Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In Flanders , where the count was loyal to Philip VI and perhaps alarmed at the expansionist tendencies of Hainault , Edward pursued a policy of exploiting the social and political tensions between the Flemish-speaking industrial towns and the nobility of the predominantly French-speaking countryside . |
2 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
3 | Perhaps peter Fuller 's Theoria ( 1988 ) , a call for a return to earnest Ruskinian values by a critic who had lost his faith in Modernism , contrives to be theoretical and distinctively British at the same time ; but that is the work of an art critic . |
4 | But more recently , as companies have become more and more concerned at the escalating costs of purchasing and maintaining increasingly advanced technological capabilities , fundamental questions are being asked as to how the use of IT gives a company strategic advantage — if it does [ Earl ( 1988 ) ; Bruce ( 1988 ) ] . |
5 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
6 | But also , and for architects of this period more importantly , the silhouette created by the plan had the advantage of being symmetrical and romantically complex at the same time . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I can wait the length of time it will take — but since you seem to believe that you can … ’ he added in an ironic mutter , and shrugged , the gesture oddly dismissive and yet decisive at the same time . |
8 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
9 | She 's very tough and very sweet at the same time . |