Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 2 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 3 | The resort is only 20 years old and grabs at any chance for a celebrity to add sparkle to its budding image as the Florida of the Nineties . |
| 4 | Not to be defeated , the following year Scott started a new paper , the African Times , which was even more strongly anti-Federation and aimed at liberal-minded whites and Africans . |
| 5 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 6 | Deceptively simple and restrained at first , then juicy , almost lychees , with a salty/grassy finish . |
| 7 | Clearly differentiated from each other , they were mass-produced and targeted at different sections of a guaranteed market , who knew what they were getting . |
| 8 | This was appealing to everyone 's better instincts and most of the giants looked alert and nodded at one another , because , of course , the Gruagach were known the length and breadth of Ireland for their culture and learning . |
| 9 | Alive and alert at all times . ’ |
| 10 | Phasic rectal contraction and anal relaxation were present but exaggerated and induced at lower distending volumes than in normal subjects . |
| 11 | The family Ophiolepidinae can be distinguished by : both oral tentacle pores arising within the mouth ; the plating of the disk is usually conspicuous with large plates ; and the shape of the dental plates which is twice as long as broad and rounded at both ends ( Murakami , 1963 ) . |
| 12 | His mouth , so hard and demanding at first , was softening , moving slowly over hers . |
| 13 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 14 | First , at the θ = 0° position the motional voltage has a considerable influence on the chopping behaviour , as shown by the differences in the results for the motor stationary and operating at 1 000 steps per second . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that many professionals involved in education are rather dispirited and disillusioned at this time . |
| 16 | But he just stood still and gazed at some withered autumn flowers . |
| 17 | The traditional explanation is that all mothers with colicky babies — regardless of what sort of people they are or what else is happening in their lives — suddenly become more confident and relaxed at this point . |
| 18 | The preamble stated , at length , that the poor within the five town parishes ( St. John , St. Mary , St. Peter , St. Paul and St. Cuthbert ) were ‘ very numerous and supported at great and burthensome expense by the inhabitants of those parishes ’ . |
| 19 | For all she knew , so far from being lonely and deprived at this moment , he might well be taking his mild pleasures in his usual fashion , with some lady chanced upon by pure luck in the wilds of Anatolia . |
| 20 | Is not the Minister ashamed and horrified at those disgraceful and scandalous figures ? |
| 21 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 22 | Miss Logan was angry and distressed at such Judas-like behaviour , and expressed herself forcibly on the subject to the Armenian priest , who nodded and offered to say prayers for Miss Fergusson . |
| 23 | These used rotating discs to initiate a quasi-musical sound which was then filtered , processed and reproduced at different pitches . |
| 24 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 25 | He was pale and composed at first , his features rigidly set . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 27 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |
| 28 | ‘ I am very flattered and honoured at this appointment . |
| 29 | Clearly , in order to obtain this kind of information it is necessary to conduct three assessments under similar conditions so that they are directly comparable and spaced at equal time intervals . |
| 30 | False clarity is only another name for myth ; and myth has always been obscure and enlightening at one and the same time : always using the devices of familiarity and straightforward dismissal to avoid the labour of conceptualization . |