Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the bass knob , when pulled , provides an extra dollop of low EQ so that playing at lesser volumes will sound more natural ( having the same effect as the loudness control on a domestic hi-fi amp ) . |
| 2 | This crystal lets polarised light through only when held at certain angles . |
| 3 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 4 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 5 | He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions . |
| 6 | Made up of three National Certificate Modules , each cluster is designed to encourage students , especially those in schools , to take coherent groups of modules rather than choosing at random . |
| 7 | Rather than grasping at current structural prescriptions as a solution to all organizational ills , careful thought needs to be given to the full range of their implications , in the particular context to which they are to be applied . |
| 8 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales went to lunch together yesterday , but arrived separately and sat at different tables . |
| 9 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 10 | Profits more than doubled at pre-tax level , but were complicated by the application of the new accounting rules . |
| 11 | Adults travel further and feed at random much more freely , and the damage they do is not so noticeable since it is more widespread . |
| 12 | This involves discussing how the client could respond differently and looking at specific verbal and non-verbal characteristics of an assertive response . |
| 13 | These are uni-directional microphones mounted on booms which can be swung overhead and aimed at individual speakers ; they are mainly used for recording drama , and require skilled operation by an assistant . |
| 14 | Pre-ignition as a result of carbon formation in the combustion chamber together with local overheating which , particularly if encountered at high engine speeds , will result in the collapse of the piston crown . |
| 15 | The conference will be following up the training programmes discussed at the Brough 90 meeting as well as looking at new proposals for courses and other aspects of woodturning training . |
| 16 | It will also examine the structure and economics of the conversion business and the nature of the conversion process itself as well as looking at local authority planning policy on conversions and the problems conversion may generate . |
| 17 | Earlier types have run at high power , even when manoeuvring at slow speed , to keep the skirt inflated . |
| 18 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 19 | And Stuart Leary believed in following the ball from the bowler 's hand even when fielding at short leg . |
| 20 | By clicking its tongue , a Rousettus bat can locate objects only 0.5 millimetres across while flying at high speed . |