Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles . |
| 2 | He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented . |
| 3 | The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time , an iron fist in a velvet glove . |
| 4 | So we all know that Benn is black and yet at the same time the Guardian can maintain the implicit position : ‘ Black ? |
| 5 | MY NAME is Clare Humphries and I am 17 and currently at the Blessed Robert Johnson Catholic College in Wellington . |
| 6 | Her heart was hammering hard but she knew that if she breathed slowly and deeply and looked long and intently at the comforting ritual of man and beast before her , the thudding would subside . |
| 7 | He looked long and hard at the younger executive as if trying to sum him up . |
| 8 | Secrett , aged 38 and formerly at the International Institute of Environment and Development , spent eight years with FoE in the 1980s , when he campaigned on wildlife , rain forests and the countryside . |
| 9 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 10 | As a consciousness which is objectively necessary and yet at the same time false , as the intertwining of truth and falsehood , which is just as distinct from the whole truth as it is from the pure lie , ideology belongs , if not to a modern economy , then , in any case , to a developed urban market economy . |