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

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1 It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons .
2 Levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly correlated both in control subjects and diabetic patients , confirming that these two proteins are released from the same platelet pool and presumably at the same rate .
3 ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’
4 At the roundabout turn left onto the by-pass and right at the next round-about signposted Horspath .
5 Palmer 's guess , recorded in his notebooks of 13 March , was that the rocks had catalysed the fusion , and so at the 7 April meeting the group discussed various metals that could be prime candidates for the process .
6 So you can look at er communication as relating to overall competence and perhaps at a stronger level than that , you could argue that erm communication determines not only the structure but also the strength and the scope of an organisation , okay ?
7 She would rely on his discretion , and perhaps at the same time in some speechless way on his support .
8 It will bob up and down at a higher rate .
9 It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano .
10 He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage .
11 ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said .
12 Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time
13 It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see
14 When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept .
15 She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor .
16 Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation .
17 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her .
18 It is not possible to accept the belief that ‘ God pervades everything that is to be found in this universe down to the tiniest atom ’ , and not at the same time accept the idea of universal brotherhood and the essential unity and equality of all earthly creatures .
19 Each of the batsmen has had his moments , unfortunately not enough of them and not at the same time to a sufficient degree .
20 His men followed , shooting up at the ship 's railings , and elsewhere at the other Germans in scattered positions .
21 A spokesman said the effect on borrowers will be marginal and amount to an extra £10 a month on mortgages of £30,000 and above at the typical interest rate of 8 per cent .
22 There was , for example , a downturn of 20 per cent in total enrolment of teacher trainees for secondary school and above at the National University 's Faculty of Education between 1982 and 1987 .
23 Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham .
24 We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so .
25 The lawyer looked at the will , then at Poole , and finally at the dead man on the floor .
26 And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful .
27 Further telephone borrowing is possible at the discretion of the Bank and usually at an increased rate of interest .
28 Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter .
29 With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution .
30 Hauser paced slowly back and forth at the far end behind his empty chair as he spoke .
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