Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the internal market , the price is calculated at a third to a half of the Western auction estimate price . |
| 2 | The pressure to conclude a settlement is almost always on the plaintiff who is placed at a considerable disadvantage against the skilled defendant . |
| 3 | Members fear more jobs could be lost if a budget decision to cut the jobs and save money is ratified at a special full council meeting tomorrow night . |
| 4 | The third year of the course is undertaken at a selected European Institution of Higher Education . |
| 5 | Instead , the finger is pointed at a common moral malaise due to over-liberalization and erosion of discipline ( Patten , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | This is Pitfall Number Three — ‘ Niche-marketing ’ , by which each product is targeted at a specific market . |
| 7 | It is usually more difficult to deal more effectively with a complaint if it is reported at a later date . |
| 8 | The deconcentration of administration where an activity is located at a more' local level as with field offices . |
| 9 | This task is approached at a general level , and also by reference to specific legal concepts . |
| 10 | Top juniors are capable of beginning to detect differences between two pieces of evidence , if it is presented at a simple language level , and even bias and attitudes to events . |
| 11 | Alum Pot is comprehended at a single fearful glance , and it is the intricacies of its cave system that are of most interest to sight-seeing visitors . |
| 12 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 13 | It has been in the initial stage in which wishing prevails over thinking , generalisation over observation , and in which little attempt is made at a critical analysis of existing facts or available means . |
| 14 | Finally , a good deal of inquiry is made at a local level by local authorities or local voluntary bodies attempting to assess a particular problem in the immediate area . |
| 15 | The reactor is sited at a semi-urban UK site . |
| 16 | Social benefits are not solely restricted to cash returns but include any favourable effects that may affect members of the community at large ; for example , the time saved in travelling because a hospital is sited at a particular location . |
| 17 | Epson 's 6 page per minute EPL-4000 laser printer is priced at a competitive £795 , and in its basic configuration supports the HP PCL4 language , as well Epson FX , IBM ProPrinter and Diablo 630 emulations . |
| 18 | If income above OA is taxed at a constant marginal rate , the individual is then on the schedule BC with a constant slope . |
| 19 | A very thick hard rail , which you can hardly get your hand around , is often used in the mid-sections of a race board where speed is important , since when the board is sailed at a slight angle the thick rail digs in providing more lateral resistance and thereby helping the daggerboard . |
| 20 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 21 | ( Income tax is levied at a basic rate of 25 per cent and a higher rate of 40 per cent — correct as of 1990 budget . ) |
| 22 | We have seen that VAT is levied at a common standard level , with food and a few other items exempted . |
| 23 | T V is rated at a hundred and twenty watts , right ? |
| 24 | Ueda and Akamatsu present a different view of the attractors by using stroboscopic portraits : the trajectory is sampled at a fixed phase of each driving cycle . |
| 25 | An omit ( 2 F -F c ) stereo map of the active centre with the final model ( His15 , Ala16 and Arg17 ) superimposed ; for the omit map calculation , residues 15–17 were left out of both the least-squares refinement and the map calculation ; the map is contoured at a 1.0 level . |
| 26 | The firm has parallelising compilers for Fortran and C. The Cenju-3 is offered at a monthly rental of $11,130 for the eight processor model , $271,360 for top-of-the-line 256-CPU model . |
| 27 | The firm has parallelising compilers for Fortran and C. The Cenju-3 is offered at a monthly rental of $11,130 for the eight processor model , $271,360 for top-of-the-line 256-CPU model . |
| 28 | Also available in sheet form , it is offered at a sensible price . |
| 29 | In addition , Robert Adam : Architect of Genius is offered at a special discount price to all visitors to the exhibition . |
| 30 | First , wind velocity is measured at a given observation point and refers solely to that point , for all that it may be convenient to show it on a chart as an arrow apparently extending for a long distance . |