Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So certain privileged persons would place society under tribute , and since no doubt prices tended to be adjusted in compensation , the effect was comparable with that of shop-lifting at the present time . |
| 2 | It seems likely that this is typical of tasks at the operational level , such tasks can be performed automatically and no episodic memory for their performance is normally formed . |
| 3 | Liz spent hour pouring through hundreds of issues at the Illustrated News library and was finally rewarded with the original drawing of the dress . |
| 4 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 5 | Sort a er you know you you 're you 're happy but you 're full of go at the same time . |
| 6 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 7 | The heat stimulus was provided by a stainless steel block ( contact area , 3cm 2 ) heated in a boiling water bath and positioned on the tip of the terminal leaflet of leaf 1 of seedlings at the two-leaf stage . |
| 8 | Why on earth on the twenty fifth of August at the social services committee meeting did Labour put an amendment which accepted that there was a vacancy problem I quote from the Labourer , from from Labour amendment that er we do n't agree to closures , fair enough , that 's your position . |
| 9 | Big charity night , Thursday the twenty fifth of November at the Polish Centre , Street , Loughborough . |
| 10 | Lyricist Tim Rice , one of the forces behind worldwide musical smashes Chess , Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita , summed up : ‘ You ca n't fool hundreds of thousands , or millions of people at the same time with absolute garbage for record after record . |
| 11 | Wadkins got away with not the best of drives at the 18th but he had a gap , hit a five-iron to 45ft and then holed it across all sorts of slopes and burrows . |
| 12 | Those still with troublesome suspicions should have asked themselves how Pakistan 's fast men could have survived the Cornhill Test series had they been doing something illegal to the ball while on view not only to alert umpires and batting opponents but to thousands of onlookers at the various grounds and before the probing eye of television . |
| 13 | Villagers living near a gun school say their lives are being destroyed by the noise of thousands of shots at the biggest clay pigeon contest in England . |
| 14 | They 're frightened of women at the best of times and strong women scare them even more . |