughs and certainly does not permit the preceding considerations . |
| 29 | Since there are only a small number , it is economic to make the accumulators faster than the store elements , so that operations are performed at greater speed while all operands are held in accumulators . |
| 30 | If a nucleating agent is added to the system , crystallization can be induced at higher temperatures . |