Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Paul , 23 , of nearby Crawley , was tipped for stardom after finishing in the top 30 at the Austrian Open . |
2 | Maltman is not playing in Lagos , but Perth 's Garry Harvey is also in the top ten at the halfway stage , though he had a disappointing 73 yesterday . |
3 | A total of 35 players will be invited to attend and these will be mainly selected from the top 50 at the 1989 P.G.A . |
4 | The Trade Winds blew deficits and the workers got so bored striking at every available Sunny Day that they began working really really and blew the gaskets of many a Director 's heart . |
5 | None of the Oxford work really paralleled this European and American shift , though Marty St James 's and Anne Wilson 's Portrait of Shobana Jeyasingh ( 1990 ) shown in the Harris exhibition ( a relative of the works on show in early 1991 at the National portrait Gallery in London ) works through many related concerns . |
6 | Ecgberht also minted his own coins and was doing so by the early 770s at the latest if one of them , as has been suggested , served as a prototype for one of Charlemagne 's which must date to before c . |
7 | I am still left aghast at the astonishing numbers of totally incompatible cichlids that are sometimes crammed into remarkably small tanks . |
8 | Bert Whoriskey in third place also on 38pts missed his opportunity with an unfortunate six at the last . |
9 | Eric Brown and Christy O'Connor also needed par-4s at the last and that would have put them into a playoff with each other . |
10 | She broke off , feeling a rush of heat and cold all at the same time as Niall studied her with penetrating intensity . |
11 | Electro-acupuncture is a recent development in which the balancing of the energy flow is achieved by passing a weak electric current at a specific frequency — often 2.5 , 10 or 80 pulses per second ( Hertz or Hz ) through the indicated acupuncture points . |
12 | He had a remarkable two at the 12th where he holed out with an eight iron to come home in one over par for the closing nine holes . |
13 | God , they were like ice and yet fiery all at the same time . |
14 | The diode-capacitor network of Fig. 1 accepts low current at a high voltage and delivers higher current at a lower voltage , behaving like a step-down transformer . |
15 | There 's no doubt he can play into his late 30s at the top level . |
16 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
17 | He lifted her then , in one swift movement , and carried her to the sofa , laying her back , murmuring her name over and over , kissing again , consuming her with a passion that thrilled and left Robyn weak and yet powerful all at the same time , because she could do this to him — she could make Luke Denner groan with desire and need . |
18 | He looked a genuine danger from the home turn , but mistakes at the last two — a terrible one at the final obstacle — let him down , and he had no more to give on the flat . |
19 | Although a clash with the USSR was not considered a serious possibility until the late 1950s at the earliest , the British defence chiefs were arguing from April 1946 that the West 's ultimate aim should be to make a successful stand against a Soviet offensive as far to the east in Europe as practicable . |
20 | ‘ The president was a former Arabic interpreter in the Soviet foreign service , ’ explains Sir Patrick , who himself learned the language in the late 1950s at the Foreign Office 's Middle East Centre for Arab Studies ( MECAS ) in the hills behind Beirut . |
21 | ‘ So you met our dear D-G at the Steering Committee , ’ she went on . |
22 | He made you sound worried and puzzled and angry all at the same time , and that was right for what was happening . |
23 | She felt flushed and drained , angry and ashamed all at the same time . |
24 | Moreover , the oft-repeated statement by teachers that " children do n't understand Dewey Decimal Classification " has been consistently denied by librarians able to work with primary and middle-school pupils , let alone those at the secondary stage . |
25 | After two years of negative growth , the economy did grow in the mid 1980s at a phenomenal rate . |
26 | SCOTLAND 's Gordon Manson added a 68 to his opening 65 to take a four-stroke lead after the second round of the Nigerian Open at the Ikoyi Golf Club in Lagos . |
27 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
28 | And er but he did one did Melvin , and he he was trotting up the stairs with three men pushing you see , two at the bottom one at the top guiding it , and the top of the piano started to disappear into the staircase . |
29 | It was a silent final , one of the decisive points being David Smith 's decision to quietly take an easy single at the fourth end rather than wait for a more decisive 2 at the later end . |
30 | But as the military confrontations evaporated , the diplomatic stand-off at the Papal mission escalated yesterday , with new Vatican protests at the searching of priests and the frisking of the Papal Nunciate . |