Example sentences of "and [noun] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Enhancements and Features User Interface Improved GUI interface : dialog boxes , combo boxes , scroll bars , 3-D looks Button Bar , push-button icons , rulers , zoom icon , colour palettes New help system , edit nine drawings/presentations simultaneously New charting module with charting gallery Surface charts , 3-D charts , column pies Text charts , tables , organizational charts More options : grids , tick marks , 3-D view Data entry — Spreadsheet-like chart data editing ( insert , move , and copy column widths ) Data options : types , formulae , sorting Split-screen mode : view data and chart at same time on same screen . |
2 | He arranged the coins neatly in their denominations on top of the note , halfpennies and pennies at one corner , sixpences and shillings at another , two florins at a third , and a half-crown covering the last unanchored corner . |
3 | Gary Callander , the former Scotland hooker , is in cracking form again and , with John Jeffrey staying down and grafting at second row , they took particular encouragement from their scrummaging in an 18-29 defeat by the powerhouse Heriot 's . |
4 | Michael Chisholm , in discussing the siting of settlements , has shown a general consistency in the use of land around settlements , with paddocks close at hand , arable immediately adjacent , and resources such as pasture and woodland at some distance . |
5 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
6 | Towards the end of the war I realised that I had had both friends and enemies at Southern Command . |
7 | The truth is it 's never been easier to pack your sack and experience at first hand the sensational scenery and classic challenges across the Channel . |
8 | Then most vividly he had described his own studies there at the ancient university of Heidelberg , capturing the attention of the two lordling drunkards by directing his talk not to his studies of the classics , philosophy , German language and metaphysics , but to the duelling societies , their codes and practices , feuds and meetings at misty dawn — sword fights to the death … |
9 | This information is also automatically loaded into the testing and repair database at this time and is available for checking and inspection at any time . |
10 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
11 | Unfortunately she was as bitchy as she was beautiful , lashing out with teeth and hooves at any human who came near her , and bucking them off if they tried to get on her back . |
12 | Franca was relieved that Alison had given up her guilty peepings and hintings and attempts at relevant conversation ; only now her calmness and at-homeness were proving equally maddening . |
13 | In factual works , style plays a more easily definable role , and textual sampling and attempts at stylistic evaluation by librarians are more pertinent . |
14 | Mr Brady said : ‘ Audiences at 1.15am are tiny and programmes at that time attract very little advertising revenue . |
15 | It is the least known and most obscure phase of the painter 's life because , despite all my father 's efforts to promote Modigliani and to make the quality of his works known , he was his only real friend and protector , his only admirer and buyer at that time . |
16 | Marchers and speakers at this year 's demonstration called for immediate British withdrawal from Ireland and for self determination for Irish people . |
17 | It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time . |
18 | Different clinics use differently designed weight charts but they all show the percentage of boys and girls who are at a particular height and weight at each age ( Tanner and Whitehouse 1975 ) . |
19 | We showed how in certain areas — for example home-school links , the curriculum , and whole-school management — clear policies can be appropriate and helpful ; and how in other areas — notably classroom practice — advisory staff seemed eager to prescribe in some detail how teachers should organize their classrooms and manage their teaching , a focus for policy and action at that level which seemed rather less appropriate . |
20 | Good gall bladder contraction after breakfast is important because gall bladder bile has the highest cholesterol saturation index and concentration at that time and cholesterol crystals might precipitate easily . |
21 | She knew that it was liable to come swishing down on her hands and legs at any moment . |
22 | In terms of similarly world-beating deposits , there is nickel in New Caledonia ( the mining establishment once ruled the island in the name of France ) ; aluminium at Weipa on the Cape York peninsula of Queensland ; iron in the Hamersley Range of Western Australia ; lead , zinc and silver at Broken Hill ; uranium near Darwin and in the tiny Queensland town called Mary Kathleen ; copper and lead at Mount Isa , whose smokestack is the tallest structure in northern Australia . |
23 | Just how strongly Eliot was spurred on to emphasize the connections between sex and religion at this time is seen in ‘ The Hippopotamus ’ ( 1917 ) which contains one of his most shocking jokes : |
24 | 25-year-old Michael Johnson , who was serving a seven-year sentence for possession of firearms , robbery , burglary and theft at nearby Bullingdon Prison , was returning there from Reading Magistrates Court . |
25 | But importantly ( as behaviour proves more complex ) , the theory allows attribution of belief and intention at higher order , even in the absence of language . |
26 | The yellow brain fungus Tremella mesenterica is conspicuous on dead twigs and branches at this time . |
27 | Figures given in various reports and signals at this time range from " 20,000 " to " 30,000 " to " 40,000 " ( it was not until 18 May that a reasonably accurate total was available ) . |
28 | This study has yet far to go and it would be unwise to be too dogmatic about sources and influences at this stage . |
29 | Table 3.6 shows each major ownership group 's share of titles and circulation at 10 year intervals . |
30 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |