Example sentences of "and [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 2 | Levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly correlated both in control subjects and diabetic patients , confirming that these two proteins are released from the same platelet pool and presumably at the same rate . |
| 3 | ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’ |
| 4 | At the roundabout turn left onto the by-pass and right at the next round-about signposted Horspath . |
| 5 | Palmer 's guess , recorded in his notebooks of 13 March , was that the rocks had catalysed the fusion , and so at the 7 April meeting the group discussed various metals that could be prime candidates for the process . |
| 6 | So you can look at er communication as relating to overall competence and perhaps at a stronger level than that , you could argue that erm communication determines not only the structure but also the strength and the scope of an organisation , okay ? |
| 7 | She would rely on his discretion , and perhaps at the same time in some speechless way on his support . |
| 8 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 9 | It had stopped munching away in its stall , pricked up its ears and jerked its head up and down at the powerful voice of the world-famous soprano . |
| 10 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 11 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 12 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 13 | Understanding involves an area more extensive than that of which one can be conscious ; one can not be outside and inside at the same time … |
| 14 | But in general , and especially at the highest creative level , words were redundant . |
| 15 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 16 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 17 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 18 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |
| 19 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 20 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 21 | It is in the locality ( defined in physical terms ) and not at the national or regional level that practical working-class politics are developed ( p 40 ) . |
| 22 | It is not possible to accept the belief that ‘ God pervades everything that is to be found in this universe down to the tiniest atom ’ , and not at the same time accept the idea of universal brotherhood and the essential unity and equality of all earthly creatures . |
| 23 | Each of the batsmen has had his moments , unfortunately not enough of them and not at the same time to a sufficient degree . |
| 24 | Haskett Smith had climbed the Needle and elsewhere at a respectable enough standard , but it was Godfrey Solly — a Go-fearing solicitor who became both mayor and a freeman of Birkenhead — who really started injecting iron into the soul of climbing that cold spring day on May 15 , 1882 . |
| 25 | His men followed , shooting up at the ship 's railings , and elsewhere at the other Germans in scattered positions . |
| 26 | A spokesman said the effect on borrowers will be marginal and amount to an extra £10 a month on mortgages of £30,000 and above at the typical interest rate of 8 per cent . |
| 27 | There was , for example , a downturn of 20 per cent in total enrolment of teacher trainees for secondary school and above at the National University 's Faculty of Education between 1982 and 1987 . |
| 28 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 29 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 30 | The lawyer looked at the will , then at Poole , and finally at the dead man on the floor . |