Example sentences of "and [vb -s] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 2 | The book also examines the relationship of individual artists such as Manet , Monet and Degas as well as more ‘ traditional ’ names and the Salon , and looks at critical reception to individual works . |
| 3 | Pesticides : Missing the Target says that rather than regulating pesticides on a chemical-by-chemical basis , the government should adopt a comprehensive policy that compares the costs , risks and benefits of chemical and non-chemical control and looks at appropriate pest control for sustainable agriculture . |
| 4 | Birchall ( like Rolf Biland 's passenger Kurt Waltisperg ) keeps both feet in all the time , and lies at right angles across the back of the bike . |
| 5 | Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case . |
| 6 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 7 | The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos . |
| 8 | Sybase expects System 10 products to kick into its revenue stream immediately — its current business is evenly split between sales to new customers and upgrades at existing sites . |
| 9 | Sybase expects System 10 products to kick into its revenue stream immediately — its current business is evenly split between sales to new customers and upgrades at existing sites . |
| 10 | Reductions in both of these measures have been reported in patients following infarction and subgroups at increased risk of sudden death have been reported by both Kleiger and Schwartz . |
| 11 | G. Sankoff 's ( 1980a ) collection of papers on syntactic variation in both Montreal French and the Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea employs a very wide range of approaches and includes at various points discussions of important theoretical and practical issues . |
| 12 | And there was the revolution in transport and communications which is still in progress , and which is a variable factor , producing pluses and minuses at different stages . |
| 13 | Table 1 gives hypothetical figures for consumption , savings , taxes , imports , investment , government spending and exports at different levels of national income for a simple economy . |
| 14 | The mosfet is less than 1µm wide and operates at liquid nitrogen temperatures ( -196°C ) . |
| 15 | Managing a curriculum has at least three interlocking components : ( a ) a formal statement ( more or less detailed or precise ) ; ( b ) those who deliver ( teachers ) , and who enjoy more or less autonomy , responsibility , public confidence , etc ; ( c ) a hierarchy which monitors and supervises delivery , carries varying degrees of ‘ clout ’ vis-à-vis teachers , and operates at varying degrees of distance from the classroom . |
| 16 | He clocks approximately 1hr 10mins for a 25-miler on the bike and runs at seven-minute mile pace , and is keen to improve on his weakest activity , swimming , during the summer . |