Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brushes do last fairly well , but the little plastic discs need replacing when they get torn or jagged at the edges . |
| 2 | Anyone who is 71 years old or older at the date of the accident . |
| 3 | Anyone who is 71 years old or older at the date of the accident . |
| 4 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 5 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 6 | Still fresh and green at the back end , it could provide a juicy supplement to the diet of a early calving cow , or for the smallholder 's animals newly brought in to the byre for the winter . |
| 7 | Both of the leaf spots common in waterlilies have a similar effect , the foliage becoming brown and dry at the edges , eventually crumbling and wasting away . |
| 8 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 9 | He still let his eyes run over her and Maggie was both embarrassed and shocked at the look in them . |
| 10 | THE government may have a majority as high as 10 at the end of the crucial Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty tonight . |
| 11 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 12 | Just as well , for with the state the country was in people would be wary of a stranger who 'd come knocking on their door at an hour when they might be warm and snug at the gates of dreamland . |
| 13 | Mr Lamont looked uncomfortable and embarrassed at the party , attended by the press , on Wednesday night . |
| 14 | Everything became one long dreary goodbye as parents came to thank Cassie for all she had done for their children , and the children themselves became sad and fretful at the thought that soon Cassie would no longer be their teacher . |
| 15 | The sun made Endill feel sad but excited at the journey ahead and he was unable to keep still before his departure . |
| 16 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 17 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 18 | Screams from a nearby interrogation block have been heard loud and clear at the desk of the duty sergeant at Castlereagh without causing anyone to intervene to stop the maltreatment . |
| 19 | 8/Face sketched in lightly , eyes are lowered as is the custom in San'a to be as demure as possible if not a little apprehensive and afraid at the prospect of meeting your husband for the first time on your wedding night . |
| 20 | All seemed normal and quiet at the aerodrome and the sun was beginning to set . |
| 21 | There was a patch of sticky fluid on the carpet , dry and black at the edges , deep red in the middle . |
| 22 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 23 | He would probably have been less confused or surprised at the implementation of some of his other priorities . |
| 24 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 25 | And patients feel confused and angry at the differences between hospitals , unsure whether they are enduring isolation unnecesarily or being exposed to undue risk . |
| 26 | During the last quarter of the nineteenth century , the needs of the sick and disabled at the workhouse occupied more and more of the time and energies of the officers and the Board of Guardians to whom they were responsible . |
| 27 | He says he 's bewildered and surprised at the sentence . |
| 28 | HAIR CONDITION : Fine and dry at the ends |
| 29 | The Germans themselves , reported William Shirer , seemed glum and resentful at the prospect of war . |
| 30 | Mountains in the tropics are like the world in miniature : hot wet forest at the bottom , cold and tundra-like at the top , and everything in between . |