Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , it is good enough to say that light entering one end of the fibre will reflect repeatedly along its length and eventually emerge at the other end ( see Fig 4 ) .
2 HERE in the West , episode two of Blackeyes ( BBC-2 ) hardly advances the narrative at all and slowly picks at the same psychological scabs .
3 So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge .
4 Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment .
5 Also , the needles on the needlebed ( plus their latches ) must be in good condition with the sinker posts in an upright position and not bent at a drunken angle !
6 The returns for Lothingland and Mutford hundreds , Suffolk , permit a rare glimpse of the mechanics by which many assessments were revalued , under the heading ‘ The namys of those personys forgotyn and not charged at the last subsidie which are to be charged now ’ .
7 She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps .
8 I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with .
9 Remember that 10 per cent of the population have a reading problem and just look at the low demands made in reading skills by the popular tabloid press .
10 The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building .
11 He took this in suddenly one morning as he was charging a girl the duty on a camera , hitting the thought like an air pocket and ludicrously yawning at the same time with his mouth shut so that the girl noticed his face lengthening like a mule 's .
12 She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford .
13 Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ?
14 Melissa was becoming more and more irritated at the constant references to Bonard .
15 He studied at Ealing School of Art , Wimbledon School of Art , Goldsmith 's College and later taught at a comprehensive school in Essex .
16 But broadcasting costs are more volatile than other costs and also rise at a faster rate so that even a licence fee increase which keeps up with general costs is an actual real decrease in its total value .
17 Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music .
18 sales and marketing manager for Whirpool Commercial , looks at the hygiene regulations that apply to the caterer , with particular reference to the Food Safety Act , highlighting the importance of using a commercial , rather than domestic microwave , and also looking at the economic and environmental benefits offered by a waste compactor .
19 Receiving the award on behalf of the company , John Stewart , Managing Director , was delighted with the achievement ‘ It gives additional confidence to a range that was already well prepared and carefully targeted at a specific market ’ , he said .
20 Telex messages can be typed direct into the teleprinter 's memory and automatically transmitted at a preset time .
21 It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) .
22 The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 .
23 They buy always from fellow dealers , never at auction , and now exhibit at a dozen major fairs each year .
24 Somehow you can put up with and even smile at a stranger or workmate 's silly antics and daft behaviour , but when someone close to you starts rubbing you up the wrong way you 'll explode .
25 To score points , the techniques must be cleanly performed and strongly focused at the appropriate target areas .
26 The fiction was that they could be honestly and legitimately equalized at the same quota figure , even though Haughey had nearly three times as many first-preference votes as Brady , and even though almost half of the votes by which Brady reached the quota were votes of second or lower preference , culled by transfers from nine other candidates in nine counts .
27 In addition to his architectural and archaeological activities , he was also an accomplished artist , and frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy .
28 Researchers have recently discovered small regions of genetic material in animal cells that can become detached from the chromosomes , enjoy an independent existence for a while , and then re-integrate at a different chromosomal location .
29 Not surprisingly , therefore , import penetration increased from the mid 1960s onwards and then moved at an alarming rate in the early 1970s .
30 The corridor they had travelled along had turned an abrupt corner and then ended at a blank , curved wall .
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