Example sentences of "[adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ronni took a mouthful of her drink , suddenly dry-mouthed at the thought of that .
2 and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom .
3 and all curly at the top and all curly at the bottom and then a big bow be tied round the bottom .
4 What are you curly at the back ?
5 Curly at the edges and mottled with age .
6 It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person .
7 Er , and I want to talk a little bit about er finance and I , I 've got to recognise to start with that not all money is controllable at the site level .
8 ‘ A ’ level entrants and mature students who wish to join the HND course must enrol for the three-week Conversion Course ( two weeks of which are residential at the Jordanstown campus early in September ) .
9 For all our bullshit about adventure , most of us are craven at the crutch .
10 The judge 's note of Mr. Gilberd 's evidence when he was cross-examined at the trial included the following :
11 The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 .
12 You did n't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape .
13 Was it a mania for translating bishops — represented at its oddest in the idea that it was sensible at the age of 73 to move the revered George Bell to one of these sees ?
14 Before the start — we did n't all look as fresh at the finish !
15 ‘ The club scene is quite fresh at the moment .
16 ‘ The club scene is quite fresh at the moment , it 's got exciting again .
17 The TAGH solution ( 9 ml ) was made up fresh at the time of the experiment and infused by the tail vein from 20 ml hyperdermic syringes mounted in horizontal syringe pumps set to deliver 3 ml/h .
18 ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said .
19 Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ .
20 But then , in the early '70s , Bristol was very raffish : the port connection made it a terribly druggy city , which to a student seemed very exciting at the time . ’
21 For Kings Norton they had been ‘ exciting at the time ’ , and ‘ always amicable ’ .
22 exciting at the office ?
23 The researchers also saw changes in particle distribution and that the changes in auroral formation are different at the centre .
24 Receptionist Susan Dick said : ‘ It 's totally different at the moment because it 's brand new .
25 It had all seemed so different at the start of the campaign .
26 Moving signs , while using some form of sequence information , can either be temporally redundant ( i.e. have position features which are similar at the start and finish of the sign ) or be temporally salient ( i.e. have position features which are different at the start and the finish of the sign ) .
27 But it did become something very different at the end , when Freddie went .
28 Er but but it it is not simple as in any of these matters er in that the change in the vacant dwellings difference here also has a consequential figure for dwellings different at the end .
29 Are they supposed to be like that then , different at the front ?
30 Perhaps what we read as brute coincidence , silky irony , or brave , far-sighted modernism , looked quite different at the time .
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