Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 There are now several ways that you can remove unwanted hair , including shaving and depilatory creams at home , or waxing or electrolysis at a Salon .
2 It will have been noted that the rhythms of body temperature and alertness are timed very similarly with higher values in the daytime and lower values at night ( compare figs 1.2 and 1.3 ) .
3 It is true that the early coastal attacks may have been difficult to counter because of uncertainty about where they would occur , and that interception at sea depended on the availability of reliable intelligence .
4 you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead
5 I 've slept in it fer forty yer or more and I ent dead yet , and that basket at the end is Sammy 's bed , when he 's a mind . ’
6 As , however , he directed his son-in-law to apply 2s. of the yearly rent to the keeping of an obit for six years , it sounds as though his tenement was larger and that part at least of the assessment represented income from letting .
7 July , and I bet , bet my bottom dollar it was taken when Jackie and Tom were on holiday because of how their bit of front garden is all dried up and that building at the back was completed
8 The Encomiast mentions the exchange of emissaries , and Ralph Glaber , writing in Dijon before c.1030 , thought that the marriage followed an agreement with Richard , and that Cnut at some stage sent the Normans military help , while the Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni , written in the Norman abbey of St Wandrille c.1053-4 , says that the match had Richard 's consent and support .
9 Alex Mair said : ‘ I could argue that what you are killing is n't a child and that repugnance at an act is n't evidence of its immorality . ’
10 The buses run on batteries which have to be charged fifteen minutes every hour and eleven hours at night .
11 Raynsford , 25 , of St Johns Road , Clacton , and Kemp , 24 , of The Avenue , Clacton , have both been charged with armed robbery at John Stiffs estate agents in St Osyth and armed robbery at a Chinese takeaway in Coppins Road .
12 You stay in a suite at Manila 's most elegant and historic hotel at the attractive rate of US$190++ .
13 Or do nonhuman animals experience any thoughts and subjective feelings at all ?
14 Insofar as good credit scoring systems weigh up an individual 's characteristics and background in a way which truly and accurately does reflect wide experience of similar characteristics and background , these systems can discriminate between good and bad risks more reliably than non-scoring systems which make a more partial and subjective stab at the same target .
15 Early in 1307 Bruce returned to the mainland near his estate and possible birthplace at Turnberry .
16 With the $10,000 she received from the sale of Let Me Speak , her harrowing account of life and political struggle at Siglo XX , she has been able to buy a two-roomed house in the poor neighbourhood of Hayrakasa .
17 Social and political conflict at best is erroneous , and at worst contrived .
18 These brabanzonen , as they were known , were a growing social and political problem at this time and Alexander had even issued a decree forbidding their use .
19 In mid-June Conde had been questioned by police in connection with the discovery of parcels of weapons and political leaflets at the airport ; his summons provoked clashes between his supporters and the security forces , after which some 60 people were arrested and all demonstrations in the capital banned .
20 The boundaries of that part of the working classes — it might overlap with the independent craftsmen , shopkeeper and even the small entrepreneur — which was coming to be recognised as a social and political force pretty well coincided with those of the world of clubs — Mutual Aid Societies , fraternal benevolent orders ( generally with strong rituals ) , choirs , gymnastic or sports clubs , even voluntary religious organisations at one extreme , labour unions and political associations at the other .
21 Its perpetration is a most despicable and worrying event and one that suggests that civilian rather than military or security targets guarded by armed men , may suit the IRA from a tactical and political standpoint at this juncture .
22 Edward 's handling of the commons on matters of taxation showed his pragmatism and political skills at their best .
23 The MA in Social and Political Thought at Sussex
24 In coming years we have a unique opportunity to see mechanisms of social and political development at work .
25 He does this by making the labour process , and the shift from Fordism to neo-Fordism , more central to his analysis and by bringing in social and political forces at every stage .
26 For precisely these reasons , there was a well-developed sub-stratum of social and political control at local level in the kingdom at large ; and when people are accustomed to running affairs without any monarch at all , then the advent of a female ruler might well not be a substantial cause for concern .
27 If it is true that ‘ Political power and the effective control of communication go together ’ and political power at a local level may concern formation of council or school policy ; equally , consumer power depends on knowledge for choice and accountability while producer power needs control of the base materials , including know-how .
28 For example , it has often been observed ( by no means only by Marxists ) that the ideas of Beccaria — and the Enlightenment generally — were linked to the interests of the bourgeois class who were gaining in economic and political power at the time but still needed legal protection against the old ruling class , the landowning aristocracy who retained a corrupt control of the levers of state power ( Beccaria , 1963 : xxi ; Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 1 ) .
29 When the Supreme Court decided in July to weaken the nationwide constitutional right to abortion granted in 1973 , political pundits predicted a flurry of abortion-restricting legislation and political blood-letting at state level .
30 Children may move between the independent and maintained sectors at different stages of their school career ; many different patterns of schooling are possible , some of these are illustrated in Figure 5.15 .
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