Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] at a " in BNC.

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1 The cost of his travels and his books ( many of which were distributed free or sold at a subsidized price ) was heavy .
2 The input to a program should be clear and kept to a minimum ; the output on the screen should be clear and presented at a sensible speed ; and any ‘ special ’ or complex computer procedures should appear to the user as ordinary and easy to use .
3 Mauléon also has a rather wonderful Renaissance chateau in the centre of the town , with a roof to remember , a good thirty feet high and pitched at an angle of 75 degrees .
4 These teeth are also shorter and set at a different angle from the other teeth .
5 Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level .
6 Different types of management experience were integrated into a set of principles which were all interrelated and presented at a level of generality which made them as widely applicable as possible .
7 The AFTA formula had been proposed by Thailand in 1991 and approved at a meeting of Asean Economics Ministers in Malaysia in October [ see p. 38535 ] .
8 Anyone who so much as hints at a ‘ third way ’ between communism and capitalism is considered naive ; there is simply no time to try more experiments .
9 As I panted into Stranraer Gardens , following the no-hopers rule for cross-country — never run in a straight line — I was flailing my arms left and right and zigzagging at an angle of about ten degrees to the horizontal .
10 Expanded and renovated at a cost of C$58 million , but over 50% of staff laid off
11 He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am .
12 However , atherosclerosis appears to be more extensive and to develop at an earlier age in diabetic patients ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) .
13 The most significant development during this period was the formation of the Central Gneiss Zone , some 10–20km broad and dipping at an angle of 30–40° to the north and bounded to the south by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22 ) .
14 If the package is to contain modules which already exist , then each one must be referenced as LATEST , PREFERRED or SELECTED at a specified issue , resulting in ‘ MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ’ references of the form :
15 But all that changed at a phenomenal pace .
16 The proportion of severe episodes from all pancreatitis discharges in men increased from 8.1% in 1977 to 13–4% in 1981 and remained at an average of 14.0% during the 1980s ( Fig 4 ) .
17 If it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and it is entitled in respect of its individual accounts to the exceptions conferred on a small company by section 246 ( or would be so entitled but for being a member of an ineligible group ) and it is not required to prepare group accounts for that year , the resolution is effective if passed at a general meeting at which the accounts for that year are to be laid .
18 The couple — who now run a pet shop in Hull — married while held at a nuclear plant in Basra , Iraq .
19 For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion .
20 Similarly , the declining firm has a share price of only 4.75 and sells at a multiple to earnings of only 2.50 , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a share price of 47.07 and sells at a multiple to earnings of nearly 19 .
21 THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night .
22 We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price .
23 They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty .
24 On that basis Mr took the cost of one professional carer as twenty three thousand eight hundred and six pounds a year , he multiplied by three point five and arrived at a figure of eighty three thousand three hundred and twenty one pounds .
25 The demand for electric light bulbs quickly became phenomenal and continued at a very high rate for many years .
26 The packet-switch bus uses slight changes in Voltage to determine binary 0 and 1 and operates at a sustained rate of 200Mbps on the Sparcserver 1000 .
27 The packet-switch bus uses slight changes in voltage to determine binary 0 and 1 and operates at a sustained rate of 200Mbps on the Sparcserver 1000 .
28 Following the path , continue down to the charming sunken alpinum of 1800 and arrive at a further part of the Hunger Wall .
29 Instruction in methods for finding information is most likely to be successful if provided at a point when students are working on a non-library project or course which requires a literature search .
30 Turn Pale or tremble at a losing Game .
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