Example sentences of "and [adj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its bronze-gold wings were tightly wrapped around its body but the long equine head turned this way and that at the end of a remarkably prehensile neck . |
| 2 | Remembering that the elderly often become quite anxious and upset at the prospect of any change or disturbance of their normal routine , however pleasing the end-result promises to be , you will need to take anything they may regard as an ‘ upheaval ’ very slowly . |
| 3 | Apart from being slimmer and healthier at the end of the diet , you should also be quite knowledgeable on the subject of diet in general , and be your own expert on the diet that 's right for you . |
| 4 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 5 | Ken 's job in the library often leaves him tired and touchy at the end of a day . |
| 6 | The informants contacted during the snowball sampling procedure were aged between 18 and 32 at the time of interview . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 9 | Secondly , it has a very chastening effect on the inspector who knows that everything he says in his report is liable to be critically examined by a review board and , if necessary , corrected for all to see — and this at the whim of those whose actions he is criticising . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But on April 1st the worriers will find that the NHS is still firmly in the public sector — financed from taxation and free at the point of delivery . |
| 13 | It will continue to be true to its founding principles , available to all and free at the point of delivery , ’ she said . |
| 14 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 15 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 16 | The Germans themselves , reported William Shirer , seemed glum and resentful at the prospect of war . |
| 17 | Three months on I er I 'm even mor angry , appalled and disgusted at the hypocrisy of the members opposite because , if they really care about the unemployed , why do n't they support this Scheme ? |
| 18 | The EC issued a statement on Feb. 7 saying that its member states were " shocked and dismayed at the government of Sudan 's continued failure … to co-operate with donors and non-governmental organizations in implementing measures to ensure that emergency supplies reach the needy populations in time " . |
| 19 | They were afraid of the closeness of the trees and dismayed at the loss of their horses . |
| 20 | Following an illness , and dismayed at the prospect of remaining a home-bound spinster , she began , when already nearly forty , to travel rough in the then hardly visited Balkans , and she described her experiences in a series of vivid and forthright books . |
| 21 | But her father the king was angry and sad at the loss of his daughter ; he asked a wise woman to find out what had become of the princess . |
| 22 | In this report we present an alysis of 472 gastric emptying studies carried out in the Department of Nuclear Medicine , Royal Liverpool University Hospital between 1981 and 1991 at the request of consultant clinicians in hospitals throughout the Mersey Region . |
| 23 | Equally relieved at the removal of any suspicion towards Dieter and delighted at the prospect of Dora 's embarrassment , she picked up her glass again and swallowed a mouthful of brandy with relish . |
| 24 | They 're just nice and comfortable at the end of the day when your feet are really swollen but nice and easy to wear but if it 's tight |
| 25 | Music TV is by and large at the bottom of the heap when it comes to programme sales . |
| 26 | In Ottoman eyes , envoys from the rulers of the Kalmuck and Uzbek tribes of western Siberia and central Asia were , at least until the great defeats of the 1680s and 1690s at the hands of the Habsburgs , more important than those from most European states ; and this attitude was slow to change . |
| 27 | He was found trapped and unconscious at the bottom of the shaft . |
| 28 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 29 | The trees grow tall , but their new leaves quickly turn sooty and diseased at the cemetery of père Lachaise . |
| 30 | But Rodrigo had made many enemies , both among the disgraced followers of the murdered Sancho ( who saw his change of allegiances as disaster ) and those at the court of Alfonso ( who saw his rise as a threat ) . |