Example sentences of "and [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Crisis welcomes all donations , but non-perishable items are preferred , as they can be kept and used at a later date . |
| 32 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 33 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 34 | The very successful Dexion slotted angle iron appealed to a very broad market ( anyone whose used storage ) yet it was specialised for the job it had to do and sold at a good price . |
| 35 | At Exeter , another clothing centre , cheese was seized and sold at a lowered price , while the Cornish miners forced butchers to lower the price of meat , which also happened in Wolverhampton . |
| 36 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 37 | Child care is one obvious example , but there are also the many day-to-day tasks which enable households to be maintained and to function at a reasonable level of efficiency . |
| 38 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 39 | By 1973 it was in production and selling at a good profit to Jensen for the new Jensen-Healey . |
| 40 | The manometer ports were spaced every 2.5 cm and perfused at a constant pressure of 15 cm h 2 o with distilled water ( a total volume 0.3 ml/min ) . |
| 41 | We rubbed shoulders with a bride and groom at a local wedding , as anyone was allowed to wander round the church while the marriage was going on ( it was a tiny church ) . |
| 42 | Journalists sought to divide universities into ‘ premier league ’ universities which would do research and teaching at a high level , and the others . |
| 43 | Even Isay unbent a little , and grinned at a raven-haired wench when she made a lewd pluck at his staff . |
| 44 | Occasionally too he saw crows flocking and feeding at a particular part of a sheep pasture — sometimes at a dead sheep but more often at the placenta left behind where a lamb had been born . |
| 45 | The task is to follow lead car , which also appears on the screen , and travels at a varying rate . |
| 46 | Nursing staff , on the other hand , began to participate in out-patient team discussions and contributed at an early stage to identifying children and young people who might benefit from hospital admission . |
| 47 | A much more unusual kind of tonal conflict is occasionally found where composers add one piece of music to another , as in the works of Charles Ives , where the strains of a military band or an organ may be added to the orchestra , in a different key and moving at a different tempo . |
| 48 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 49 | Blockaded by Chinese troops , the leader was captured and executed at a public meeting . |
| 50 | These teeth are also shorter and set at a different angle from the other teeth . |
| 51 | All excess grass was dried and cubed at a local factory with the cubes forming an important part of the winter diet . |
| 52 | To approach it informally , suppose that we spend time and arrive at a thorough understanding of the ordinary operation of this Citroen 's windscreen wipers . |
| 53 | Having carried out the research , let's say we know where we are going and arrive at a beautiful river . |
| 54 | They would therefore be bunched up and arrive at a faster rate . |
| 55 | Following the path , continue down to the charming sunken alpinum of 1800 and arrive at a further part of the Hunger Wall . |
| 56 | Godwin also offered guidance on moral problems ; we must always look to the general good , calculate the consequences of the courses of action open to us , and arrive at an unbiased decision . |
| 57 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 58 | It 's well put together and retails at a competitive price for a four season bag . |
| 59 | The question of the balance of power will be debated and decided at a political level . |
| 60 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |