Example sentences of "who [vb -s] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
2 | Yet more importantly , the upper levels of the program have no access to the levels below them : the programmer who writes at the topmost , or accessible , level has no need to know how his program is being translated , even though for certain purposes he might wish to find out . |
3 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
4 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
5 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
6 | This often provokes a negative reaction from the other person who bridles at the explicit disagreement and therefore fails to listen to the reasons — indeed , is highly likely to interrupt the reasons rather than hear them out . |
7 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
8 | Sharon , who works at a miniature models factory in Wrexham , said : ‘ I have been teasing him for about two weeks for not being romantic but he has shown me I was wrong . |
9 | I remember , several weeks after my successful interview , discussing my impending change of job at a party with a neighbour who works at the local university . |
10 | Everton can also point to a strong international element in Leena Chagla , an Indian doctor who works at the Royal and keeps goal for them , as well as two German girls , Sylke Klaus and Gabi Von Voight . |
11 | one thinks of bread , cheese , butter , tea and coffee from City firms ; car loads of books from Roseburn ; a pressure cooker from a member moved by the despairing note in one of our appeals ; a whole set of Carlyles 's works , which was eventually sold to the new Carlyle library in Haddington ; fascinating nautical ephemera from the Manse ; a huge pile of oil paintings of Edinburgh from a young artist who works at the National Gallery ; even geological specimens and polished stones from a lady in our Abbeyfield House ; and of course our ‘ stock in trade ’ , those exciting grocer 's boxes of ‘ mixed ’ books . |