Example sentences of "and [vb -s] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aspirates were immediately treated with anticoagulant ( 9:1 v/v 10% EDTA ) and centrifuges at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | PHIL EVANS FINDS OUT WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT AND LOOKS AT FIVE MACHINES COVERING THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF FEATURES AND PRICE . |
| 5 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Once the marketmaker 's spread and the broker 's commission are taken into account the investor will face a sizeable loss if he or she buys and exercises at these prices . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The total form of a person 's language that he knows and uses at any stage of his development . |
| 12 | In general , growth is a moulding process , and occurs at later stages of development when the main body plan has already been laid down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It does not matter why a State has failed to become a party to a treaty , or whether it is eligible to become a party and intends at some time to do so . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dobb 's book , Save the Dolphins , describes a lengthy and tender relationship that developed between Donald and a woman trainer Maura Mitchell , which included croonings and cuddles at each meeting , during which Donald would shut his eyes . |
| 21 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The driver honks and honks at each stop ; peers into the distance , giving the latest comer a chance . |
| 24 | Compared to a Sun Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb NFS writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 25 | Compared to a Sparcstation 10 it did 130Mb Network File System writes at 158 seconds versus 971 seconds and reads at 130 seconds versus 144 seconds . |
| 26 | However , development was enhanced after about 4500 B.P. There is also evidence for increased storms and winds at this time elsewhere in the Outer ( Simpson , 1966 ) and Inner ( Birks , 1987 ) Hebrides and from Orkney ( e.g. Keatinge and Dickson , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The mosfet is less than 1µm wide and operates at liquid nitrogen temperatures ( -196°C ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |