Example sentences of "and at the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 2 | And at the appointed hour a bell is heard , |
| 3 | Set at right angles to one side of the fireplace was a two-seat wooden settle , and at the other side a much larger leather couch . |
| 4 | In front of the house was a large square lawn that needed cutting , and at the far side a row of straggly flowers , mostly lupins , with some poppies and columbines . |
| 5 | The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike . |
| 6 | At one end is a row of tenements , in the middle are stone family houses and at the far end a council-run hostel for people with alcohol-related problems . |
| 7 | A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism . |
| 8 | And at the same time a paltry £5 million a year is available for all archaeological survey , conservation and management . |
| 9 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 10 | This object , discourse , is at once an empirical phenomenon recognizable without a particular theory , and at the same time a theoretical object that is amenable to analysis . |
| 11 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 12 | They hatch very quickly and at the same time a new generation of workers and soldiers emerge from the stored pupae . |
| 13 | It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West . |
| 14 | It has n't escaped anyone 's notice that a former senior official of the Great Criminal goes on the run , and at the same time a series of murders begins of the children of other former officials of the Great Criminal . |
| 15 | Whereas the earlier , Shklovskian view had been that form itself was a defamiliarizing agent , this subtler later development introduces a more dynamic and at the same time a more coherent notion of the literary work . |
| 16 | It offers an impressive teaching faculty , and at the same time a small college atmosphere . |
| 17 | Has begun , I should say , to feel a little proprietorial about Serafin , in the way we do about our masters , and at the same time a little protective . |
| 18 | I was in a café in Beaconsfield waiting for a bus , and at the next table a man and a woman were passionately discussing Ivy . |