Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end result is an animal that looks very much like some kinds of oyster , although a glance at the internal feeding structures shows at once that they are brachiopods , unrelated to the bivalves they superficially resemble . |
| 2 | A GLANCE at the present political map of the South West shows almost all of the region under Conservative control . |
| 3 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 4 | When he re-crossed the clearing , he barely spared a glance at the three lifeless black shapes scattered there as he sped past . |
| 5 | Close-up of the molecular association at the crystallographic 2-fold axis . |
| 6 | Individual small bids ( up to £100,000 ) may be submitted on a non-competitive basis and the bidder receives stock at the mean accepted price . |
| 7 | Ruth jumped out of the jeep at the heavy wrought-iron gates . |
| 8 | They should be standing here now as the party of high taxation , and saying sorry to the people of Wiltshire for supporting Kenneth Clarke and his team , for supporting John Major and his team , and they should be saying sorry for the part that we pa played in lying to the electorate at the last general election . |
| 9 | And if there was any one reason which , more than any other , ensured his defeat at the ensuing general election , then surely it was the inability of the trade union movement to assume during what had therefore become the winter of discontent , the responsibility required of them as a justification of the power and influence they claimed . |
| 10 | Charles found his mother 's body in a bedroom at the luxurious thatched house . |
| 11 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 12 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 13 | For a well-designed variable-reluctance stepping motor the limitations on pole flux density and winding temperature rise are both effective ( Harris et al , 1977 ) ; the stator/rotor iron reaches magnetic saturation at the rated winding current . |
| 14 | He resigned his South Dorset seat at the 1987 general election . |
| 15 | And the president already has a seat at the future high table , the European Council . |
| 16 | Many had favoured Frankfurt , a larger town , a major business centre , and the seat at the first all-German parliament in 1848 . |
| 17 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 18 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 19 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 20 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 21 | During his visit Mr Kinnock attacked the Government for its policies on housing , and predicted that the local Conservative MP would lose his seat at the next general election . |
| 22 | Julian Davidson , 30 , unmarried , and a consultant in design , printing and advertising , was selected from a short-list of three , which included a former Treasury minister , John Maples , who lost his Lewisham West seat at the last general election . |
| 23 | In return Mafart and Prieur had their sentences commuted to three years which were to be served in exile at the French military base on the Pacific island of Hao . |
| 24 | As for national health service resources , the hon. Gentleman will know of the very large real-terms increases that have been made — in excess , in fact , of the real-terms increases promised by the Opposition at the last general election . |
| 25 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 26 | Some four years after a belated introduction to the first-class fold at the ripe old age of 27 , the quick from St Kitts did precisely that against Kent in a remarkable match at Guildford , then improved the bowling mark with 6 for 30 against Durham a fortnight later . |
| 27 | She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent . |
| 28 | The British chiefs were anxious for American aid at the earliest possible moment in the event of war with the USSR . |
| 29 | SWIMMING : Kornelia Ender , winner of four gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , will make her first appearance in Britain when she competes in the Edinburgh International Meet from April 16-18 . |
| 30 | All this — and a great deal more — has been put under one roof at the first Daily Telegraph Individual Homes Show , to be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham over Easter . |